Rethinking the Catalog: Adapting to a Changing World (90 characters)

1. On Competition for Catalogers “What They Don’t Teach in Library School” An ALA Preconference Sponsored by ALCTS/ALISE/LC/Libraries Unlimited June 22, 2007 Karen Calhoun

2. “What Changed in the US with Hurricane Katrina was the feeling that we have entered a period of consequences…” – Al Gore Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

3. How Much Stress is Too Much? Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

4. My Report to the Library of Congress • Calhoun, Karen. The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools • Washington, DC: Library of Congress, March 17 2006 • http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

5. My Thesis: We Need to Rethink the Catalog in Light of a Changed World • Users are not getting what they need from online libraries and catalogs • Content has changed • Users have changed • The library service model must change • The catalog must change • Catalogers must change WHO? WHAT? HOW? WHERE? Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

6. “Save the time of the reader.” --S.R. Ranganathan, 1931 Library Catalogs, Cataloging, and Catalogers • MARC, AACR, and LC • Cooperative cataloging • Affordability and scalability • More than descriptive metadata • Metadata is a strategic issue for libraries Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

7. The Way We Worked Books Journals Newspapers Gov docs Maps Scores AV Dissertations Library catalogs Special collections Manuscripts Papers Univ records Archives Journal articles Conference proceedings Etc. Abstracting & Indexing services

8. Librarianship: “There are few professions which contribute so much to the saving of time and to the progress of science.” –Library Journal, 1890 Being a 21st Century Librarian • Starting points: • Technology-driven research, teaching and learning • Disintermediation (decrease in guided access to content) • Global “infosphere” • Accelerating shift in information seekers’ preferences for Web-based information and multimedia formats Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

9. Geocentric/ Aristotelian view: The local catalog is the sun Heliocentric/ Copernican view: The local catalog is a planet Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

10. Full Text: Digital Repositories and Interactive Learning http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

11. Second Life Library and Info Island Second Life http://secondlife.com/ 5,853,971 “residents” (April 21 2007) Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

12. Examine assumptions Be involved with information objects of all types Move to next generation systems and services Make information (including, but not limited to library collections) more visible and easier to use Metadata and beyond A New Kind of Cataloger http://vivo.library.cornell.edu/ Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

13. Crisis or Opportunity? Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

14. Opportunities for “New Age” Catalogers • Metadata recycling and reuse • Workflow analysis and • quality improvement Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

15. The Continuing Importance of Books • Books and serials are not dead, and they are not yet digital • ARL libraries spent the lion’s share of US$665 million on books and serials in 2004 Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

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17. Digitization Projects Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

18. “Instead of being a hoarder of containers, the library must become the facilitator of retrieval and dissemination.”—William Wulf, 2003 A New Way to Work Blakeley, Daniel H. Cornell Center for Materials Research Facility Staff page Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

19. “2 ½ cheers for Google.” --Paul Duguid, May 5 2003, Cornell University Making Library Collections and Services Visible • Library must be where the users’ eyes are • Interconnections, interoperability, and information delivery • Offsite storage and the challenge to browsing • Partnerships, partnerships, partnerships • Much more robust and interconnected discovery and content delivery systems Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

20. Table 1: Challenges Facing Traditional Cataloging Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

21. Table 1, Continued: Challenges Facing Traditional Cataloging Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

22. Table 2 : Forecasts and Implications for Metadata Specialists Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

23. Table 2 Continued: Forecasts and Implications for Metadata Specialists Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference

24. Thank You! • Being a Librarian: Metadata and Metadata Specialists in the Twenty-first Century • Forthcoming in Library Hi Tech, v25 n2 (Summer 2007) • Preprint 17 December 2004 • http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2231 Calhoun - ALCTS ALISE Preconference