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
- Invitation
- Program
- Presenters
- Papers
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


