Presented at Industry Symposium, IFLA, 14 August 2008. Describes a new environment of global information services using metadata, taxonomies, and knowledge organization. Makes the case that these changes will permanently affect what it means "to catalog" materials for the purpose of connecting citizens, students and scholars to the information they need, when and where they need it.

1. Karen Calhoun Vice President WorldCat and Metadata Services OCLC OUR Space: the new world of metadata IFLA 13 August 2008

2. The Catalog: First Self-Service Information Tool 2007/2008 Statistics for a Large Research Library: 175K unique visitors/month to Library Web pages (9% of overall site use) ------------------------- 2007/2008 Statistics for Amazon.com: 55M unique visitors/month (U.S.) Data sources: http:// siteanalytics.compete.com / and http:// www.alexa.com /

3. LC Action Item 6.4: “Support research and development on the changing nature of the catalog to include consideration of a framework for its integration with other discovery tools.” Calhoun, Karen. The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 17 March 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf

4. The Catalog in Context Online catalogs represent one node in the end user’s information universe

5. Geocentric/ Aristotelian view: The local catalog is the sun Heliocentric/ Copernican view: The local catalog is a planet

6. Metadata 2.0: ‘Way Cool! Canadian-American actor Keanu Reeves, Matrix Reloaded

8. ebay: User-Supplied Metadata Supported By Sophisticated Web Templates and Indexing Not shown: categories (controlled vocabulary), item specifics, abstract, more

9. Remix, reuse, ‘mashup’: Web 2.0 metadata management http:// www.housingmaps.com / Fed by Google Maps + craigslist.com

10. Metadata + Full Text Searching

11. Which One Is the “Full” Record? + 3 more screens Product Description & Purchase Information More like this Editorial Reviews & Author Info Inside the Book Tags, Ratings Customer Reviews Lists More With thanks to David Lankes: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Presentations/ 2007/ALCTS.pdf Bibliographic Information Library Holdings Details Subjects Editions Reviews Bibliographic Information Australian Library Holdings

15. Libraries and What They Collect on Behalf of Their Communities Books Journals Newspapers Gov. docs CD, DVD Maps Scores Special collections Rare books Local/Historical newspapers Local history materials Archives & Manuscripts, Theses & dissertations

16. Expenditures: What ARL Libraries Are Buying Percent of 2006 total materials spend: eSerials 36.6% Monographs 21.6% Source: ARL Statistics Interactive Edition http:// fisher.lib.virginia.edu/arl/index.html

17. The Promise of Institutional Repositories IR of the Université du Québec à Montréal http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/448/

18. Scholarly Portals arXiv.org Open access to 490,465 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics

19. Exposing Scientific Research: Brazil’s IBICT Electronic Theses and Dissertations

20. Exciting New Digital Collections: Europeana Prototype http:// www.europeana.eu /

22. Scholarly/Community Digital Assets Are Too Often Hidden From the Network http:// isbellandes.library.cornell.edu /

23. http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-jan08-final.pdf 2 ENHANCE ACCESS TO RARE, UNIQUE, AND OTHER SPECIAL HIDDEN MATERIALS

25. Information Seekers Have Changed [ about the people following them ] Butch Cassidy : I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys? http://outnow.ch/Movies/1969/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid/Bilder/dvd-film.ws/11

26. The Changing Context for Research, Teaching, and Learning on University Campuses Knowledge itself will be modified and research and development transformed by the new capacities provided by IT. Nothing will be left untouched. The liberal arts will be revived and transfigured, liberated from their age-long reliance on text alone. The silos of the departments will topple as new approaches to bewildering issues are pursued with new vigor by scholars in mind-boggling combinations of once insular and isolated disciplines. – Frank H. T. Rhodes, past President of Cornell University, in The Creation of the Future

27. The Toppling Silos of the Disciplines and Mind-Boggling New Forms of Scholarly Communication Kurt Wüthrich Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the Scripps Research Institute Fields: Chemistry, physics, mathematics, biophysics --How does the library help him create new knowledge? --What are his information seeking/sharing behaviors and preferences? --In what ways does the library serve his colleagues and his graduate and post-doctoral students?

28. And Then There’s Today’s (and Tomorrow’s) Student No, you weren’t downloaded. You were born.”

32. Will Search Engines Usurp Library Catalogs? College Students’ Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources: a Report to the OCLC Membership : http:// www.oclc.org/reports/perceptionscollege.htm

33. Will Google Books Usurp the Library Catalog? Ludwig, Mark J. and Wells, Margaret R. “Google Books vs. BISON.” Library Journal , July 15, 2008. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6566451.html

34. What If We Do Nothing?

36. 1. Be Where Their Eyes Are La Grande bibliothèque nationale du Québec Attribution: Uploaded on May 8, 2005 by Master Long http://flickr.com/photos/long/12987307/ Library as Place Place as Library

38. BnF

39. The European Library

40. Global: Exposing Library Collections on the Network

41. Global to Group or Local: Driving Searches to Your Library

42. Get It From My Library

45. GLOBAL GROUP LOCAL Outward Integration, Exposure, And Linking Of Collections (e.g., Google, WorldCat, Other aggregators, national libraries, consortia) Local/Group Authentication, Discovery And Delivery Services Data Flows, Syndication, Synchronization, Linking We Can Be Connected: A New Vision for Metadata Sharing

46. WorldCat Partner Sites Google, Google Books, Google Scholar HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources

47. WorldCat.org: Destination or Metadata Switch? It’s a switch. Referrals to worldcat.org, Jan. 1 – May 31, 2008 Search Engines 47.45% Other Web Sites 39.91% Typed/Bookmarked URLs 12.64% Total

48. WorldCat Global Coverage *2007/08:forecast based on Q2 results Objectives for FY09: 300-500M records processed; Significant coverage in more countries outside N.A.

49. Introducing: A New National Library Web Page

50. WorldMap of National Libraries

62. Forecast: Future So Bright, Gotta Wear Shades by Netream http://flickr.com/photos/maerten/521195773/

63. From article “Being a librarian” – cited next page Increasing expertise in discovery and delivery systems Help build new kinds of systems for IR and delivery; many new kinds of metadata; emphasis on re-use, interconnections, interoperability Active participation in the local community Blurring of lines between what has been public services and technical services; project and team-based workplaces; involvement in local community projects and digital asset management; consulting work; decreasing involvement in traditional cataloging duties Technology-driven research, teaching and learning Need for “IT fluency,” esp. metadata specialists; increasing involvement in large-scale digital library research, development, and production projects

64. Thank You Merci Gracias Shukran Xie xie Danke Spasibo [email_address] http:// community.oclc.org/metalogue Calhoun, Karen. Being a librarian: metadata and metadata specialists in the 21st century. Library Hi Tech , Volume 25, Number 2, 2007 , pp. 174-187(14) Open access preprint: http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/2231/1/Calhoun-20041217-final-preprint1.pdf