Resource Discovery Infrastructure - what if we were starting from scratch?

Z39.50 Federated Search SRU/SRW FRAD FRBR ISBD AACR2 AACR RDA MARC MAB UKMARC MARC21 OCLC CURL RLG OPAC Catalogue

WOW! Wow!

Ranganathan’s 5 Laws
Books are for use
Every person his or her book
Every book its reader
Save the time of the reader
A library is a growing organism

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All Resources

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Build Indexes, not ‘Catalogues’

Acknowledgements
Cuniform
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewscott/
Alexandrian Library
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ancientlibraryalex.jpg
Bombay Clocks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mybigtrip/

Acknowledgements
Melvil Dewey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey
Davis, Oswald Harcourt, 1882-1962
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yolaleah/
The card catalog
http://www.flickr.com/photos/misshaley/
Hammond Card Cataloger
http://www.libraryhistorybuff.com/library-bureau.htm

Acknowledgements
Charles Cutter
http://www.gslis.mcgill.ca/100th/1904-1930.htm
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tim_Berners-Lee.jpg
Google Logo
http://www.google.co.uk
Yahoo logo
http://uk.yahoo.com

Acknowledgements
Rotunda Spokes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinl8888/
Sheep Portrait
http://www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/
The Pied Piper of Sheep
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kman999/

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Resource Discovery Infrastructure - what if we were starting from scratch?

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