ALCTS CATALOGING NORMS DISCUSSION GROUP

ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, ANAHEIMJUNE 28, 2008

Scope of the Library Catalog in Time of

Transition

Time of Transition

Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium (2000)

Tennant, R. “MARC Must Die” (2002) and “A Bibliographic Metadata Infrastructure for the Twenty-First Century” (2004)

Marcum, D. “The Future of Cataloging: Address to the Ebsco Leadership Seminar” (2005)

“Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California: Final Report” (2005).

Calhoun, K. “The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools” (2006)

“On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control” (2008)

RDA (2009)

Catalog Abandoned?

Catalog, ILS & NGC

Endeca at NCSU Libraries WorldCat LocalEvergreenEncore Primo AquaBrowserUngavaeXtensible Catalog (XC)

The Library Catalog

Web in the Local Context

Tangible Resources Hidden Collections Electronic Resources Digital Collections Web Resources

Tangible Resources

Still vital for any library-- for Research or casual needs AACR2r/MARC records Enhanced Content

LC’s BEAT program Commercial solutions Index scanned documents using OCR Scanned texts

Hidden Collections

Special Collections

Archives and Manuscripts Collection-level record to EAD Creative use of ERM for archival collections

Portland State University

Electronic Resources

Single access point Catalog v. A-Z list

MARC records from vendors ERMs

E-journals E-books

Digital Collections and Institutional Repositories

Outside the catalogLinks mostly one-way from the catalog

Links from Digital Library and Institutional Repository to the catalog

Web Resources

Selective scholarly resources American Memory (LC) INFOMINE

Google v. Library Catalog

“Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Core Values of Librarianship: Access – “All information resources that are provided directly or indirectly by the library, regardless of technology, format, or methods of delivery, should be readily, equally, and equitably accessible to all library users.” - Excerpts from ALA Policy

Thank You!

Jina Choi Wakimoto

Head, Cataloging & Metadata Services

University of Colorado at Boulder

Jina.wakimoto@colorado.edu

References

“Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenges of Networked Resources and the Web”, sponsored by the Library of Congress Cataloging Directorate. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/

Roy Tennant, “MARC Must Die,” Library Journal 127, no. 17 (2002): 26-28.

Roy Tenant, “A bibliographic metadata infrastructure for the twenty-first century,” Library Hi Tech 22, no. 2 (2004): 175-181.

Deanna Marcum, “The Future of Cataloging: Address to the Ebsco Leadership Seminar, January 16, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts.”www.loc.gov/library/reports/CatalogingSpeech.pdf

References

University of California Libraries Bibliographic Services Task Force, Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California: Final Report, (2005). http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/BSTF/Final.pdf

Calhoun, Karen. 2006. The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools; Final Report, Prepared for the Library of Congress. March 17. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf

On the Record: Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. Final report available at: http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/

RDA http://www.rdaonline.org/

References

Google http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html

Core Values of Librarianshiphttp://www.acrl.org/ala/oif/statementspols/corevaluesstatement/corevalues.cfm