Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Changing Nature of the Library Catalog

From a recent Library of Congress Report: "The library catalog is such an asset. Today, a large and growing number of students and scholars routinely bypass library catalogs in favor of other discovery tools, and the catalog represents a shrinking proportion of the universe of scholarly information. The catalog is in decline, its processes and structures are unsustainable, and change needs to be swift. "