An overview of some issues around the design and future of library catalogs in a network environment.

1. The network rewrites the catalog Lorcan Dempsey University of Virginia Libraries April 26 2007

2. Overview Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

3. 1 The network rewrites behaviors

5. ~18 months old No FaceBook, MySpace Library?

6. University of Minnesota http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/KM%20JStor%20Presentation.pps

7. Chris Beckett http://www.scholinfo.com/presentations/2006/8/10/the-new-world-order-in-collection-development-the-commercial-perspective.html

8. Database > website > workflow

9. Prefabricated (e.g. CMS) Self assembled digital identity

13. 2 A webscale library experience

14. A library experience which matches the experience of the web?

18. Print Licensed Digital Research & learning outputs … Catalog Metasearch Resolver Repositories … Repositories … ILS ERM Knowledgebase

19. … Management environment User environment Switch: delivery, routing, resolution

22. library Consumer environments Management environment Licensed Bought Faculty& students Digitized Aggregations Resource sharing Integrated local user environment? Library web presence Resource sharing, … … Institutional Workflow Portals, CMS, IR, … Personal Workflow RSS, toolbars, .. Network level workflow Google, …

32. University of Washington on WorldCat.org (screen shot)

33. Holdings: Local, Group, Global Summit collections Univ Washington collections WorldCat

34. Detailed record – item held by UW

35. Personal and social

39. Detailed record – request item

40. Request handled locally

41. Item not held by UW or Summit

42. Article citations

43. Article citations

59. 3 Some current catalog responses