Coyle's InFormation

There's been talk and action lately around libraries making use of data provided by publishers or retailers. What little experience I ha...

Notes from the meeting on Nov. 13 of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. These are my notes and should NOT be taken to...

The use of hierarchy as an organizing principle keeps coming up. I think we are attracted to hierarchy because of its neatness, even though ...

Lately I've had occasion to work with a few different groups of people who are delving into library bibliographic data for the first tim...

No, I'm not sending libraries to the emergency room, although there are days when I feel like we're at that point. The ER in the tit...

As if in response to my post on name authorities , OCLC has come up with a version of the Virtual International Authority File (acronym VIAF...

Something pointed me to this paper by Alan Danskin of the British Library: Tomorrow never knows: the end of cataloging? It has some well-spo...