Presentation at 2008 ALA Conference for the program "The Future of Catalogs and Cataloging"

1. Roy Tennant

4. Then: Users built workflow around libraries Now: Library must build services around user workflow Discovery happens elsewhere Disclosure

6. The Way It Was Card distribution service Catalogers Bibliographic records Local card catalog Added value

7. The Way It Became Bibliographic utility Bibliographic records Catalogers Local catalog Added value

8. The Way It Can Be Union catalog, Locally tailored and skinned Bibliographic records Catalogers Added value Benefits accrue to all!

10. Benefit of Concentration: Ranking based on number of holding libraries

11. Benefit of Concentration: More data to mine

13. Benefit of Concentration: Ability to make user- contributed data better

14. From: Social Classification and Folksonomy in Art Museums: early data from the steve.museum tagger prototype a paper for the ASIST SIG-CR workshop on Social Classification , November 4, 2006, by Jennifer Trant

15. Benefit of Concentration: Ability to perform “switching service” for all participants

19. Benefit of Concentration: Exposed in spaces where potential users are found

23. Concentration A webscale presence Mobilize data Diffusion Disclosure of links, data and services