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III.A. Organizational Management
III.A.1. Administrative Awareness (Score: 3.12)
- Determine how the cataloging and metadata department fits into the larger organizational structure and its priorities
III.A.2. Communication and Workflow Issues (Score: 3.12)
- Communicate with upper management and other units to best support the flow of cartographic materials
- Develop appropriate workflow(s)
- Monitor workflow(s), and revise as necessary
- Communicate with the head map librarian or curator, other units, and upper management to apply priorities
III.A.3. Training and Documentation (Score: 3.12)
- Support unit procedures by training others where needed and appropriate
- Create, review and update local documents about cartographic materials cataloging policies and procedures
III.B. Resource Management
III.B.1. Cataloging Standards [Priority: High] (Score: 3.53)
- Stay abreast of national and international standards
- Develop local practices based on system requirements
III.B.2. Cataloging Resources [Priority: High] (Score: 3.53)
- Learn, understand, and appropriately apply cataloging rules, rule interpretations and subject analysis techniques
- Identify and use appropriate hardcopy and online resources for cartographic materials cataloging in all formats
- Apply classification schedules or schemas and create call numbers
- Apply accurate subject headings
- Apply accurate genre/form terms
- Document local cataloging practices for cartographic materials
III.B.3. Knowledge of the Creation and Distribution Systems [Priority: High] (Score: 3.56)
- Understand map production and reproduction processes and types
- Understand the roles of map publishers, distributors, cartographers and other contributors
- Search for and identify matching resource descriptions from external databases, download and import record(s), and edit record(s) for local use
- Search for and identify matching existing resource descriptions from internal databases and edit and update them
III.B.5. Creation of Resource Descriptions (“original cataloging”) [Priority: High] (Score: 3.53)
- Understand theory and practice of descriptive cataloging as it applies to cartographic materials
- Correctly identify the title proper
- Correctly provide for second, alternative and/or variant titles
- Understand scale and how it functions
- Understand map projections and correctly apply projection information when needed
- Understand the coordinate system and apply correct latitude and longitude values when given on the map
- Understand the coordinate system and apply correct latitude and longitude values when supplying coordinates
- Interpret and then provide correct and accurate information about the physical characteristics of cartographic items
- Know and apply the correct techniques for measuring cartographic resources
- Determine the correct form of heading for personal and corporate names and/or uniform titles
- Train for, and actively participate in, cooperative cataloging programs
- Maintain familiarity with emerging evolutions in cataloging and metadata
- Understand the theory and practice of metadata schemes used in geospatial environments
- Create geospatial metadata, and other metadata as needed
- Provide metadata for institutional repositories and digital libraries
- Create or prepare metadata for use in Linked Data environments
- Measure quality and quantity of cataloging output
- Produce reports and recommendations to support organizational needs
III.D. Technological Applications
III.D.1. Cataloging-specific Technologies (Score: 2.79)
- Learn and apply supportive technologies including macros, ILS cataloging features, and other special technologies
- Participate in the selection and testing of new ILS
- Stay abreast of metadata applications and uses
- Understand the relationship of interoperability or crosswalks among metadata standards