A National Union Catalogue for the Future? Challenges, Opportunities, Pathways

A National Union Catalogue for the Future?

Challenges, Opportunities, Pathways…

Joy Palmer, MimasJoy.palmer@manchester.ac.uk

@joypalmer

Currently, the primary academic use case for Copac is to identify specific physical texts. This is rapidly changing. The ‘right’ text is not necessarily a specific text, but the one that is readily available online at point of need.

Is there a future business case for Copac? (or a ‘national union catalogue’?)

What business are we in?

Disappearing as an individually identifiable component of the library service… the classic catalogue itself is receding from view… [Lorcan Dempsey, 2011]

Function of the catalogue is “rebundled” in changing network environments [Lorcan Dempsey, 2011]

Leveraging Linked Data: A Question of scaleLinked and Open Copac and Archives Hub (LOCAH)

Attention!

The Social Network

Another question of scale.What if this represented a national aggregation of activity data?

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A problem (and solution) shared?

“SCONUL proposes the creation of a national digital library, based on a shared service model, to provide access to core collections of materials for all higher education providers in a much more cost effective way by avoiding unecessary duplication of effort, and levelling the playing field for negotiations with publishers…” [SCONUL response to the HE White Paper, 19 Sep 2011]

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A Problem Shared?Collaborative collection management