tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post5384269189309856595..comments2023-09-29T08:51:56.163-07:00Comments on Coyle's InFormation: Precipitating ForwardKaren Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-71301783813479994442017-07-11T14:46:43.804-07:002017-07-11T14:46:43.804-07:00Ah, yes. Berkeley had a section like that as well,...Ah, yes. Berkeley had a section like that as well, and I don't remember what it was called. I do remember a library director from a large midwestern university library who once said: "Our cataloging backlog is the second largest collection in [state]." That was the other precipitating factor: cataloging backlogs. I wonder if ARL or anyone kept data on those. I don't think there is nearly the problem today.Karen Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-42482486200786607892017-07-11T13:21:20.540-07:002017-07-11T13:21:20.540-07:00Smiling at your mention of the University of Calif...Smiling at your mention of the University of California card filing backlog. When I was in library school, I worked on a half-million card backlog at a midwestern university library that shall remain nameless. Books corresponding to those backlogged cards were shelved in special (browsable) stacks, by acquisition number, until the cards were filed, at which the a temporary slip was removed from the shelflist and the book was relocated to its proper place in the regular stacks. Wish I could remember the cleverly euphemistic name by which that temporary collection was known... JB Nyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18219990602938123094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-88782598694935081352017-05-13T08:40:37.396-07:002017-05-13T08:40:37.396-07:00Well, we already have a huge shared cataloging dat...Well, we already have a huge shared cataloging database in WorldCat (http://worldcat.org) with over 70K participating libraries. The main hurdles are:<br /><br />1) money<br />2) a stable organization to manage it<br />3) data standards that aid de-duplication<br /><br />Although we have a near universal data standard in ISO 2709 (see: http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/ for a freely available version) bibliographic data is mainly text and can vary significantly for perfectly good reasons. The big hurdle is getting to a single entry for each single bibliographic "thing" while still serving the needs of local users. <br /><br />4) manageable updates of local holdings<br /><br />There's not much use having a bibliographic database if it doesn't tell you if the item is available to you, either physically or digitally. I think we need a cloud of bibliographic data and then a large distributed network to manage local and personal access. This network needs to reduce the burden on local inventories, which are often running on cheap systems that can easily be overwhelmed. Those systems are vendor-supplied, have minimal if any APIS, and are not easily modified; they would need some software that pushes updates to the network, which would carry most of the query burden. <br /><br />It's an interesting problem and one that I would like to see studied further. Go for it!Karen Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-18955842873587474022017-05-12T08:04:49.704-07:002017-05-12T08:04:49.704-07:00It's a blogger thing - it changes based on the...It's a blogger thing - it changes based on the country in which it is viewed. In the US it's just .comKaren Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.com