Bibliographic Control Has a Future

Posted On Mar 7 2007 by

Bibliographic control does have a future. Though, after spending 30 minutes last night describing the problem to my wife, I sure wish we had called it “the future of finding stuff online.” I’m headed out this morning for a meeting convened by the Library of Congress’s working group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. It is an austere group that I think has real potential to make some serious recommendations. Boy, that sounded like I’m running for office, didn’t it? Anyway, I am giving a short presentation on “New Services,” which is really just a euphemism for the fact that …