ALA Midwinter: Moving Library Services to the Network Level

ALCTS Forum
Moving Library Services to the Network Level
January 14, 2008

Speakers: Matt Goldner, Karen Calhoun, Diana Brooking, Glenn Patton

One of the necessary skills for future catalogers/metadata librarians is the ability to think creatively about metadata and how we communicate with our users. I really liked this forum. Instead of giving us all the answers, the OCLC presenters posed questions and invited us to think creatively about how we could take metadata management to the Web.

I was surprised that the Wikipedia model for WorldCat metadata enrichment was unthinkable to a couple of the catalogers at the forum. The cataloging community desperately needs to step back, set aside economics and current workflows, and imagine a different way of doing things. These PowerPoint slides with the speakers' notes contain the kind of questions we need to be asking ourselves.

• Web-Scale Cataloging and Metadata Management
  (Matt Goldner/Karen Calhoun, OCLC - PDF of PowerPoint slides, with notes)
• Rethinking WorldCat Maintenance
  (Glenn Patton, OCLC - PDF of PowerPoint slides, with notes)
• Network Level Cataloging: The View from a Member Library
  (Diana Brooking, University of Washington - PowerPoint)

Comments

[Matt Ostercamp]

Thanks for the updates and perspectives from midwinter. They are very helpful.