1. Cataloguing in Wales: Are there
professional benefits to exploring
regionality?
Karen F. Pierce
Cardiff University
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group
Conference 2012

2. Group social identity
• “…a social category…into which one falls,
and to which one feels one belongs,
provides a definition of who one is in terms
of the defining characteristics of the
category – a self-definition that is a part of
the self-concept.” Hogg, Terry & White
(1995, 259)

3. “A manifestation of cataloguers”
@Heather_Jardine
“An authority of cataloguers”
@HelBader

4. Cataloguing in Wales
Wales
Population: 3, 063,500
Approx 20 % Welsh speakers
How many cataloguers…?

5. Geographical problems
• Mountain ranges Llandrindod Wells –
dividing country awkward for everyone!
• Travel North to South
by train via England
• Rural areas
• Travelling to sessions
in England/Scotland
not always practical

6. Conversations with Cataloguers in
Wales Conference

7. All Wales cataloguing group?
• Regular meetings • E-mail discussion list
• Training sessions • Exchange of ideas
held in Wales
• Visits
• Bi-annual conference
• Support network
• Social events

8. AWHILES partnership
(location of libraries)

9. AWHILES cataloguing (1)
Cataloguing Issues
• 27 libraries +
university libraries
• Lack of cataloguing
knowledge
• Only one AWHILES
library has
cataloguing staff

10. AWHILES cataloguing (2)
Cataloguing solutions
• AWHILES cataloguer
• Training sessions
• Support via email and
phone
• Monthly reports to
check

11. AWHILES cataloguing summary
• 27 NHS libraries + university libraries on
one catalogue
• Wide geographic spread of libraries
• Quality control maintained by university
• Close working relationships and support
• Benefits for roving user groups (students
and doctors on placement)

12. All-Wales higher education LMS
• JISC-funded Library Systems
Shared Services Feasibility
Study
http://blogs.cf.ac.uk/sharedlms/
• 12 Universities plus National
Library of Wales as
supporting member

13. To conclude…

14. PierceKF@Cardiff.ac.uk
@Darklecat