National Library of Australia

Promise for the future, or legacy of the past? : cataloguing in a changing world

Auditorium 1, Level 2, State Library of Queensland
Friday 7th September 2007

Papers

On competition for cataloguers
Karen Calhoun, Vice President, OCLC WorldCat and Metadata Services
Powerpoint presentation ; MP3 audio

The future of cataloguing education and training: input from surveys of the profession
Gillian Hallam, Associate Professor, School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology and Stuart Ferguson presenting paper on behalf of Philip Hider, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University (ACOC)
Text of paper (by Philip Hider); Powerpoint presentation 1 (Hallam) ; Powerpoint presentation 2 (Hider/Ferguson) ; MP3 audio

Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Deirdre Kiorgaard (ACOC)
Powerpoint presentation ; MP3 audio

Directors' views on the future of cataloguing : a survey
Jenny Warren, Monash University
Text of paper ; MP3 audio

The plight of the library catalogue - where to now?
Dianna McClellan, Metadata Services, La Trobe University
Text of paper ; MP3 audio

Boldly going where no cataloguer has gone before
Karen Stone, Manager, Database Services, State Library of Queensland
Text of paper ; Powerpoint presentation ; MP3 audio

Subject cataloguing : faster, better, cheaper
Alison Dellit and Wan Wong, National Library of Australia
Text of paper ; Powerpoint presentation ; MP3 audio

Tags, Tagging, Social_tagging, the good and bad of "user assigned keywords"
Anne Beaumont, Senior Research & Development Analyst, Office of eStrategy,
State Library of Victoria
Powerpoint presentation ; MP3 audio

Other Related Readings

Australian Committee on Cataloguing. (2007) “Draft position statement regarding the formal education required of entry-level cataloguers and allied information organisation professionals” http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/documents/positionstatement.doc

Calhoun, Karen. (2006) “The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools” http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2006/06-093.html

Cathro, Warwick. (2006) “The Changing Role of the Catalogue” http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/102-Cathro-en.pdf

Dempsey, Lorcan, Eric Childress, Carol Jean Godby, Thomas B. Hickey, Andrew Houghton, Diane Vizine-Goetz, and Jeff Young. (2004) “Metadata switch: thinking about some metadata management and knowledge organization issues in the changing research and learning landscape.” Forthcoming in LITA guide to e-scholarship (working title), ed. Debra Shapiro. http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/archive/2004/dempsey-mslitaguide.pdf

Indiana University. (2006) “A White Paper on the Future of Cataloging at Indiana University”
http://www.iub.edu/~libtserv/pub/Future_of_Cataloging_White_Paper.pdf

Mann, Thomas. (2006) “What is Going on at the Library of Congress?” http://www.guild2910.org/AFSCMEWhatIsGoingOn.pdf.

Mann, Thomas.(2007) "The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries" Prepared for AFSCME 2910, June 13, 2007. http://guild2910.org/Pelopponesian%20War%20June%2013%202007.pdf

Markey, Karen. (2007) “The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?” in D-Lib Magazine. January/February 2007, Volume 13 Number 1/2. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/markey/01markey.html

RLG Members Forum. (2006) “More, Better, Faster, Cheaper”. http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20968.

Shirky, Clay. (2006) “Ontology is Overrated” http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

University of California Libraries, Bibliographic Services Task Force (2005). “Rethinking How We Provide bibliographic Services to the University of California” http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/sopag/BSTF/Final.pdf

Yee, Martha M. (2007) "Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation?" http://www.slc.bc.ca/response.htm