Awesome, smart takeoff of Lady Gaga's song Poker Face. Best line: "I'll blow your mind, show you how to find."
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- Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California: Final Report: December 2005
- White Paper on the Future of Cataloging at Indiana University, January 15, 2006
- Deanna B. Marcum, The Future of Cataloging, January 16, 2005
- Karen Calhoun, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools: Final Report, March 17, 2006
- Library of Congress Professional Guild, Future of Cataloging (various articles including Thomas Mann's critique of the Calhoun Report)
- Library of Congress, Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
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- Karen Calhoun, Being a Librarian: Metadata and Metadata Specialists in the Twenty-first Century, December 2004
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- ALCTS and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Challenges, Actions, and Values, January 4, 2007
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- IFLA, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
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- Minerva Shelved, Cataloger Call [blog post], April 5, 2007
- Planet Cataloging
- MARC Content Designation Utilization » MCDU Home
- IFLA, Functional Requirements for Authority Data: A Conceptual Model (FRAD)
- Karen Calhoun, "Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data": Response to Background Paper, July 9, 2007
- Diane I. Hillmann, Adding New Skills to our Skillset, July 2007
- Martha M. Yee, Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation? July 2007
- IFLA, Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
- David Bade, Structures, standards, and the people who make them meaningful, May 9, 2007
- Diane I. Hillmann, Structures and Standards for Our Bibliographic Future, May 9, 2007 [ppt]
- Alan Danskin, "Tomorrow never knows": the end of cataloguing?, June 6, 2006
- Metadata Services, Cornell University Library
- Chris Oliver, Changing to RDA, 2007
- Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Cataloging and Metadata Education: A Proposal for Preparing Cataloging Professionals of the 21st Century, April 2003
- On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, January 9, 2008
- Robert Wolven, In Search of a New Model, January 15, 2008
- CPSO, Library of Congress Subject Headings: Pre- vs.Post-Coordination and Related Issues, June 13, 2007
- Thomas Mann, "On the Record" but Off the Track, March 14, 2008
- Karen Coyle and Diane Hillmann, Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century, January 2007
- Martha M. Yee's home page
- ALA - ALCTS website
- Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA)
- DCMI/RDA Task Group Wiki
- Norm Medeiros, The catalog's last stand, 2007
- Richard Gartner, Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and future directions, April 2008
- Francis Miksa, The Genius of Library Cataloging and its Possible Future, March 6, 2006 [Audio file]
- Karen Markey, The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?, January 2007
Love it!
Best line: "Don't forget the databases!"
Posted by: Sylvia Pachecano | Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 09:52 AM
Thank you! Came across this researching an essay.
This looks much more fun!
Posted by: Darren | Saturday, May 29, 2010 at 01:25 PM
quite funny and good - I'll be passing this along to the other catalogers I work with
Posted by: arkham | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 at 09:10 AM
Thanks for the comments. I have some more cataloging humor to post. Stay tuned!
Posted by: Christine Schwartz | Thursday, June 03, 2010 at 09:30 AM
How much fun!
Brilliant. Love the 'use the thesaurus to find terms that work' bit.
Posted by: maria-jose | Friday, June 04, 2010 at 06:19 AM
Wow! can you post this also to teachertube so that we can embed it?
Posted by: Lauren Kipaan | Saturday, June 05, 2010 at 06:44 AM
Hi Lauren,
I've registered for teachertube. I just want to make sure it's okay to upload other people's videos from YouTube.
Posted by: Christine Schwartz | Tuesday, June 08, 2010 at 01:02 PM