1. Is Cataloging Dead: Advocacy for Bibliographic Control Randy Roeder and Rebecca Routh ILA/ACRL Spring Conference Davenport, Iowa March 3, 2008

2. What catalogers do …

3. “What catalogers are like … “Set in their ways” “Blindly follow the rules” “Cranky, anti-social” “Put the periods in the records.” “Nit-picky perfectionists” “Out of date when it’s out of backlog.”

4. What catalogers hear from others… “Description is not important” “No one does subject searches” “Full text searching makes metadata obsolete” “Cataloging is too expensive”

5. So, how did we get to this disconnect? (made buggy whip obsolete)

6. The chains of the past … MARC AACR2 local practice

7. LCSH is showing its age … largest controlled vocabulary in English language (good) designed for an alphabetical environment (bad) pre-coordinated (bad) often too general

8. “Failures of catalogers …” assume the value of their work is self- evident tend to view their work as an endless stream of materials to be processed focus on the resource, not its use tend to ignore hard-to-catalog resources (the long tail)

9. New Directions

10. New Roles for the Library of Congress

11. WoGroFuBiCo  Eliminate redundancies  Re-design work flows to make data more accessible  Recycle data from other sources  Focus on the “long tail” (unique and rare collections)  Think and plan for global access

12. OCLC record

13. OPAC record

14. All that’s needed is one good record

15. The analog past Curses! Oh dear…another goof!

17. ONIX for Books

19. Internet Movie Database

20. WorldCat Identities

23. The Long Tail Unique and rare items Archival materials Hidden collections Digital projects

24. VIAF Project Virtual International Authority File Cooperation between OCLC, Library of Congress, die deutsche Bibliothek Links authority records from different national libraries Name registries and subject headings Multilingual, multi-script, with variations in spelling and romanization

25. The next generation catalog is affecting cataloging results not alphabetically displayed not premised on the retrieval of print material no decisions about format or location before search no a trip to another ‘silo’ to retrieve digital content does not ignore the social side of research

26. One-box metasearch (Are we there yet?)

28. Easy integration of digital resources

29. Recommendations & more …

30. Integrated instructional content

31. Faceted browse & relevance ranking

32. WorldCat Local The shot heard ‘round the world…

33. Inexpensive ‘next gen’ catalog?

34. Does not display local record!

35. Jane Eyre the Novel Author Title Genre Period Subject

36. Editors Publishers Printers The Book

37. Book in translation Parallel titles Translators

38. The Film Adaptation Writer Director Producer Actors Crew Distributors

39. The Remakes

40. The Music Composer Lyricist Librettist Performers Recording studios

41. The flat record model One record contains all entities Navigation awkward Relationships unclear Redundant

42. FRBR Relational Model

43. “Bibliographic control is increasingly a matter of managing relationships—among works, names, concepts, and object descriptions—across communities.” Report of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, January 2008

44. Successor to Anglo-American Cataloging Rules Based on FRBR data model Content standards for all formats Guidelines for best practice Online resource International in scope Coming soon

45. Advocating for more of this will fail…

46. A better vision A web page for every book, film, recording Collaborative bibliographic data Linked author & publisher information Relationships -- editions, formats and languages Linked critical works & scholarship “A community of experts” adding value

47. Cataloging staff training for a new skill set working in a more collaborative environment more accountability

48. Cataloging isn’t dead -- it’s changing.