Monday, October 22, 2007

To more powerful ways to cooperate

Chip NilgesOCLC Vice PresidentNew Services

"This of course is just a beginning; over the next year we are planning to offer a variety of “social” services to allow non-cataloging library professionals, library patrons and others to contribute to and use WorldCat. Services under consideration include tagging, list creation and sharing, citation management, personal cataloging, and the like."

This should be interesting. It reminds me of the 0ld "Thriving on Chaos" theory. The real challenge will be in deciding what to include and what to exclude. Trial and error may be too slow a vehicle to allow any kind of innovation.

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