Catalogue 2.0
Subtitle: The future of the library catalogue
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781856047166
Description: New digital technologies, the Internet, and user expectations have changed the role of the catalogue in libraries considerably in recent years. This timely book takes into account developments that influence catalogue potential and patrons needs, such as competition from popular Web sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Here, key leaders in the field like OCLC. This book also explores concepts like: -What do your users want? Designing the catalogue for the end user ; Making search work for the library user search ; Beyond the catalogue: expanding the scope of search ; From catalogue to digital library : rethinking metadata management in the web age ; The mobile library catalogue -The facets of FRBR: FRBRising your catalogue ; Enabling your catalogue for the semantic web Librarians and information professionals will find practical guidance on customizing their catalogues to keep them up to date with the latest trends in technology in this authoritative manual.
Table of contents: title: Foreword - Marshall Breeding; title: Introduction - Sally Chambers; label: 1.
title: Next generation catalogues: what do users think? - Anne Christensen; label: 2.
title: Making search work for the library user  - Till Kinstler; label: 3.
title: Next-generation discovery: an overview of the European Scene - Marshall Breeding; label: 4.
title: The mobile library catalogue - Lukas Koster and Driek Heesakkers; label: 5.
title: FRBRizing your catalogue - Rosemie Callewaert; label: 6.
title: Enabling your catalogue for the semantic web - Emmanuelle Bermes; label: 7.
title: Supporting digital scholarship: bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositories - Karen Calhoun; label: 8.
title: Thirteen ways of look at the libraries, discovery and the catalogue: scale, workflow, attention - Lorcan Dempsey