Librarianship’s Future Strengths: Are OPACs Broken?

I recently stumbled across an older ACRLog posting “Academic Librarianships’ Future Strengths?”
While the entire article gave me something to reflect upon and think about regarding our future strengths, I think the most interesting part of the post, from my perspective (and likely most of you if you’re reading this “Cataloguing” blog!) is the following:
While it’s [...]

An article of interest

If you follow the blog In the Library with the Leadpipe, then you’ve seen the recent article We’re Gonna Geek This Mother Out. It’s an interesting piece and worth reading even if you don’t agree with what Mr. Singer writes.
Mr. Singer performs two searches at the end of his article as supporting evidence for [...]

OCLC Report: Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want

OCLC’s has released their report Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want for downloading or purchase. 
According to OCLC:
The Online Catalogs report presents findings from these research efforts in order to understand:

The metadata elements that are most important to end users in determining if an item will meet his or her needs
The enhancements end users would like [...]

Subject navigation for today’s and tomorrow’s library catalogs

This entry is further to Cataloging Futures’ post  LC working group report: an insider’s view.
I found John Mark Ockerbloom’s ALA midwinter presentation “Mapping the library future: subject navigation for today’s and tomorrow’s library catalogs” on the blog Resource Shelf.  Although posted on several sites, I haven’t found any discussion on this presentation yet.