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1. Article 1
Toward a Twenty-First Century Catalog
Blong and Breitbart (2009) developed The Virtual Shelf “a visualization and collection building
interface for the Open Library collection that combines many of the features and benefits of both
physical and digital information systems” (2).
Schwartz (2020) studied discovery layer interfaces employed by five academic libraries to determine
how libraries can address the problem of users receiving too many hits when conducting a search.
Article 2
The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools
Spiteri and Tarulli (2012) studied logs generated over the course of four month by social discovery
systems employed in two Canadian public libraries. Social discovery systems allow users to interact
with the catalog and with other users.
Julien et al. (2012) developed a 3D visualization of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
using a branching tree structure. This work has the potential to alter the discovery process by
influencing the development of next-generation discovery layers for online public access library
catalogs (OPACs).
Article 5
Positioning Libraries for a New Bibliographic Universe
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Maltese and Giunchiglia (2016) propose centralization of access to information, defining data models,
authority control, and “the development of a broad range of services” as solutions to created
interconnectedness between separate “information silos” that exist in universities (10:2-10:3).
Maltese and Giunchiglia (2017) define Digital Universities as “a set of key resources and tools
appropriately organized to effectively support universities’ users” (46). The authors describe
“methodologies, data models, authority control mechanisms, and system infrastructures” required to
implement Digital Universities (Maltese and Giunchiglia, 2017, 26).
Article 11
Preparing the Way: Creating Future Compatible Cataloging Data in a Transitional Environment
Myntti and Neatrour (2015) describe efforts at the University of Utah to clean up the library’s metadata
with the goal of reconciling the data with existing controlled vocabularies. Automation played an
important role in this effort to ensure catalog compatibility with future systems.
Mountantonakis (2019) surveyed efforts to implement the promise of linked data including linking and
integration. By categorizing approaches to linked data integration Mountantonakis (2019) identified
potential future directions for cataloging research.