Will there be a library catalogue in the future and, if so, what will it look like? In the last 25 years, the library catalogue has undergone an evolution, from card catalogues to OPACs, discovery systems and even linked data applications making library bibliographic data accessible on the web. At the same time, users expectations of what catalogues will be able to offer in the way of discovery have never been higher. This groundbreaking edited collection brings together some of the foremost international cataloguing practitioners and thought leaders, including Lorcan Dempsey, Emmanuelle Bermès, Marshall Breeding and Karen Calhoun, to provide an overview of the current state of the art of the library catalogue and look ahead to see what the library catalogue might become. Practical projects and cutting edge concepts are showcased in discussions of linked data and the Semantic Web, user expectations and needs, bibliographic control, the FRBRization of the catalogue, innovations in search and retrieval, next-generation discovery products and mobile catalogues. Table of contents: Foreword - Marshall Breeding Introduction - Sally Chambers 1. Next generation catalogues: what do users think? - Anne Christensen 2. Making search work for the library user - Till Kinstler 3. Next-generation discovery: an overview of the European Scene - Marshall Breeding 4. The mobile library catalogue - Lukas Koster and Driek Heesakkers 5. FRBRizing your catalogue - Rosemie Callewaert 6. Enabling your catalogue for the semantic web - Emmanuelle Bermes 7. Supporting digital scholarship: bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositories - Karen Calhoun 8. Thirteen ways of look at the libraries, discovery and the catalogue: scale, workflow, attention - Lorcan Dempsey. Readership: Cataloguers and metadata specialists, library adminstrtorts and managers responsible for planning and strategy, systems librarians, user services managers, electronic resources librarians, and digital library project managers, students on cataloguing, information management and digital library courses.

1. Catalogue
2.0
The future of the library catalogue

2. What is it?
A new edited collection that brings
together leading international
cataloguing practitioners & thought
leaders to provide an overview of
the current state of the art of the
library catalogue & to look ahead
at what it might become.

4. Who is it for?
Cataloguers, metadata specialists,
library administrators and
managers, systems librarians, user
services managers, electronic
resources librarians, digital library
project managers, and LIS
students.

5. What is in it?
Discussions of linked data and the
semantic web, user expectations
and needs, bibliographic control,
the FRBRization of the catalogue,
innovations in search and
retrieval, next-gen discovery
products and mobile catalogues.

6. Who is in it?
Sally Chambers - DARIAH-EU
Emmanuel Bermes - Centre Pompidou
Marshall Breeding
Karen Calhoun - University of Pittsburgh
Rosemie Callewaert
Anne Christensen - Leuphana University
Lorcan Dempsey - OCLC
Silvia Gestrein - University of Innsbruck
Driek Heesakkers - University of Amsterdam
Till Kinstler - GBV Verbindzentrale
Lukas Koster - University of Amsterdam

7. What is in it?
Discussions of linked data and the
semantic web, user expectations
and needs, bibliographic control,
the FRBRization of the catalogue,
innovations in search and
retrieval, next-gen discovery
products and mobile catalogues.

8. What to
expect
chapter-by-chapter

9. 1. Next-generation catalogues:
what do users think?
Anne Christensen
This chapter looks at the history of user
studies on online catalogues, investigates
methods to involve users actively in the
design and development processes for new
catalogues and describes and examines the
outcomes of studies of users’ perceptions.

10. 2. Making search work for the
library user
Till Kinstler
This chapter describes how Boolean search
(the key information retrieval paradigm in
library catalogues), differs from the Vector
Space Model (used in many search engines).
The chapter then explores how such search
engine technologies can be applied to library
catalogues and explores how other features
of search engines (e.g search suggestions) can
be implemented within a library context.

11. 3. Next-generation discovery:
an overview of the European
scene Marshall Breeding
Dissatisfaction with the online catalogues
delivered as part of the LMS sparked a new
genre of products & services that focus on
providing an improved experience in the
way libraries provide access to their
collections & services. This chapter provides
an overview of the features & characteristics
of this new genre of library software e.g.
products from Serials Solutions, EBSCO, Ex
Libris & OCLC.

12. 4. The mobile library catalogue
Lukas Koster & Driek Heesakkers
This chapter explores the range of mobile
applications available and provides an
overview of mobile platforms. It then
explores the user needs of the target audience
from a range of libraries and looks at the
different types of mobile library services. A
case study of the implementation of a mobile
catalogue at the University of Amsterdam
follows before the chapter concludes with a
ten-point checklist outlining the steps to set
up a mobile catalogue.

13. 5. FRBRizing your catalogue:
the facets of FRBR
Rosemie Callewaert
Using the Flemish public library web portal,
zoeken.bibliotheek.be, as a case study, this
chapter explores how the theory behind
FRBR has been applied in practice. Attention
is paid to the user experience & how the
theoretical concepts of FRBR can be
presented in a practical way for the enduser.
The technology is also described & the
shortcomings of FRBR in this particular case
are also explored.

14. 6. Enabling your catalogue
for the Semantic Web
Emmanuelle Bermès
This chapter provides a short introduction to
the Semantic Web and its practical
implementation, Linked Data. It explores the
reasons why a library would want to enable
its catalogue for the Semantic Web and the
different steps that would need to be taken.
An introduction to the technology is provided
along with some examples of ongoing and
existing Semantic Web projects in the library
domain.

15. 7. Supporting digital scholarship:
bibliographic control, library co-
operatives and open access
repositories Karen Calhoun
This chapter examines bibliographic control,
cooperative cataloguing systems and library
catalogues in the context of changing library
collections, new metadata sources and methods,
open access repositories, digital scholarship and the
purposes of research libraries. The chapter concludes
with a call for research libraries to consider
collectively new approaches that could strengthen
their roles as essential contributors to emergent,
network-level scholarly research infrastructures.

16. 8. 13 ways of looking at libraries,
discovery & the catalogue: scale,
workflow, attention Lorcan Dempsey
This chapter outlines how the catalogue is changing &
becoming a part of a larger discovery environment.
National libraries are reviewing how catalogue data is
created & how it might participate in a broader web of
data. There is growing interest in using catalogue and
usage data to help drive decisions about collections
and also in placing catalogue data & services in other
environments, where it can act as a switch back to
library resources. This renewed interest in the
catalogue is emerging at the same time as the
catalogue itself is becoming less central as an
individual destination.

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