[Sigcr-l] "Year of cataloging" workshop thread

[Mark Lindner]

Dear all,

I like Jane Greenberg's tie-in to the WG report.  Cataloging (or
bibliographic control or ...) IS (or must become) broader than an old school
view of library cataloging.  To me, cataloging serves as the inclusive term,
even though metadata (work) should be the inclusive term.

Perhaps, for instance, we do not need to get into the finer philosophical
nuances of the Dublin Core Abstract Model, unless it can be explicitly
related to what we need to be doing with our library data to be operate in
the worlds we currently and soon inhabit.  (And it can, of course.)

But we do need to think far more broadly than "just" MARC, AACR2 => RDA,
ILS, blah blah.

I do support some limits on what the topic includes so that we have some
amount of coherence in what is submitted/presented, but I certainly would
like to see "cataloging" viewed in a somewhat expansive way.

Thanks,

Mark

Mark R. Lindner
Visiting Serials Cataloger
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Diane Neal <dneal2 at uwo.ca> wrote:

> I have been following this discussion carefully so far. I would be
> interested in hearing from those of you who would like a broader scope for
> next year's workshop, as well as from those who might have completely
> different ideas for the workshop. If you are not comfortable with emailing
> the whole list, please contact your faithful newly-elected officers directly
> (dneal2 at uwo.ca; megan at ischool.utexas.edu).
>
> Thanks, and I look forward to working with all of you!
>
> Diane Neal
> SIG-CR Chair
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