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Prepared for the PCC Participants Meeting San Antonio TX January 2006 Karen Calhoun

On Competition for Catalogers. Prepared for the PCC Participants Meeting San Antonio TX January 2006 Karen Calhoun. JOHN KERRY TESTIFYING BEFORE THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, APRIL 22, 1971. The Way We Worked. Books Journals Newspapers Gov docs Maps Scores AV

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Prepared for the PCC Participants Meeting San Antonio TX January 2006 Karen Calhoun

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  1. On Competition for Catalogers Prepared for the PCC Participants Meeting San Antonio TX January 2006 Karen Calhoun

  2. JOHN KERRY TESTIFYING BEFORE THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE, APRIL 22, 1971

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. From Dempsey, Lorcan et al. 2005. “Metadata switch.” In E-Scholarship: ALITA Guide (Chicago: LITA).Used by permission.

  6. Build a vision of a new kind of library Examine assumptions Be more involved with research and learning materials and systems Move to next generation systems and services Make library collections and librarians more visible A New Kind of Library An online social network

  7. How Much Stress is Too Much?

  8. “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

  9. “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

  10. “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

  11. Table 1: Challenges Facing Traditional Cataloging

  12. Table 1, Continued: Challenges Facing Traditional Cataloging

  13. Table 2 : Forecasts and Implications for Metadata Specialists

  14. Table 2 Continued: Forecasts and Implications for Metadata Specialists

  15. Thank You! • Being a Librarian: Metadata and Metadata Specialists in the Twenty-first Century • Forthcoming in Metadata and Digital Collections: a Festschrift in Honor of Thomas P. Turner. Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. • Preprint 17 December 2004 • http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2231 • ksc10@cornell.edu

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