Entering an Alternate Universe: Some Consequences of Implementing Recommendations of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
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This paper is derived from the keynote speech delivered to the New England Technical Services Librarians Annual Conference held in Worchester, Massachusetts, on April 4, 2008. It retains much of its original oral presentation style.
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On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
(Jan. 9, 2008), 4, www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-jan08-final.pdfnStanley J. Wilder, '“The ARL Youth Movement: Reshaping the ARL Workforce,”' ARL no. 254 (Oct. 2007): 1-4 (accessed May 23, 2008)www.arl.org/bm∼doc/arl-br-254-youth.pdfnIbid., 4nStanley J. Wilder, “Demographic Trends Affecting Professional Technical Services Staffing in ARL Libraries,”
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, ed. Janet Swan Hill, 52–55 (New York: Haworth, 2002)nFor a brief gloss on the Great Society, see “The Great Society,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_SocietynProject MARC: An Experiment in Automating Library of Congress Catalog Data
(Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1967);
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
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The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules: Papers from the ALCTS Preconference, AACR 2000
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LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress
(Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000): Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenges of Networked Resources and the Web (Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Directorate, Library of Congress, 2001), www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/conference.htmlnOn the RecordnIbid., 22nIbid., 23nThe Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (http://dublincore.orgnOn the Record
, 14n
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