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The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006
Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006.
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
The Calhoun report draws unjustified conclusions about the digital age, inflates wishful thinking, fails to make critical distinctions, and disregards (as well as mischaracterizes) an alternative “niche” strategy for research libraries, to promote scholarship (rather than increase “market position”).
The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2007
An examination of the overall principles and practices of both reference service and cataloging operations in the promotion of scholarly research, pointing out important differences not just in content available onsite and offsite, but also among necessary search techniques. It specifies the differences between scholarship and quick information seeking.
Resolution on the Library of Congress Management’s Decision to Cease the Production of Series Authority Records
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2006
What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating its professional responsibilities to the national system of shared cataloging, as well as undermining its core mission to acquire, catalog, make accessible, and preserve its own unparalleled holdings–especially its book collections.
Will Google’s Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2005
Google Print does not "change everything" regarding the need for professional cataloging and classification of books; its limitations make cataloging and classification even more important to researchers. Google’s keyword search mechanism, backed by the display of results in "relevance ranked" order, is expressly designed and optimized for quick information seeking rather than scholarship.

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