... provides thoughtful commentary on troubling issues surrounding cataloging and the future of the online catalog. Norm Medeiros can be contacted at: nmedeiro@haverford.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Online catalogues Resources Cataloguing For the traditional cataloging...

... Index (HHI) provides a sobering assessment of cultural heritage resources in the United States. A large percentage of the 4.8 billion artifacts in more than 30,000 archives, libraries, museums, historical societies, scientific research institutions and archaeological repositories are in sub‐optimal...

...Norm Medeiros Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the challenge and promise of electronic resource usage statistics. Design/methodology/approach Discusses the ways in which libraries could take better advantage of usage statistics with the help of systems. Findings Provides...

...Norm Medeiros This article describes the work of the Networked Resources and Metadata Committee (NRMC), a committee within ALA’s Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). The article discusses NRMC’s history, initiatives, and program highlights, gleaned from an interview...

... from the library community in terms of non‐traditional metadata. Archives Collection management Internet Library services Resources Canada The University of Alberta Libraries (UAL) Web portal is a dynamic Web site supported by a number of underlying databases. Currently, two...

... and arrangement of information in the document structure hierarchy). Item‐level metadata records contain bibliographic information that has been extracted from source documents and normalized. These normalized metadata records are then used to facilitate and enhance resource discovery across the entire testbed...

... the concept of RDF assertions; that is, how RDF expressions are based upon a subject (a resource such as a Web site), a predicate (a property of the subject such as the person who created it), and an object (a literal such as a person). It will be interesting to see if efforts in the RDF/XML arena take off...

...Ingrid Hsieh‐Yee Recognizing changes in the information environment and related changes in cataloging standards, Catholic University of America’s LIS program adopted a strategy to offer students three levels of knowledge in organizing Internet resources. In the basic cataloging course...