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kc
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> On page 7 (page 11 of the PDF document) the draft Report on the
> Future of Bibliographic Control [1] discusses the definition of
> bibliographic control and mentions relationships:
>
> ...Bibliographic control is increasingly a matter of
> managing relationships—among works, names, concepts,
> and object descriptions—across communities. Consistency
> of description within any single environment, such as
> the library catalog, is becoming less significant than
> the ability to make connections between environments:
> Amazon to WorldCat to Google to PubMed to Wikipedia,
> with library holdings serving as but one node in this
> web of connectivity. In today's environment,
> bibliographic control cannot continue to be seen as
> limited to library catalogs.
>
> I think this is a step in the right direction, but not quite far enough.
>
> More specifically, I endorse the idea of relationship-creation, but I
> think it ought to go beyond information resources and include users/
> people. Using authorities and subject analysis is great for creating
> relationships between works. "These works are like those works." At
> the same time, if similar processes where implemented to create
> relationships between works and people, then those people's jobs
> (whether they be patrons or librarians) would be easier. "People like
> me used those resources." "This is my collection." Moreover, if
> relationships were created between people and resources through
> "bibliographic control", then questions like the following could be
> addressed as well: "Who are my patrons", "Who are my librarians", or
> "Who else is interested in this topic".
>
> [1] http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-report-
> draft-11-30-07-final.pdf
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>
>
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