Cataloging Matters Podcast
Library Cataloging

Cataloging Matters Podcast


James Weinheimer has made available another Cataloging Matters Podcast, Cataloging Matters No. 17: Catalog Records as Data.
Hello everyone and welcome to Cataloging Matters, a series of podcasts about the future of libraries and cataloging, coming to you from the most beautiful, and the most romantic city in the world, Rome, Italy. My name is Jim Weinheimer.

We hear that the problem with catalog records is that they are not data. This means that the records are meant primarily for display and consequently, are of very limited use in the new information environments. What does this mean and, I question, is it correct?




- Problems With Library Catalogs
Catalog Matters Podcast no. 18: Problems with Library Catalogs by James Weinheimer is available. In the last episode, I provided some examples of how people want to manipulate data instead of plowing their way through masses of printed text but I went...

- Cataloging Matters
I should have already mentioned this, but better late than never. Cataloging Matters is a podcast by Jim Weinheimer (who is already well known and respected from his participation in AUTOCAT and his weblog First Thus. He has already released the third...

- Yee's Cataloging Rules
Martha M. Yee has updated her suggested cataloging rules and RDF model.This is still a work in progress, so I would love to hear more suggestions for improvement from anyone who can afford the time to look it all over. James Weinheimer is helping me work...

- Librarypages Podcast
Here is a new library science podcast, Librarypages Podcast. The initial episode is a discussion on cataloging with Dr. Shawne D. Miksa. That's a good start.Are you curious about issues that go on in the world of library science; even if it isn't...

- Z39.50
The article "What OCLC and RLIN don't want you to know about the future of cataloging" by Jeffrey Beall PNLA Quarterly v. 66, no. 3 (Spring 2002) is mentioned in the OCLC in the PowerPoint presentation "Non-Member Use of Cataloging Records". He considers...



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