"Metadata Leadership" Library Journal (08/15/04) P. 27; Tennant, Roy Libraries will have to embrace bibliographic records encoded with different standards and emerging specs such as Dublin Core, the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), and VRA Core, or become even more marginalized. The number of useful items online without MARC cataloging now reaches into the millions, and may never be catalogued in MARC. Catalogers can plan a key role in accommodating records not catalogued in MARC or AACR2 because they understand that the important metadata issues of granularity, accuracy, authority control, and controlled vocabularies remain the same. Rebecca Guenther at the Library of Congress has helped lead the way by being involved in the Dublin Core effort, and also by helping to pioneer the MODS. And some library schools are updating their curricula and creating new classes to address all forms of biographical metadata. However, libraries need to stress the importance of metadata expertise so that catalogers long out of school will be motivated to revamp their skills. The National Information Standards Organization offers the superb paper "Understanding Metadata," which should help get library staff up to speed. (www.libraryjournal.com). Rajesh "Metadata Leadership" Library Journal (08/15/04) P. 27; Tennant, Roy Libraries will have to embrace bibliographic records encoded with different standards and emerging specs such as Dublin Core, the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), and VRA Core, or become even more marginalized. The number of useful items online without MARC cataloging now reaches into the millions, and may never be catalogued in MARC. Catalogers can plan a key role in accommodating records not catalogued in MARC or AACR2 because they understand that the important metadata issues of granularity, accuracy, authority control, and controlled vocabularies remain the same. Rebecca Guenther at the Library of Congress has helped lead the way by being involved in the Dublin Core effort, and also by helping to pioneer the MODS. And some library schools are updating their curricula and creating new classes to address all forms of biographical metadata. However, libraries need to stress the importance of metadata expertise so that catalogers long out of school will be motivated to revamp their skills. The National Information Standards Organization offers the superb paper "Understanding Metadata," which should help get library staff up to speed. ( http://www.libraryjournal.com/ www.libraryjournal.com ). Rajesh