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 [...]

Enabling the reuse of MARC catalog data alongside metadata in various web environments

The white paper “Supporting the eXtensible Catalog through Metadata Design and Services” by Jennifer Bowen (Co-Principal Investigator, XC Project) is now available.
Taken from several listservs, the announcement for the white paper reads:
The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project at the University of Rochester announces the release of a major white paper describing the project’s approach to metadata. [...]

Karen Calhoun’s: The New World of Metadata

Last week, Karen Calhoun predicted that the future of cataloguers will be so bright, we’ll need shades.  As promised, Karen has now posted her powerpoint presentation from the Industry Symposia session: The New World of Metadata.
I attended this session and strongly recommend checking out the slides.  Karen provides her outlook on the future of cataloguing with thoughtful [...]

“Future so bright, we’ll have to wear shades”

This was Karen Calhoun’s prediction for the future of cataloguing today at IFLA 2008.
Calhoun and Jay Jordan (OCLC’s president and CEO) spoke on The New World of Metadata – from OCLC’s point of view and thoughts on the future.
Calhoun’s powerpoint presentation this afternoon will be made available on the web in the near future.  In [...]

OCLC to conduct new cataloging and metadata pilot

This might be old news to some of you, but I thought I’d post this link for those of you (like me) who haven’t seen OCLC’s announcement.