Need for Catalogers

• Libraries have three assets: collections, staff, and the architecture of bibliographic control � like a three-legged stool.

• Someone has to provide the architecture of bibliographic control.

• Job ads � 166 ads for jobs requiring cataloging knowledge appeared in 151 days from just one source.

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Michael Gorman, Our Enduring Values. (Chicago: American Library Association, 2000), p. 112 � talks about 3-legged stool.