The Value of Technical Services

Abstract

What is the value of the work done in library technical services to researchers, to librarians, to someone using Google?

To me, it seems relatively straightfor- ward to help people at the university

understand that someone must order,

pay for, and make collections avail- able for use. But I also would like to

make it clear to people everywhere that there is value added for a larger, even

worldwide, community of information- seekers when copy catalogers and

cataloging librarians in any library

create bibliographic records, make data corrections, or add missing bits of data.