Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 資訊與圖書館學系 === 89 === This study aims at the Cataloging-Outsourcing mechanism of Chinese books among the college and university libraries in the Kaohsiung-Pintung area. Throught the qualitative study, the author had interviewed with 17 technical librarians of university libraries. After the in-depth conversations with them, the conclusions are:
1.Labor, working load and efficiency are the factors of cataloging outsourcing.2.Types of outsourcing consist of new-books-acquisition-with-file and donated-books-cataloging.3.The implementation procedure of outsourcing emphasize on the acquisition, including planning, specification and contracting.4.Impacts of outsourcing include attitude of librarian、bibliographic quality and management of contracts.5.There are some suggestions from libraries and vendors concerning the cooperation.
Finally, the author proposes her suggestions:1.Improving the cataloging operations, choosing the best way.2.Inforcing the evaluation activities and controlling the factors of the outsourcing results.3.Libraries should play a ruling role in the outsourcing relationship of cooperation.4.Catalog librarians should attend to more professional activities.5.Inforcing the theory and practice of cataloging education.
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