Before you get to the tasks, I think you have to define what the catalog
represents. In most cases, the catalog represents those items held by a
library. So your user tasks take place within that context. To make that
explicit, statements below should be modified to read:
* Clearly display
While that's a description of most typical library catalogs at the
moment, I'm not sure that's a good limit on the utility, purpose, or
intention of metadata created through the cataloging process.
Worldcat, for instance, is an exception. I think it's probably
possible and desirable to create
This may be blasphemy, but I'm not sure how useful catalog is as a
framework for discussing RDA or the future of bibliographic control. In
the last few years, our local catalog has become much more amorphous,
and use has declined even as the number of bibliographic records has
mushroomed. Our
J. McRee Elrod wrote:
When we speak of keyword searching do we not also mean phrase
searching using quotation marks?
It seems like, meanwhile, everybody assumes something like this.
There can be no doubt from where this understanding originates.
But to the best of my knowledge, there's no
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