Australian Committee on Cataloguing State Library of Queensland September 7, 2007 Karen Calhoun

1. On Competition for Cataloguers Australian Committee on Cataloguing State Library of Queensland September 7, 2007 Karen Calhoun

2. Miles Franklin, 1879-1954 Author of My Brilliant Career Calhoun - ACOC Conference

3. 30+ Years of Technological Advances in Technical Services Digital Libraries The Internet Local library systems Online cooperative cataloging Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) MARC Record Calhoun - ACOC Conference

4. Early 21st Century Technical Services Landscape Calhoun - ACOC Conference

5. My Report to the Library of Congress • Calhoun, Karen. The Changing Nature of the catalogue 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 - ACOC Conference

6. My Thesis: We Need to Rethink the Catalogue in Light of a Changed World • Research indicates the catalogue is hard to use • Content has changed • Users have changed • The library service model must change • The catalogue must change WHO? WHAT? HOW? WHERE? Calhoun - ACOC Conference

7. “Save the time of the reader.” --S.R. Ranganathan, 1931 Library catalogues, cataloguing, and cataloguers • MARC, AACR, and LC • Cooperative cataloguing • Affordability and scalability • More than descriptive metadata • Metadata is a strategic issue for libraries Calhoun - ACOC Conference

8. Table 1: Challenges Facing Traditional cataloguing

9. Table 1, Continued: Challenges Facing Traditional cataloguing

10. 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 - ACOC Conference

11. Geocentric/ Aristotelian view: The local catalogue is the sun Heliocentric/ Copernican view: The local catalogue is a planet Calhoun - ACOC Conference

12. Start by examining assumptions Information objects of all types Make collections more visible and easier to use A New Kind of Cataloguer http://vivo.library.cornell.edu/ Calhoun - ACOC Conference

13. What is “Full”?Examining Assumptions Product Description & Purchase Information More like this Editorial Reviews & Author Info Inside the Book Tags, Ratings Customer Reviews Lists More Bibliographic Information Australian Library Holdings Bibliographic Information Library Holdings Details Subjects Editions Reviews + 3 more screens With thanks to David Lankes: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/ 2007/ALCTS.pdf

14. Opportunities for “New Age” Cataloguers AND MORE! • Leadership • Project management • Workflow analysis and • quality improvement • Metadata recycling and reuse Calhoun - ACOC Conference

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 - ACOC Conference

16. The Rise of Special Collections and Archives Calhoun - ACOC Conference

17. Digitization Projects Calhoun - ACOC Conference

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 - ACOC Conference

19. “2 ½ cheers for Google.” --Paul Duguid, May 5 2003, Cornell University Library Collections on the Network • 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 - ACOC Conference

20. Picture Australia Calhoun - ACOC Conference

21. Libraries Australia: A World of Information ORAL HISTORIES

22. Libraries Australia, CBS and WorldCat • 1 July 2007 • All Libraries Australia subscribers • Access to WorldCat for cataloguing • Search access for end users • Governing members of OCLC • http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/questions.html#oclc Calhoun - ACOC Conference

23. SRU UPDATE Libraries Australia Teratext PUSH L O G Libraries Australia CBS SRU UPDATE M21 WorldCat WorldCat identifiers, FRBR work id Synchronization: A Case Study of Metadata Exchange and Reuse

24. Table 2 : Forecasts and Implications for Metadata Specialists

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

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