In this week’s reading, The
first 30 years of the Internet through the lens of an academic library,
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya mentions that in 1982, patrons at University of
Illinois used bibliographic database system like OCLC or RLIN, both database of
MARC catalog records, to locate a book. Moreover, the author points out the
development of local integrated catalog from card catalog to online public
access catalogs in the library technology environment.
The discussion about online cataloging reminds me of the
speech, The Power of Shared Library Data
at the Network Level, at ALA Annual in Chicago June 29, 2013.
In the speech, Ted Fons, OCLC Executive Director, Data
Services and WorldCat Quality Management, and Richard Wallis, OCLC Technology
Evangelist, demonstrated why we must use the latest ideas and technologies to
make our shared library data consumable by Web services and rethink the model
of shared cataloging.
The widespread of network contributed to the appearance of
online cataloging couple years ago. Unfortunately, now few librarians realize
that it's not enough to have collections accessible only through an online
catalog, but need to weave library data throughout the Web. This speech can
initiate professional librarians’ thinking on management of entities on the
web.
Ted Fons, Richard Wallis. “The Power of Shared Library Data at the Network Level”. OCLC. 29 June. 2013. Web. 2 Feb. 2014.
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