The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium (Thursday, May 29, 2008, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

 

Keynote Address:Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services, will present an overview of the current state of cataloging and the future direction of bibliographic control.

 

Now updated with audio recordings and slides (from most of the presenters)!

 

 

From Catalogablog:

"The full text of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) incorporating the amended definition of the expression entity as well as the errata identified to date has been made available on IFLANET in both PDF and HTML formats.

For the first time, the HTML versions of both the current text and the original 1998 text include the tables, rather than just references to the PDF version."

This project pulls together the official documents from the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, along with various commentary on the open meetings. 1st meeting: March 8, 2007 Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data 2nd meeting: May 9, 2007 Structures and Standards for Bibliographic Data 3rd meeting: July 9, 2007 Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data

Home page for the working group.

A new blog on the future of cataloging. 

"The focus of this blog is the future of cataloging and metadata in libraries. The preparation of the new cataloging code, RDA: Resource Description and Access, is a significant issue. The future of the MARC 21 format will also be explored. ILS/OPAC's future will be touch on also, but will not be the central focus. Also, I hope to use this blog to collocate some of the important papers, articles, websites, etc. that deal with the future of cataloging and metadata.
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Library Journal's take on the LC working group on Future of Bibliographic Control. 

Interesting that the represented group include Google and Microsoft, in addition to the regular library reps.

The Library of Congress announced a Working Group to discuss the future of Bibliographic Control.  

They will sponser several regional forums to gather info. and release a draft report for comments by Sept 2007,

with a final report by Nov. 2007

I believe that this is the follow-up promised following the announcement of the changes in series access

announced earlier in 2006. 

Believe it or not--Inside Higher Ed reports on a cataloging topic!  The article is a basic summary of the LC series decision with references to the Karen Calhoun report and Thomas Mann's rebutal.  

LC's Press release on Karen Calhoun's report  "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools"

PDF report at:  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf 

Links to several essays on the future of cataloging, including a recent (April 2006) addition by Thomas Mann which is a review of Karen Calhoun's report on the topic.

Blog report of conference presentation by Roy Tennant, California Digital Library and Andrew Pace, North carolina State University (NCSU). Nice summary of issues

URL for Word doc. is:  http://www.iub.edu/~libtserv/pub/Future_of_Cataloging_White_Paper.doc

URL for white paper is:   http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/BSTF/Final.pdf