Usage
What does cataloger mean? A cataloger is a person who’s responsible for cataloging things—recording them in an ordered list. Catalog is sometimes spelled catalogue, and cataloger is sometimes spelled cataloguer. The list that the cataloger compiles is also called a catalog. Cataloger is often used in the context of the formal recording of items in a collection, such as that of a museum or library. Catalog also often refers to a printed copy of items available for purchase from a particular company. The company providing such catalogs can be called a cataloger, but this sense of the word isn’t all that commonly used anymore. Example: A team of catalogers has been working for months to document and record every last volume in the collection.
Etymology
Origin of cataloger
Example Sentences
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As a junior cataloger at U-Va. in the 1980s, Nelson said it took three weeks of training to learn the layers of organization necessary.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2019
Veteran songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Stuart, who got his start as a teenage prodigy hired by bluegrass pioneer Lester Flatt, is well-known in country circles as an obsessive historian, collector and cataloger of country’s history.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2019
Upon his death in 2015, New Hampshire cataloger Robert Morin donated his $4 million estate to the university from which he graduated in 1963 and where he worked for nearly 50 years.
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2016
In the archiving project, which was carried out with the help of Mitch Blank, a longtime cataloger of musical material, 50 to 60 volunteers removed dozens of boxes of tapes from Mr. Fass’s home.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2012
The one other way of talking to Oakley Street was through a cataloger at the Bodleian Library.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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