And with links to the outside world. To Google, to Amazon to Wikipedia and
why not also the possiblity to write a review or opinion, pictures,
films that
makes the experience more rich, a long tail of added information.
Jan
Dobbs, Aaron wrote:
> What is "the catalog"?
> Which, to me, breaks out in at least the following three directions:
>
> Should/can the catalog be a broad discovery layer?
> -Inclusive of all of an individual libraries informational holdings?
> -Inclusive of [all or many or a distinct subset of] libraries information?
> -Inclusive of article/chapter/phrase level data?
> -Inclusive of availability data?
>
> Should/can the catalog be an authoritative inventory tool?
> -Inclusive of authoritative known-item searches down to every MARC tag level?
> -Inclusive of all of an individual libraries informational holdings?
> -Inclusive of [all or many or a distinct subset of] libraries information?
> -Inclusive of article/chapter/phrase level data?
> -Inclusive of availability data?
>
> Should/can the catalog be a one-stop tool for both discovery and inventory as described above?
>
> -Aaron
> :-)'
>
> PS also not rhetorical questions :)
>
> Success is getting what you want.
> Happiness is wanting what you get.
> -Dale Carnegie
>
>
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och inte ett uttryck för Göteborgs universitets-
biblioteks hållning
Opinions expressed here are my own and not
those of the Gothenburg University Library
Jan Szczepanski
Förste bibliotekarie
Goteborgs universitetsbibliotek
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Received on Fri Feb 13 2009 - 09:42:05 EST