Catalogue 2.0: the future of the library catalogue

Abstract

Without exploring the library catalogue, a user will not know which books are to be found in the library, or where they can be found. But in the last 25 years, the nature of the library catalogue has changed immensely, and cataloguing-- the essential skill of bibliographic description-- is undergoing a steady evolution. This collection of essays provides an overview of the current state, and then looks to the future to see what the library catalogue might become.

Contents

Next-generation catalogues : what do users think/ Anne Christensen -- Making search work for the library user / Till Kinstler -- Next-generation discovery : an overview of the European scene / Marshall Breeding -- The mobile library catalogue / Lukas Koster and Driek Heesakkers -- FRBRizing your catalogue : the facets of FRBR / Rosemie Callewaert -- Enabling your catalogue for the Semantic Web / Emmanuelle Berme⁺ђs -- Supporting digital scholarship : bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositories / Karen Calhoun -- Thirteen ways of looking at libraries, discovery and the catalogue : scale, workflow, attention / Lorcan Dempsey. Next-generation catalogues : what do users think? / Anne Christensen -- Making search work for the library user / Till Kinstler -- Next-generation discovery : an overview of the European scene / Marshall Breeding -- The mobile library catalogue / Lukas Koster and Driek Heesakkers -- FRBRizing your catalogue : the facets of FRBR / Rosemie Callewaert -- Enabling your catalogue for the Semantic Web / Emmanuelle Bermès -- Supporting digital scholarship : bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositories / Karen Calhoun -- Thirteen ways of looking at libraries, discovery and the catalogue : scale, workflow, attention / Lorcan Dempsey.