A couple things of note are happening in the realm of bibliographic information:
- The Library of Congress will be holding their second regional meeting of the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control on Wednesday, May 9th. This one will be held in Chicago. Pay attention to the discussions at these meetings, and watch for the final report from the group later this year. This group is touching upon the right issues, and the consensus for positive change is gaining momentum. I posted about the group’s first meeting here.
- The folks working on RDA and Dublin Core will be working together to make RDA more, well, friendly towards people who want to use library bibliographic information for various things. This could be important, as we are falling further and further behind when it comes to being able to use the wealth of information contained in our electronic bibliographic records. If we fall much further behind, we could become irrelevant; we are already fairly analogous to the Deep Web because our information can barely be used outside of our OPACs. And most of our OPACs are not user-friendly.
My thoughts and ideas about these issues are becoming clearer. I will write more on these topics later (hopefully soon).
