A mailing list has been created called NGC4Lib -- Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries. See:
http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/ngc4lib/ NGC4Lib is open to anybody in the world, and its purpose is to discuss things including but not limited to: * Who are the primary intended audiences for a library's "card catalog"? * Considering the changing nature of information access in an Internet environment, how is an electronic "card catalog" of today different from the one designed ten or fifteen years ago? * What kind of content should these "card catalogs" contain? * To what degree are these things "catalogs" (as in inventory lists), and to what degree are they finding aids? * To what degree should traditional cataloging practices be used in such a thing, or to what degree should new and upcoming practices such as FRBR be exploited? * How would such a thing get created and by whom? * What are some of the functionalities of "next generation" catalog? Mailing list functions To subscribe send an email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of your message enter "subscribe ngc4lib Your Name" where "Your Name" is... your name. To send a message to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and send "unsubscribe ngc4lib". You can also use this link to manage your subscription: http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LMGT1=ngc4lib An archive of the mailing list's postings are available from these two URL's: 1. http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/ngc4lib/archive/ 2. http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/ngc4lib.html -- Eric "I Hope Something Doesn't Go Wrong" Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604 I'm hiring a Senior Programmer Analyst. See http://dewey.library.nd.edu/morgan/programmer/.
