CaMMS ForumAnaheim Convention Center

June 22, 2012

John Myers, Catalog LibrarianUnion College, Schenectady NY

myersj@union.edu

Reimaging the library catalog: changing user needs, changing

functionality

I’m just a simple country cataloger Jim! I’m not a metadata magician!

Where we started

Where we are

Where the world is

Where could we go

In a world increasingly shaped by the interoperability of an Apple and Google experience and by information “push”, how can catalog data be made to feel like a comfortable beach or safe cove in the information stream rather than a formidable and inaccessible cliff?

What the ILS did to bring together disparate files and functions for library staff, the future catalog and its infrastructure should do for the user with respect to the multitude of information resources and venues.