Moving cataloguing rules out of the library: goodbye, AACR2? / J. McRee (Mac) Elrod -- AACR and RDA: one cataloguer's reaction / Helen Buhler -- RDA, AACR2, and you: what catalogers are thinking / Elaine R. Sanchez -- A systems librarian's cataloging daydream / Jon Gorman -- A question of identity: the role of identifiers in library catalogs / Ed Jones -- NF: a new format for metadata / Bernhard Eversberg -- The single shared catalog revisited / Martha M. Yee -- Role of the ILS and how libraries will purchase and maintain their systems, including information from a vendor perspective / Scott Piepenburg -- Catalog and metadata librarian: a foot in both worlds / Lynnette M. Fields -- Facing a time of change / Halvard (Hal) Cain -- Judgment and imagination: carrying cataloging through times of change / Jay Weitz -- Cataloger survival in a sea of change and a surfeit of acronyms / John F. Myers -- Changing mind-set, changing skill set: transitioning from cataloger to metadata librarian / Christine Schwartz -- Realities of standards in the twenty-first century / James Weinheimer -- The brick wall: attracting people to a career in cataloging / Janet Swan Hill -- Blogs and their place in the continuing education of catalogers / Jennifer Marie Eustis -- Cataloging/metadata and library science education programs for catalogers and metadata specialists: challenges for the twenty-first century / Sylvia D. Hall-Ellis -- Chronological bibliography of selected works related to cataloging and libraries through 1800 ; and, Selected bibliography of library and cataloging history / Elaine R. Sanchez.