Tim Coates thinks the unthinkable about cataloguing in public libraries: Fifteen million pounds each year to re-catalogue books that have already been catalogued. If I understand him right, he wonders why all the public libraries in the UK are all…
End of cataloging?
In response to an idea that surfaced on the mailing list Autocat suggesting the reduced need to maintain individual cataloguers with the rise of Google, Google Scholar, Open Worldcat etc., I posted the following: Which makes a lot of sense…