Catalogue 2.0 : the future of the library catalogue

This timely book takes into account developments that influence catalogue potential and patrons' needs, such as competition from popular websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia, to provide an overview of the current state of the art of the library catalogue while looking ahead to see what the library catalogue might become.

1. Next-generation catalogues: What do users think? / Anne Christensen -- 2. Making search work for the library user / Till Kinstler -- 3. Next-generation discovery: An overview of the European scene / Marshall Breeding -- 4. The mobile library catalogue / Lukas Koster and Driek Heesakkers -- 5. FRBRizing your catalogue: The facets of FRBR / Rosemie Callewaert -- 6. Enabling your catalogue for the Semantic Web / Emmanuelle Bermès -- 7. Supporting digital scholarship: Bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositories / Karen Calhoun -- 8. Thirteen ways of looking at libraries, discovery and the catalogue: scale, workflow, attention / Lorcan Dempsey.