Future Trends In Cataloging

Where No Cataloger Has Gone Before…

Nicole Arbuckle, VP Metadata Services

Changing Trends

• Processes

• Formats

Processing

More Publishers and Distributors Providing MARC

• Almost instant record for your catalog

• Varying degrees of quality

If enough of you ask for it, they will provide!

•Some don’t know what MARC is or that you’d want it

Processing

Shared Cataloging• State Systems, Consortia, Specialized Libraries

• Pool of skills benefits the whole• Languages• Formats

Processing

Vendor Cataloging

Why outsource?• Increasing demands on catalogers• Staff reduction

Using vendors can mean…• New acquisitions processed more quickly and backlogs

reduced• Time for other duties• BUT what’s the cost of quality?

AC Obtaining New Bibs

Physical Processing

Backlogs All Materials No or Minimal Review of

Vendor Records

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%Outsourcing In Libraries

2011-20122013

Sources: Primary Research Group, Inc., “The Survey of Academic Library Cataloging Practices,” 2011-2012 and 2013 editions.

Formats

• Just over half of Backstage’s library clients request that original records be done in RDA.• All libraries will accept copy records in either AACR2 or

RDA. Only a small percentage want RDA elements added into AACR2 copy.• Publishers are slower to change to RDA – most seem to

only when enough of their library clients request it!

Linked Data – linkeddata.org

Linked Data – linkeddata.org

OCLC has a short video introducing the concept:

“Linked Data for Libraries” – on YouTube or their sitewww.oclc.org/data.html

http://www.loc.gov/bibframe• Replacement for MARC• Uses RDF format – similar to

XML

Blah

Source: http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/docs/bibframe-relationships.html#works

“This tool is a front end input tool that can be integrated with a back end datastore to create original BIBFRAME descriptions, store them, and recall them for editing. We expect this tool to help experimenters create implementations that will test elements of the BIBFRAME model and vocabulary, in addition to linked data aspects of the BIBFRAME initiative.”

– Sally McCallum, LC, email to Bibframe listerv

Editor demo is online:http://bibframe.org/tools/editor/