Future of Cataloging

1. Future of Cataloging RDA and other innovations pt.1

2. Why RDA? • First we have to ask • Who are we cataloging for? • For what environment are we cataloging? • How can we streamline cataloging? • What we catalog has expanded • Not just books, but videos, audio music, audiobooks, text and music for i-pods, etc. • Re-workings of works into play-scripts, online resource, adaptations for children, translations, films, etc. • Variations have new contributors or agencies but all are related to the original other • AACR2 mixed content and carrier • Relationships for all these materials need to be made clear to the user

3. Changes • CONSER & GPO Abridged • http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/conser.html • http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/cip/cataloging-revision-ap07.pdf • New OPAC views on top of current ILS • New open source systems • Cataloging more than just books • Cataloging in a worldwide environment

4. CONSER and GPO Abridged • CONSER standard and the GPO Abridged support the idea that primarily all you need is enough description to identify and a lot of valid access points • What can we eliminate and still create a functioning record? • For example you don’t need a 4XX, just use the valid 830

5. New OPACS uses • Bibliographic record link to SFX • From a database via SFX or WorldCat to local catalog • From courseware • To book covers, to Google books, to Amazon • WorldCat Identities

11. Courseware links • SUBJECT SEARCH FOR UND CAMPUS HOLDINGS EXCLUDING US GOV DOCS • http://www.odinlibrary.org/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=sbh%3Dcivil+rights+not+wgp%3Df &local_base=undal

13. WorldCat Identities • WorldCat data in a different light • An Identities profile takes the holdings and metadata contributed by cataloging member libraries, and uniquely re-uses them to create a reference page with broad appeal to Web users. Information available in an Identities profile relative to the profilee includes: • An overview with the total number of published titles, languages in which those titles are published, story genres, and roles the person has assumed (author, performer, narrator, etc.) • A timeline, displaying by year the number of publications either created by or about the profilee • A list of titles most owned by WorldCat libraries, with brief descriptions and selected cover art • A "tag cloud" of associated library subject headings • Links to other identities commonly associated with the current profilee • Uses FAST subjects in the clouds

16. OPAC on ILS • Endeca, Encore, Primo • Primo example URL: http://discoverlibrary.vanderbilt.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=VANDERBILT&fromLogin=true • Endeca example URL: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalog/ • Encore example URL: http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/ • WorldCat Local • OHIO example: URL http://statelibraryofohio.worldcat/advancedsearch • VuFind • PALS example URL: http://plus.mnpals.net/ • eXtensible Catalog and OLE coming • URL: (over ILS) http://extensiblecatalog.info/?page_id=17 • URL: (open source ILS) http://oleproject.org/

17. Are these better? • Are these just more attractive or better? • If authorities aren’t included, subject access is often not very relevant to what the user really wanted • You don’t see the whole bibliographic record • Terminology not always consistent or clear, e.g. Creator on one screen and Author on another

18. Primo at Vanderbilt

19. Primo record

20. Music in primo

21. Encore

22. Endeca

23. Facet columns

24. WorldCat Local

25. VuFind - PALS

27. Open Source ILS • Open source does not mean free of cost or labor to manage • Open source means you don’t need a special client, e.g. GUI Aleph client • Koha URL: http://www.koha.org/ • Evergreen URL: http://open-ils.org/ • Others, eg. Bibliocommons URL: http://bibliocommons.com/