Australian Committee on Cataloguing State Library of Queensland September 7, 2007 Karen Calhoun On Competition for Cataloguers

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference2 Miles Franklin, Author of My Brilliant Career

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference3 30+ Years of Technological Advances in Technical Services MARC Record Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) Online cooperative cataloging Local library systems The Internet Digital Libraries

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference4 Early 21st Century Technical Services Landscape

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference5 My Report to the Library of Congress  Calhoun, Karen. The Changing Nature of the catalogue and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools Washington, DC: Library of Congress, March  final.pdf final.pdf

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference6 My Thesis: We Need to Rethink the Catalogue in Light of a Changed World  Research indicates the catalogue is hard to use  Content has changed  Users have changed  The library service model must change  The catalogue must change WHO? WHAT? HOW? WHERE?

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference7 Library catalogues, cataloguing, and cataloguers  MARC, AACR, and LC  Cooperative cataloguing  Affordability and scalability  More than descriptive metadata  Metadata is a strategic issue for libraries “Save the time of the reader.” --S.R. Ranganathan, 1931

Affordability and Scalability Expense of cataloguing Rapid growth of Web resources and digital assets Need more than descriptive metadata Interoperability issues Competition for Resources to Develop New Library Services Shrinking tech services departments Streamlining tech services workflows Increasing use of external sources of data; automated cataloguing methods Changes in Information-Seeking Behavior Preference for online information Reliance on simple keyword search Decline of subject searching Expectation of seamless linking Table 1: Challenges Facing Traditional cataloguing

Availability of Catalogue Librarians In U.S.: LIS grads not choosing cataloguing Graying of the library profession (demographics) Significance of the Catalogue Catalogue is one part of a much larger infosphere Many new types of scholarly information objects not covered by catalogue Future of Individual Library Catalogues Less emphasis on one catalogue per library Shift toward multiple catalogues appearing as one catalogue; shared catalogues; cataloguing or indexing interwoven into the Web (e.g., Google Scholar, Open WorldCat, Libraries Australia) Table 1, Continued: Challenges Facing Traditional cataloguing

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference10 Being a 21 st Century Librarian  Starting points: Technology-driven research, teaching and learning Disintermediation (decrease in guided access to content) Global “infosphere” Accelerating shift in information seekers’ preferences for Web-based information and multimedia formats Librarianship: “There are few professions which contribute so much to the saving of time and to the progress of science.” –Library Journal, 1890

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference11 Geocentric/ Aristotelian view: The local catalogue is the sun Heliocentric/ Copernican view: The local catalogue is a planet

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference12 A New Kind of Cataloguer  Start by examining assumptions  Information objects of all types  Make collections more visible and easier to use

What is “Full”? Examining Assumptions + 3 more screens Product Description & Purchase Information More like this Editorial Reviews & Author Info Inside the Book Tags, Ratings Customer Reviews Lists More With thanks to David Lankes: /ALCTS.pdf Bibliographic Information Library Holdings Details Subjects Editions Reviews Bibliographic Information Australian Library Holdings

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference14 Opportunities for “New Age” Cataloguers  Metadata recycling and reuse Leadership Project management Workflow analysis and quality improvement AND MORE!

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference15 The Continuing Importance of Books  Books and serials are not dead, and they are not yet digital  ARL libraries spent the lion’s share of US$665 million on books and serials in 2004

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference16 The Rise of Special Collections and Archives

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference17 Digitization Projects

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference18 A New Way to Work “Instead of being a hoarder of containers, the library must become the facilitator of retrieval and dissemination.”—William Wulf, 2003 Blakeley, Daniel H. Cornell Center for Materials Research Facility Staff page

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference19 Library Collections on the Network  Library must be where the users’ eyes are Interconnections, interoperability, and information delivery  Offsite storage and the challenge to browsing  Partnerships, partnerships, partnerships  Much more robust and interconnected discovery and content delivery systems “2 ½ cheers for Google.” --Paul Duguid, May , Cornell University

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference20 Picture Australia

Libraries Australia: A World of Information ORAL HISTORIES

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference22 Libraries Australia, CBS and WorldCat  1 July 2007  All Libraries Australia subscribers  Access to WorldCat for cataloguing  Search access for end users  Governing members of OCLC  tralia/questions.html#oclc tralia/questions.html#oclc

Libraries Australia Teratext Libraries Australia CBS LOGLOG PUSH SRU UPDATE M21 WorldCat identifiers, FRBR work id WorldCat SRU UPDATE Synchronization: A Case Study of Metadata Exchange and Reuse

Increasing investment in access systems Help build new kinds of systems for IR and delivery; many new kinds of metadata; emphasis on re-use, interconnections, interoperability Active participation in the university community Blurring of lines between what has been public services and technical services; project and team-based workplaces; involvement in constituents’ projects and digital asset management; consulting work; decreasing involvement in traditional cataloguing duties Technology-driven research, teaching and learning Need for “IT fluency,” esp. metadata specialists; increasing involvement in large-scale digital library research, development, and production projects Table 2 : Forecasts and Implications for Metadata Specialists

Disintermediation and user self-sufficiency Catalogue librarians have always served those who want to work autonomously; metadata specialists will also enhance ease of use through expertise in indexing, data organization and management, access vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies, etc. Rising need for understanding of visualization and other techniques to support browsing. Increasing use of metadata for linking of wide array of information objects Global infosphere, Web-based information, and multimedia Metadata specialists will develop/lobby for standards and best practices, but proliferation of systems and object types will continue; continued need for integrating frameworks and interoperability tools Table 2 Continued: Forecasts and Implications for Metadata Specialists

September 2007Calhoun - ACOC Conference26 Thank You!  Being a Librarian: Metadata and Metadata Specialists in the Twenty- first Century  Library Hi Tech, v25 n2 (Summer 2007)  Preprint 17 December 2004  le/1813/ le/1813/2231