OCLC Symposium for Publishers and Libraries

As posted recently to the AUTOCAT listserv:

OCLC recently held a "Symposium for Publishers and Libraries" last month to discuss "metadata needs, practices, lifecycle and economics across the communities and to explore opportunities for change." Check it out: OCLC's Symposium for Publishers and Libraries http://www.oclc.org/publisher-symposium/default.htm

When you read "metadata," your head should translate that to cataloging and indexing.

Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want

As posted to the AUTOCAT list:

The research report, "Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want",
is now available for order and download. Authored by an OCLC research
team headed by Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata
Services, the report presents findings about the data quality
expectations of catalog end users and librarians.

Please visit http://www.oclc.org/reports/onlinecatalogs/default.htm to
order the report, download a copy and to learn more.

The Online Catalogs report offers:
* Insight for readers seeking to define requirements for improved
catalog data
* Information about the metadata elements that are most important
to end users in determining if an item will meet his or her needs
* Support for the enhancements end users and librarians would like
to see made in online library catalogs
* Insight into the end user's discovery experience
* Findings for readers in areas associated with contributing,
synchronizing or linking data from multiple sources in library catalogs
and integrated library systems

The MARC of the beast...

Some insider baseball library talk... Good prep for those of you in my Intro to Cataloging class. Check out this post on Thingology.