"Reimagining the library catalog: changing user needs, changing functionality"

1. Reality Check: What is it That the Public Wants Today? James Weinheimer "Reimagining the library catalog: changing user needs, changing functionality" CaMMS Forum Friday, June 22, 2012

2. A few numbers 555 million webSITES compared to: 1,052,803 book titles published in 2009 288,355 published traditionally 764,448 self-published Worldcat: 271,171,335 records includes non-book materials, and probably includes records for articles for FirstSearch and OAIster. 129,864,880 books (total books = manifestations as estimated by Google) 271,171,335 total records in Worldcat vs. 129,864,880 total books vs. 555 million webSITES not webPAGES

3. Library Metadata Metadata Macrocosm

4. Some important talks David Weinberger: Too big to know

5. Some important talks Clay Shirkey on "It's not information overload. It's filter failure"

6. Some important talks Debate on the Filter Bubble

7. Some important talks Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice Freedom is Good. Freedom means I have more Choices. Therefore, the more Choices I have means I have more Freedom.

8. Some important talks Noam Chomsky: “...the Internet is kind of like walking into the Library of Congress in a sense. Everything is there, but you have to know what you’re looking for. If you don’t know what you’re looking for you might as well not have the library. Like you can’t decide you want to become a biologist -- it’s not enough to walk into Harvard's biology library. You have to have a framework of understanding, a conception of what’s important and what isn’t important; what makes sense and what doesn’t make sense. Not a rigid one that never gets modified, but at least some kind of framework. Unfortunately that’s pretty rare. … So yes, they can find things of value and significance, but you have to know to look for them and you have to have a framework of analysis and perception that allows you to weed that out from a lot of the junk that surrounds it.”

9. Outrageous amount of information being created • Metadata isn't what it used to be • It's not Information Overload, it's Filter Failure • Filter Bubbles • Paradox of Choice • People need frameworks before they can even begin BUT: • None of these people are librarians!

10. An Incredibly Short History of Statistical Displays

11. Tables An Incredibly Short History of Statistical Displays

12. Graphs and Charts Tables An Incredibly Short History of Statistical Displays

13. Graphs and Charts Tables Modern Forms An Incredibly Short History of Statistical Displays

14. Graphs and Charts Tables Modern Forms An Incredibly Short History of Statistical Displays Google Public Data Explorer

15. Search for Stonehenge Book Catalog An Incredibly Short History of Library Search Results

16. Card Catalog STONEHENGE STONEHENGE From: Harvard, it's in the cards / Mindy Johnston - October 27th, 2008. Harvard Law School Library Blog http://etseq.law.harvard.edu/2008/10/852_rare_october_2008/

17. Online Public Access Catalog

18. Faceted Catalog Statistical Information!

20. Search Result Summary Of the 5691 resources with the word Stonehenge, 1402 are about the place of Stonehenge. The most prolific author is J.H. Walsh, who wrote under the name of Stonehenge [link to authority record] and wrote primarily in the 1800s. In the past 10 years, there have been 387 books published on the place of Stonehenge, and of those the most prolific author is Sam Christer, who writes books of fiction. Since 2002, the number of non-fiction books about Stonehenge have averaged 43 each year and the latest ones are ...., while the ones that have been most often cited are …. Most popular subtopics of Stonehenge are... Related topics are... Concerning articles on Stonehenge, we discover ….

21. The problem is the CATALOG not the catalog RECORDS Thank you!

22. Statistics Internet 2011 in numbers: http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/01/17/internet-2011-in-numbers/ Worldcat Statistics: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/statistics/default.htm Self-publishing versus traditional publishing (Words of Every Type / Ian Tuttle): http://wordsofeverytype.com/tag/total-number-of-books-published-by-year Books of the world, stand up and be counted! / Leonid Taycher (Google Books Search) http://booksearch.blogspot.it/2010/08/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-counted.html YouTube Statistics: http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics/ Presentations David Weinberger, Too Big to Know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCVI-yolj34 Shirkey, Clay. The problem is filter failure, not information overload.http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10142298-16.html When It Comes to Politics, the Internet is Closing Minds. Fora.tv http://fora.tv/2012/04/17/When_It_Comes_to_Politics_the_Internet_is_Closing_Minds Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice. TEDTalks http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html On America's Declining Empire, Occupy and the Arab Spring / Noam Chomsky and Joshua Holland. Znet http://www.zcommunications.org/on-americas-declining-empire-occupy-and-the-arab-spring-by-noam-chomsky Other Cataloging Matters Podcast no. 7: Search. First Thus http://blog.jweinheimer.net/2010/12/cataloging-matters-podcast-no-7-search.html Cataloging Matters Podcast no. 14: Musings on the Linked Data Diagram. First Thus http://blog.jweinheimer.net/2012/03/cataloging-matters-podcast-no-14.html Revolution in our Minds: Seeing the World Anew. First Thus http://blog.jweinheimer.net/2012/02/revolution-in-our-minds-seeing-world.html Narrative Science: http://www.narrativescience.com Little League Recap: http://www.gamechanger.io/features/admins/recap-stories Forbes Earnings Review: Compuware http://www.forbes.com/sites/narrativescience/2012/05/17/forbes-earnings-preview-compuware-3/ R E F E R E N C E S