WorldCat Survey Findings - What do users want?
1. More subject information
2. Summaries and abstracts in records
3. Book Covers
4. Datamining - clusters of like materials in a search
5. Fiction Finder - grouping of all titles into works with fast headings
6. Software that tags parts of speach (mix between library supplied data and end user supplied)
Announcements:
- New DDC23 should be out by late 2010 or early 2011
- New ILL Web Delivery Tutorial on the OCLC website: www.oclc.org
- WorldCat Mobile pilot - a program that brings WorldCat.org to hand-held communications devices such as PDAs and smartphones.
Members of the editorial team presented outlines of proposed changes to DDC: "Language variations" by Julianne Beall, "Rethinking meals" by Giles Martin and "780 Music" by Michael Panzer.
For more information check out this blog - 025.431: The Dewey Blog for a far better description of the updates from real catalogers and not just a reference librarian.
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