Kinetica is planning to introduce this service in a future release of the software. A further development would be the introduction of the Z39.50 union catalogue profile, which would support the automatic updating of the NBD with a full bibliographic record and holdings. Online cataloguing on Kinetica accounts for a tiny proportion of the cataloguing records on the National Bibliographic Database. These sources are supplemented by original cataloguing created on local systems or provided by book suppliers. Although cataloguing records are significant assets of libraries, and are quite costly to create, they are increasingly regarded a free good.
Some libraries expect cataloguing records to be provided 'free' with the purchase of books.
Other libraries even use the Z39.50 protocol to help themselves to records from the catalogues which other libraries provide for resource discovery purposes. In this environment, there is no future in Kinetica being just a good MARC record shop. This is reflected in the evolving charging policy, which charges for searching and document requesting rather than for cataloguing records. In this light it is interesting to consider the purpose of Table of Contents data. Table of Contents data was previously provided on the NBD to improve the quality of records available for downloading to local catalogues.