Eric Hellman wrote:
We need good global metadata catalog/registries. Which of today's
catalog functions will require a local institutional catalog tomorrow?
I think this is an interesting question.
My opinion is that the libraries of tomorrow will have a distributed catalogue:
some of it
On Jun 7, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Conal Tuohy wrote:
As well as their MARC records, each library of the future will
collect a growing variety of metadata about their holdings, lending
histories, reviews contributed by users, clusters harvested from
usage patterns, or from full-text transcriptions,
Eric Hellman wrote:
Let's consider another function of a library catalog- resource
discovery for users.
Does anyone here really believe that in TEN years Google and/or
competitors (maybe even mine) won't be able to hook into an inventory
control system and deliver full-text, faceted,
The Evergreen software development team is proud to announce the
Evergreen ILS Beta release. Evergreen is an open-source ILS being
developed by the Georgia Public Library Service for PINES[1], a
consortium of over 250 public libraries. The Evergreen ILS is scheduled
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