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A National Union Catalogue for the Future? Challenges, Opportunities, Pathways… Joy Palmer, Mimas Joy.palmer@manchester.ac.uk @ joypalmer.
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A National Union Catalogue for the Future? Challenges, Opportunities, Pathways… Joy Palmer, Mimas Joy.palmer@manchester.ac.uk @joypalmer
Currently, the primary academic use case for Copac is to identify specific physicaltexts. This is rapidly changing. The ‘right’ text is not necessarily a specific text, but the one that is readily available online at point of need.
Is there a future business case for Copac? (or a ‘national union catalogue’?)
Disappearing as an individually identifiable component of the library service… the classic catalogue itself is receding from view… [Lorcan Dempsey, 2011]
Function of the catalogue is “rebundled” in changing network environments [Lorcan Dempsey, 2011]
Leveraging Linked Data: A Question of scale Linked and Open Copac and Archives Hub (LOCAH)
The Social Network Attention!
Another question of scale. What if this represented a national aggregation of activity data?
Em “SCONUL proposes the creation of a national digital library, based on a shared service model, to provide access to core collections of materials for all higher education providers in a much more cost effective way by avoiding unecessary duplication of effort, and levelling the playing field for negotiations with publishers…” [SCONUL response to the HE White Paper, 19 Sep 2011] A problem (and solution) shared?
t A Problem Shared? Collaborative collection management