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Agile Descriptions

Agile Descriptions

Last Thursday week, March 8, Library of Congress held a public meeting of the Future of Bibliographic Control Working Group hosted by Google at their Mountain View home. The theme of the meeting was ‘Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data’. This was the first in a series of three meetings which is part of a one-year review (Nov. ’06 through No.v ’07) where LC (and by extension other libraries) may want to invest their future budgetary allocations on providing descriptors of curated works of intellectual property both for collection maintenance and resource discovery. This quote from Karen Coyle’s meeting summary  … Read more