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 physical texts. 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. Attention! The Social Network

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

10. Em A problem (and solution) shared? “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]

11. t A Problem Shared? Collaborative collection management