Title
The 800-pound Gorilla in the Room, or, How to Explain To a Non-Librarian What a Cataloger Is.
Abstract
Librarians often find it difficult to explain what we do. Catalogers often find it difficult to explain to other librarians what we do. This article offers some suggestions.

Comments
Originally published in Informed Librarian Online, March 2009, http://www.informedlibrarian.com/guestForum.cfm?FILE=gf0903.html