SHEILA S. INTNER is a Professor of Library and Information Science in the Graduate School of Simmons College. She has authored Circulation Policy in Academic, Public, and School Libraries (Greenwood Press, 1987), and co-edited (with Janet Swan Hill) Recruiting, Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians: Solving the Problems (Greenwood Press, 1989). She has also written numerous articles on librarianship.JANET SWAN HILL is Associate Director for Technical Services in the University of Colorado Libraries, Boulder. She served as Director of Cataloging at Northwestern University and authored Classification of Library Materials. She has also contributed numerous articles to various scholarly and library journals.

• Editors' Introduction The Challenge of Excellence in Librarianship by Robert M. Hayes Recruiting Cataloging Librarians The Recruitment Muddle: Entrances and Exits by James M. Matarazzo Recruiting: Analyses and Strategies by Liz Boshoff, D. Whitney Coe, Elizabeth Futas, Fay Zipkowitz, Heidi Lee Hoerman, Thomas W. Leonhardt, James G. Neal, and Marion T. Reid Discussion #1 Educating Cataloging Librarians The Fiction and the Reality of the Stereotypes by Jane B. Robbins The Education of Cataloging Librarians by Michael Carpenter, Carolyn O. Frost, Suzanne Hildenbrand, Sheila S. Intner, Beatrice Kovacs, Joseph R. Matthews, and Francis Miksa Discussion #2 Training Cataloging Librarians The Future of Staff Development by Henriette D. Avram On-the-Job-Training: Issues and Answers by Nancy L. Eaton, Michael Fitzgerald, Maureen Sullivan, and D. Kathryn Weintraub Discussion #3 Selected Bibliography Index

SHEILA S. INTNER is a Professor of Library and Information Science in the Graduate School of Simmons College. She has authored Circulation Policy in Academic, Public, and School Libraries (Greenwood Press, 1987), and co-edited (with Janet Swan Hill) Recruiting, Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians: Solving the Problems (Greenwood Press, 1989). She has also written numerous articles on librarianship.JANET SWAN HILL is Associate Director for Technical Services in the University of Colorado Libraries, Boulder. She served as Director of Cataloging at Northwestern University and authored Classification of Library Materials. She has also contributed numerous articles to various scholarly and library journals.

• Editors' Introduction The Challenge of Excellence in Librarianship by Robert M. Hayes Recruiting Cataloging Librarians The Recruitment Muddle: Entrances and Exits by James M. Matarazzo Recruiting: Analyses and Strategies by Liz Boshoff, D. Whitney Coe, Elizabeth Futas, Fay Zipkowitz, Heidi Lee Hoerman, Thomas W. Leonhardt, James G. Neal, and Marion T. Reid Discussion #1 Educating Cataloging Librarians The Fiction and the Reality of the Stereotypes by Jane B. Robbins The Education of Cataloging Librarians by Michael Carpenter, Carolyn O. Frost, Suzanne Hildenbrand, Sheila S. Intner, Beatrice Kovacs, Joseph R. Matthews, and Francis Miksa Discussion #2 Training Cataloging Librarians The Future of Staff Development by Henriette D. Avram On-the-Job-Training: Issues and Answers by Nancy L. Eaton, Michael Fitzgerald, Maureen Sullivan, and D. Kathryn Weintraub Discussion #3 Selected Bibliography Index