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Jenn Riley

The Next Evolution of Library Cataloging: Finding Our Place in the 21 st Century Information Ecology. Jenn Riley Head, Carolina Digital Library and Archives The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Remix culture. Read/Write culture. Read/Only culture.

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Jenn Riley

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  1. The Next Evolution of Library Cataloging: Finding Our Place in the 21st Century Information Ecology Jenn Riley Head, Carolina Digital Library and ArchivesThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Australian Committee on Cataloging Seminar / Layers Upon Layers, Delving Into Discovery / 28 October 2011

  2. Remix culture

  3. Read/Write culture Read/Only culture

  4. Libraries must acknowledge support for both RO and RW.

  5. A redefined role for libraries, and our metadata

  6. Really? That’s scary.

  7. To enable a person to find a book of which either • the author • the title • the subject • To show what the library has • by a given author • on a given subject • in a given kind of literature • To assist in the choice of a book • as to its edition (bibliographically) • as to its character (literary or topical) } is known Cutter: Objects of the Catalog

  8. ALA Strategic Plan 2010-2015 ALA provides leadership in the transformation of libraries and library services in a dynamic and increasingly global digital information environment. Big Audacious Goal: ALA builds a world where libraries, both physical and virtual, are central to life-long discovery and learning and where everyone is a library user. Libraries collaborate effectively with each other, with museums, archives and other information providers to increase public access to information. Library missions are broad

  9. Interpreting that mission

  10. A broad view of library metadata

  11. So how do we pay for all of this?

  12. No more copy cataloging

  13. Give up control of some of the details

  14. Use technology more effectively

  15. This is going to take a while

  16. jennriley@unc.edu Fractal image by Jon Zander (Digon3) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lines_Apophysis_Fractal_Flame.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 Thank you!

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