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Is Cataloging Dead: Advocacy for Bibliographic Control

Is Cataloging Dead: Advocacy for Bibliographic Control. Randy Roeder and Rebecca Routh ILA/ACRL Spring Conference Davenport, Iowa March 3, 2008. What catalogers do …. “What catalogers are like …. “Set in their ways” “Blindly follow the rules” “Cranky, anti-social”

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Is Cataloging Dead: Advocacy for Bibliographic Control

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  1. Is Cataloging Dead: Advocacy for Bibliographic Control Randy Roeder and Rebecca Routh ILA/ACRL Spring Conference Davenport, Iowa March 3, 2008

  2. What catalogers do …

  3. “What catalogers are like … • “Set in their ways” • “Blindly follow the rules” • “Cranky, anti-social” • “Put the periods in the records.” • “Nit-picky perfectionists” • “Out of date when it’s out of backlog.”

  4. What catalogers hear from others… • “Description is not important” • “No one does subject searches” • “Full text searching makes metadata obsolete” • “Cataloging is too expensive”

  5. So, how did we get to this disconnect? (made buggy whip obsolete)

  6. The chains of the past … • MARC • AACR2 • local practice

  7. LCSH is showing its age … • largest controlled vocabulary in English language (good) • designed for an alphabetical environment (bad) • pre-coordinated (bad) • often too general

  8. “Failures of catalogers …” • assume the value of their work is self-evident • tend to view their work as an endless stream of materials to be processed • focus on the resource, not its use • tend to ignore hard-to-catalog resources (the long tail)

  9. New Directions

  10. New Roles for the Library of Congress

  11. WoGroFuBiCo • Eliminate redundancies • Re-design work flows to make data more accessible • Recycle data from other sources • Focus on the “long tail” (unique and rare collections) • Think and plan for global access

  12. OCLC record

  13. OPAC record

  14. All that’s needed is one good record

  15. The analog past Curses! Oh dear…another goof! Curses!

  16. ONIX for Books

  17. Internet Movie Database

  18. WorldCat Identities

  19. The Long Tail • Unique and rare items • Archival materials • Hidden collections • Digital projects

  20. VIAF Project • Virtual International Authority File • Cooperation between OCLC, Library of Congress, die deutsche Bibliothek • Links authority records from different national libraries • Name registries and subject headings • Multilingual, multi-script, with variations in spelling and romanization

  21. The next generation catalog is affecting cataloging • results not alphabetically displayed • not premised on the retrieval of print material • no decisions about format or location before search • no a trip to another ‘silo’ to retrieve digital content • does not ignore the social side of research

  22. One-box metasearch (Are we there yet?)

  23. Easy integration of digital resources

  24. Recommendations & more …

  25. Integrated instructional content

  26. Faceted browse & relevance ranking

  27. WorldCat Local The shot heard ‘round the world…

  28. Inexpensive ‘next gen’ catalog?

  29. Does not display local record!

  30. Jane Eyre the Novel • Author • Title • Genre • Period • Subject

  31. The Book Editors Publishers Printers

  32. Book in translation • Parallel titles • Translators

  33. The Film Adaptation Writer Director Producer Actors Crew Distributors

  34. The Remakes

  35. The Music Composer Lyricist Librettist Performers Recording studios

  36. The flat record model • One record contains all entities • Navigation awkward • Relationships unclear • Redundant

  37. FRBR Relational Model

  38. “Bibliographic control is increasingly a matter of managing relationships—among works, names, concepts, and object descriptions—across communities.” Report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, January 2008

  39. Successor to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules • Based on FRBR data model • Content standards for all formats • Guidelines for best practice • Online resource • International in scope • Coming soon

  40. Advocating for more of this will fail…

  41. A better vision • A web page for every book, film, recording • Collaborative bibliographic data • Linked author & publisher information • Relationships -- editions, formats and languages • Linked critical works & scholarship • “A community of experts” adding value

  42. Cataloging staff • training for a new skill set • working in a more collaborative environment • more accountability

  43. Cataloging isn’t dead -- it’s changing.

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