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This exploratory study investigated catalogers’ perception of cataloging competencies and job performance evaluation at digital age in Taiwan. Cataloger’s self-evaluation on their own job performance was conceptualization as an indicator of cataloging quality. The objectives of this article were as follows: (1)to explore cataloging tasks of catalogers and cataloging competencies; (2) to explore the catalogers’ perception of cataloging competency; (3) to explore cataloger’s selfevaluation on their own job performance; (4) to explore the factors affect the job performance of catalogers. A total of 30 competencies were clustered in to five groups: information organization basics, descriptive cataloging, subject analysis and authority control, cataloging management and technologies, and metadata. Catalogers subjects were randomly selected from the library statistics systems, 366 catalogers were invited to participate and questionnaires were sent to their libraries. The overall response was 75.9%. The survey showed that the subjects' cataloging tasks covered Chinese cataloging, western cataloging, non-book materials and electronic resources cataloging. The average of overall importance of the cataloging competency was 4.19, and the five types of cataloging competency perception from high to low were: information organization basics, description cataloging, subject analysis and authority control, cataloging management & technology and metadata. The average of catalogers’ self-evaluation of cataloging competency was 3.62. The overall average competency satisfaction degree of the surveyed librarians is 3.48, and the overall satisfaction of the job performance is 3.43, and the overall average of the job satisfaction was 3.57, and the average meaning view of cataloging was 4.08.Multiple regression analysis found the catalogers’ self-assessment of subject analysis and authority control, and catalogers overall satisfaction with their own cataloging competencies were two significant predictors of catalogers’ own job performance. Catalogers’ self-assessment on descriptive cataloging and cataloging management and technologies contributed to catalogers’ levels of overall satisfaction with their own cataloging competency. The results of this study showed that cataloging competency was related to the job performance of catalogers and provided reference for future development on cataloging and information organization curricula and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study mainly discusses performance measurements of interlibrary loan for university libraries in Taiwan. The purposes of the study are: 1. to explore the status of interlibrary loan services for university libraries in Taiwan; 2. to collect and analyze current data on the performance of ILL services of university libraries; 3. to identify and describe characteristics of low-cost, high-performing ILL operations. The study used questionnaire surveys and performance evaluation method with four performance measures to evaluate borrowing and lending services: cost, fill rate, turnaround time, and collection sufficiency. In 2014, the researcher sent questionnaires to 169 university libraries to collect the interlibrary loan operations and performance data in 2013. With the implementation the NDDS ILL information system in 2013, the ILL service performance of 107 participants were assessed, the average ILL transaction per library was 993, the average ILL borrowing transaction per library was 484, and the average ILL lending transaction per library was 509. The borrowing unit cost was NT$165, and the lending unit cost was NT$129. The borrowing fill rate was 79%, and the lending fill rate was 82%. The borrowing turnaround time was 1.98 days, and the lending turnaround time was 1.54 days. As the ratio of requests received to requests sent out in interlibrary lending was 1.1:1, it showed that the collection of university libraries was sufficient and adequate. This study carried out a performance measurement of ILL service, constructed seven performance indicators and described the performance of ILL service for university libraries in Taiwan as costing less with a faster turnaround time, higher fill rate and a sufficient and adequate collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]