Future of Cataloging: Key Resources

• ALA - ALCTS website
• Alan Danskin, "Tomorrow never knows": the end of cataloguing?, June 6, 2006
• ALCTS and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Challenges, Actions, and Values, January 4, 2007
• Blogs About Catalogs and Cataloging
• Cataloging for the 21st Century
• Chris Oliver, Changing to RDA, 2007
• Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA)
• Conference on Bibliographic Control in the New Millennium (Library of Congress), 2000
• CPSO, Library of Congress Subject Headings: Pre- vs.Post-Coordination and Related Issues, June 13, 2007
• David Bade, Structures, standards, and the people who make them meaningful, May 9, 2007
• DCMI/RDA Task Group Wiki
• Deanna B. Marcum, The Future of Cataloging, January 16, 2005
• Diane I. Hillmann, Adding New Skills to our Skillset, July 2007
• Diane I. Hillmann, Structures and Standards for Our Bibliographic Future, May 9, 2007
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
• Francis Miksa, The Genius of Library Cataloging and its Possible Future, March 6, 2006 (Audio file)
• futurelib wiki
• IFLA, Functional Requirements for Authority Data: A Conceptual Model (FRAD)
• IFLA, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
• IFLA, Statement of International Cataloguing Principles
• Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Cataloging and Metadata Education: A Proposal for Preparing Cataloging Professionals of the 21st Century, April 2003
• Karen Calhoun, "Economics and Organization of Bibliographic Data": Response to Background Paper, July 9, 2007
• Karen Calhoun, Being a Librarian: Metadata and Metadata Specialists in the Twenty-first Century, December 2004
• Karen Calhoun, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools: Final Report, March 17, 2006
• Karen Coyle and Diane Hillmann, Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century, January 2007
• Karen Markey, The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?, January 2007
• Library of Congress Professional Guild, Future of Cataloging (various articles including Thomas Mann's critique of the Calhoun Report)
• Library of Congress, Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
• MARC Content Designation Utilization » MCDU Home
• Martha M. Yee's home page
• Martha M. Yee, Will The Response Of The Library Profession To The Internet Be Self-Immolation? July 2007
• Metadata Services, Cornell University Library
• Minerva Shelved, Cataloger Call [blog post], April 5, 2007
• Norm Medeiros, The catalog's last stand, 2007
• On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, January 9, 2008
• ONIX (Online Information Exchange)
• PennTags /tag/cataloging
• Planet Cataloging
• RDA: Resource Description and Access website
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) / W3C Semantic Web Activity
• Rethinking How We Provide Bibliographic Services for the University of California: Final Report: December 2005
• Richard Gartner, Metadata for digital libraries: state of the art and future directions, April 2008
• Robert Wolven, In Search of a New Model, January 15, 2008
• Standards (The Library of Congress)
• Thomas Mann, "On the Record" but Off the Track, March 14, 2008
• White Paper on the Future of Cataloging at Indiana University, January 15, 2006

List provided by Christine Schwartz, also available from her blog, Cataloging Futures