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Future Strategies for National Union Catalogue: Business, Challenges, and Opportunities

Explore the evolving landscape of union catalogues and the potential for Copac in meeting digital text needs. Reflection on the shifting role of catalogues in libraries and the push towards collaborative collection management.

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Future Strategies for National Union Catalogue: Business, Challenges, and Opportunities

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  1. A National Union Catalogue for the Future? Challenges, Opportunities, Pathways… Joy Palmer, Mimas Joy.palmer@manchester.ac.uk @joypalmer

  2. Currently, the primary academic use case for Copac is to identify specific physicaltexts. This is rapidly changing. The ‘right’ text is not necessarily a specific text, but the one that is readily available online at point of need.

  3. Is there a future business case for Copac? (or a ‘national union catalogue’?)

  4. What business are we in?

  5. Disappearing as an individually identifiable component of the library service… the classic catalogue itself is receding from view… [Lorcan Dempsey, 2011]

  6. Function of the catalogue is “rebundled” in changing network environments [Lorcan Dempsey, 2011]

  7. Leveraging Linked Data: A Question of scale Linked and Open Copac and Archives Hub (LOCAH)

  8. The Social Network Attention!

  9. Another question of scale. What if this represented a national aggregation of activity data?

  10. Em “SCONUL proposes the creation of a national digital library, based on a shared service model, to provide access to core collections of materials for all higher education providers in a much more cost effective way by avoiding unecessary duplication of effort, and levelling the playing field for negotiations with publishers…” [SCONUL response to the HE White Paper, 19 Sep 2011] A problem (and solution) shared?

  11. t A Problem Shared? Collaborative collection management

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