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What’s missing from the catalog?
Why copy cataloging is still needed. . .
John Thompson, Systems Librarian and Theological Cataloger
The Best Cataloger is a Frustrated Library User:
Cataloging Failure and the Underutilization of Library
Resources
Part One: Samples of inadequate subject
headings and Dewey call numbers
Part Two: What do we do about this?
Is this a fallacy in a theological library?
Subject headings and call numbers in bib
records from LCC, PCC, and OCLC do not need to
be reviewed before they are added to our
catalogs.
Have we been unjustifiably optimistic about the
capacity of unedited MARC records to direct our
patrons to the desired titles in our collections?
Part One:
Samples of inadequate subject
headings and Dewey call
numbers
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BT730.5 .B73 2014
253/.2 $2
Fail : finding hope and grace in the midst of
ministry failure / J.R. Briggs ; foreword by
Eugene H. Peterson.
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Downers Grove, Illinois :
InterVarsity Press,
[2014]
•
What do we do when we've failed? Some ministries
are shipwrecked by moral failures like affairs or
embezzlement. But for most of us, the sense of failure is
more ordinary: disillusionment, inadequacy, declining
budgets, poor decisions, opposition, depression, burnout.
Many pastors are deeply broken and wounded, and we
come to doubt that God has any use for us. J.R. Briggs,
founder of the Epic Fail Pastors Conference, knows what
failure feels like. He has listened to pastors who were
busted in a prostitution sting or found themselves
homeless when ejected from ministry. With candid
vulnerability, Briggs explores the landscape of failure,
how it devastates us and how it transforms us. Without
offering pat answers or quick fixes, he challenges our
cultural expectations of success and gives us permission
to grieve our losses. Somehow, in the midst of our pain,
we are better positioned to receive the grace of healing
and restoration.
Failure (Psychology)
Pastoral theology.
Religious aspects
Christianity.
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BV4647.S9 W54 2007
253/.2
Preventing ministry failure : a ShepherdCare
guide for pastors, ministers and other
caregivers / Michael Todd Wilson and Brad
Hoffmann
Downers Grove, Ill. :
IVP Books,
©2007.
•
Introduction: Why preventing ministry failure
is so important--Intimacy : connecting to the heart
of successful pastoring--Calling : the power for
effectiveness in ministry--Stress management :
avoiding ineffectiveness and burnout--Boundaries :
protecting what matters most--Re-creation : the
fuel to re-energize ministry--People skills :
managing our most valuable resource--Leadership
skills : setting ministers apart from the rest of the
sheep.
Caring
Religious aspects
Helping behavior
Christianity.
Christianity.
Religious aspects
Pastoral care.
Clergy
Conduct of life.
Clergy
Office.
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BT730.5 .B73 2014
253/.2 $2
Fail : finding hope and grace in the midst of ministry
failure / J.R. Briggs ; foreword by Eugene H. Peterson.
•
Downers Grove, Illinois :
InterVarsity Press,
[2014]
•
What do we do when we've failed? Some ministries are shipwrecked by
moral failures like affairs or embezzlement. But for most of us, the sense of
failure is more ordinary: disillusionment, inadequacy, declining budgets, poor
decisions, opposition, depression, burnout. Many pastors are deeply broken and
wounded, and we come to doubt that God has any use for us. J.R. Briggs,
founder of the Epic Fail Pastors Conference, knows what failure feels like. He
has listened to pastors who were busted in a prostitution sting or found
themselves homeless when ejected from ministry. With candid vulnerability,
Briggs explores the landscape of failure, how it devastates us and how it
transforms us. Without offering pat answers or quick fixes, he challenges our
cultural expectations of success and gives us permission to grieve our losses.
Somehow, in the midst of our pain, we are better positioned to receive the
grace of healing and restoration.
Failure (Psychology)
Religious aspects
Christianity.
Pastoral theology.
Clergy--Mental health.
Church management.
Clergy--Job stress.
Burn out (Psychology)--Religious aspects-Christianity.
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BV4647.S9 W54 2007
253/.2
Preventing ministry failure : a ShepherdCare
guide for pastors, ministers and other caregivers
/ Michael Todd Wilson and Brad Hoffmann
Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, ©2007.
•
Introduction: Why preventing ministry failure is so
important--Intimacy : connecting to the heart of successful
pastoring--Calling : the power for effectiveness in ministry--Stress
management : avoiding ineffectiveness and burnout--Boundaries :
protecting what matters most--Re-creation : the fuel to re-energize
ministry--People skills : managing our most valuable resource-Leadership skills : setting ministers apart from the rest of the
sheep.
Caring Religious aspects Christianity.
Helping behavior Religious aspects Christianity.
Pastoral care.
Clergy Conduct of life.
Clergy Office.
Burn out (Psychology)--Religious aspects-Christianity.
Clergy--Mental health.
Clergy--Job stress.
Failure (Psychology)--Religious aspects-Christianity.
Helping behavior--Religious aspects-Christianity.
Pastoral theology.
Pastoral care.
253.2
Clergy--Conduct of life.
253.2
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A center in the cyclone : twenty-first
century clergy self-care / Bruce Epperly.
Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
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Pastors today are overwhelmed by the perfect storm
of too many responsibilities, too few resources, and too
rapid congregational, cultural, and technological changes.
Many of them confess that the cares of modern ministry
have nearly choked the life out of their holy service. Here
is a resource for integrated personal and professional
transformation and healing for pastors; better equipping
them to be effective spiritual leaders for the long haul of
professional ministry. . . .. Spiritual leaders need to
sharpen their mission, administration, outreach, and
preaching skills, but they also need to deepen their
commitments to spiritual growth and self-care practices
to insure healthy and effective ministry over the long
haul.
Pastoral theology.
Burn out (Psychology)--Religious aspects-Christianity.
Clergy--Mental health.
Clergy--Job stress.
Pastoral theology.
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253.2 E644c 2014
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253
Mad church disease : overcoming the
burnout epidemic / Anne Jackson.
Grand Rapids, Mich. :
Zondervan,
©2009.
Prologue: No pity parties here--Introduction--Part
I: How the burnout epidemic is killing the greatest
call--Comparing mad cow disease to mad church
disease--The emergency--Part II: Am I at risk? :
examining risk factors and symptoms--Internal
risk factors--External risk factors--Symptoms--Part
III: Getting better--Five principles of recovery-Part IV: A path to health and recovery--Spiritual
health--Physical health--Emotional health-Relational health--Processing through pain-Epilogue: Resting in an abundant life-"Mad Church Disease is a lively, informative, and potentially
life-saving resource for who would like to understand,
prevent, or treat the epidemic of burnout in church culture."-Jacket.
Burn out (Psychology)
Christianity.
Clergy--Job stress.
Church work.
Clergy--Mental health.
Pastoral theology.
Church management.
253.2
Religious aspects
261.8325 M996w 2011
Walking with the poor : principles
and practices of transformational
development / Bryant L. Myers.
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, ©2011.
Charting the course -- Development--the origins of
an idea -- Theology, poverty, and development -Poverty and the poor -- Perspectives on development
-- Toward a Christian understanding of
transformational development -- Development
practice : principles and practitioners -- Designing
programs for transformation -- Learning toward
transformation -- Christian witness and
transformational development.
Church work with the poor--Catholic
Church.
Poverty--Religious aspects--Catholic
Church.
Faith and learning--International
studies.
Economic development--Religious
aspects--Christianity.
Humanitarianism--Religious aspects-Christianity.
Poverty--Religious aspects-Christianity.
301.0924 L334s 2014
The slain God : anthropologists and
the Christian faith / Timothy Larsen.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Throughout its entire history, the discipline of
anthropology has been perceived as undermining,
or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its
most prominent theorists have been agnostics who
assumed that ethnographic findings and theories
had discredited religious beliefs. On the other
hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists
have been Christians, including E.E. EvansPritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith
Turner. In this groundbreaking work, Timothy
Larsen examines the point where doubt and faith
collide with anthropological theory and evidence.
Religion and science.
Anthropology of religion.
Christianity and culture.
Anthropologists--Great Britain.
Anthropologists--Religious life.
253 O86 2010
Managing polarities in congregations :
eight keys for thriving faith
communities / Roy M. Oswald and Barry
Johnson.
Herndon, VA : Alban Institute, c2010.
Why managing polarities is important to
congregational health -- Tradition and innovation -Spiritual health and institutional health -Management and leadership -- Strong clergy
leadership and strong lay leadership -- Inreach and
outreach -- Nurture and transformation -- Making
disciples : easy process and challenging process -Call and duty -- Appendix A: Polarities in small
groups -- Appendix B: Methods for working with
polarities in groups -- Appendix C: Polarity principles
-- Appendix D: References on the importance of
polarities.
Church.
Church controversies.
Church management.
Pastoral theology.
BT821.3 $b .G75 2014
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Decreation : $b the last things of all
creatures / $c Paul J. Griffiths.
Waco : $b Baylor University Press, $c [2014]
Death is not the end -- either for humans or for all
creatures. But while Christianity has obsessed over
the future of humanity, it has neglected the ends
for nonhuman animals, inanimate creatures, and
angels. In Decreation, Paul J. Griffiths explores
how orthodox Christian theology might be
developed to include the last things of all
creatures. . . .Griffiths imagines heaven as an
endless, repetitively static, communal, and
enfleshed adoration of the triune God in which
angels, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects
each find a place.
Eschatology.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
Future life--Christianity.
Eschatology.
Animals--Religious aspects-Christianity.
Angels.
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HV640.5.K67 K567 2015
362.87B 23
Under the same sky : from starvation in North
Korea to salvation in America / Joseph Kim ; with
Stephan Talty.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
"A searing story of starvation and survival in North
Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by
activists and Christian missionaries, and success in
the United States thanks to newfound faith and
courage.”
Refugees--Korea (North)--Biography.
Immigrants--United States--Biography.
Victims of famine--Korea (North)
Human rights--Korea (North)
Rescue work--China.
Christian ethics--China.
Kim, Joseph, 1990Defectors--Korea (North)--Biography.
Communism--Korea (North)--History.
Refugees--Korea (North)--Biography.
Immigrants--United States--BiographyVictims of
famine--Korea (North)
Human rights--Korea (North)
Rescue work--China.
Christian ethics--China.
Kim, Joseph, 1990-
951.93051092
OCLC copy
DS934.6.L44 A3 2015
951.93051
The girl with seven names : a North
Korean defector's story / Hyeonseo Lee
with David John.
London : William Collins, 2015.
In 1997 the author, aged 17, escaped North Korea
for China. Twelve years later she returned to the
North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit
her mother and brother to South Korea in a very
costly and dangerous journey. This eloquent book
offers the first credible account of ordinary life in
North Korea and gives an extraordinary insight
into the life under one of the world's most ruthless
and secretive dictatorships.
Lee, Hyeonseo.
Defectors--Korea (North)--Biography.
Defectors--Korea (South)--Biography.
Communism--Korea (North)--History.
Lee, Hyeonseo.
Defectors--Korea (North)--Biography.
Defectors--Korea (South)--Biography.
Communism--Korea (North)--History.
Refugees--Korea (North)--Biography.
What is your experience
with the quality of bib
records? Has anyone found
a consistently good source?
Categorizing Inadequate Cataloging
• Records on similar topics don’t have similar
subject headings and call numbers
• The main topic of the book is not reflected in
the headings and call numbers
• Headings are too general
PART TWO:
A frustrated librarian’s dilemma
1. Cataloging and processing incoming titles
is potentially more expensive than the
cost of acquiring them.
2. This is an issue that is largely invisible.
When informed copy cataloging is cut
back, no one notices.
3. The problem seems to be so big that no
one wants to do anything about it. Is this a
non-issue? Is it just too late to do anything
about it?
4.
5.
6.
Is it enough to Enhance bad records? What about
multiple editions and formats? Won’t being
conscientious about enhancing records decrease
“productivity”?
Assigning subject headings can be seen as a
subjective activity. It is also sometimes oriented to
the needs of local patrons. In order to get the
attention of the library community, is it necessary
to develop some objective criteria for what are and
are not good subject headings? Or is this another
exercise in futility?
OCLC’s investment in quality control seems to be
largely oriented toward duplicate detection and
correction of headings. Is there a different model of
quality control?
Tendency to view copy
cataloging as superfluous, a
way to achieve “economies
of workflow”
Importing large sets of bib records:
Ebooks, Video, Audio
How much do we edit them?
Is it important to have appropriate subject
headings assigned to them?
Data Driven
Economies of Scale
Balanced with
Local needs and resources
“Shelf-ready books”?
Patron-driven activism
“The best librarian is a frustrated
library user”
The librarian as information
intermediary
The librarian as the patron’s
advocate
What can we do?
…in our own institutions
…in ATLA
…in the library community