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Fishing for information.(TECHNOLOGY Up CLOSE)(Fish4Info)
The general consensus in the biblioblogosphere is that OPACs (online public access catalogs) suck. I'm just as apprehensive about next-generation OPACs. That's akin to discussing tools in the late Stone Age. Granted, there were very impressive advances in flint knapping, but in the end, it was basically banging two rocks together.
OPACs, no matter the generation, are about delivering MARC records to users--who aren't looking for MARC records. To define the principles behind a truly next-generation library experience, I wrote a catalog manifesto.
1) The catalog is not ours, We librarians have many professional tools. Is it too much to ask that we provide one …
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- Children's Catalog. 18th Ed. (Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog,...
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Magazine article from: School Library Journal
Young, Terrence E., Jr.
August 1, 2004
700+ words
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- A World Library Catalog Is Closer after New Deals
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Magazine article from: American Libraries
October 1, 1988
700+ words
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- FRBRization of a Library Catalog: Better Collocation of Records, Leading to...
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Magazine article from: Information Technology and Libraries
Dickey, Timothy J.
March 1, 2008
700+ words
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- Digital Collection Management through the Library Catalog
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Magazine article from: Information Technology and Libraries
Brenner, Michaela Larsen, Tom Weston, Claudia
June 1, 2006
700+ words
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- Toward a Twenty-First Century Library Catalog
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Magazine article from: Information Technology and Libraries
Antelman, Kristin Lynema, Emily Pace, Andrew K.
September 1, 2006
700+ words
