The case for international co‐operation in cataloguing: from copy cataloguing to multilingual subject access – experiences within the British Library

Abstract

An outline of a cataloguing strategy that might be adopted for the millennium is given with reference to how such a strategy is being implemented at the British Library. The first stage has involved co‐operation with American libraries and future plans are linked to co‐operation with European libraries. Such developments involve countries with different languages and different cataloguing cultures and so present many challenges. Finally skills required by staff needed to implement the cataloguing strategy are discussed.

Citation

Oddy, P. (1999), "The case for international co‐operation in cataloguing: from copy cataloguing to multilingual subject access – experiences within the British Library", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 33 No. 1, pp. 29-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000006911