Thinking About The Catalog By Lorcan Dempsey

We all have seen his name Lorcan Dempsey has his fingers on the pulse of Information Professional issues,

Lorcan is reviewing the UC report on bibliographic infrastructure and how they should be constructed and maintained.  Also, how NCSU has implemented suggestion from UC report.

some things he took from the report include:

• Services- ranked in meaningful way
• Bibliographic structure-schema appropriateness
• At the point of need-be where the user is
• Discovery-pull of bibliographic universe
• Technical processing-cost reduction of bibliographic mgmt
• Platform and organization-what to build a unified platform on
• Value-knowledge of inefficiencies

We have not redeem the full value of bibliographic investment intricate to library mission. The role of the catalog in relation to wider bibliographic database structures is an consideration when thinking about the catalog.  Innovation in bibliographic development can only improve access to users and structural improvements in catalogs such as, erasing boundaries btw databases.  OCLC is the authoritative  expert who can lead the way for many points discussed in the UC report.