Cataloguing and the Internet: considerations at the British Library

Abstract

A vast, uncontrolled mass of data is now available on the Internet. These data pose specific problems for librarians, and in particular for cataloguers. In addition to problems of size, presence, quality and stability of the information now available electronically, the British Library has concerns peculiar to a national archive. The Electronic Media Group (EMG) within the Cataloguing department at the British Library has been addressing some of these issues while investigating the cataloguing of works in new forms. Outlines some of the problems addressed and gives brief overviews of similar work and experiments discovered by the EMG as being conducted by other cataloguers and information scientists in this field.

Citation

Strutt, S.E. (1997), "Cataloguing and the Internet: considerations at the British Library", Library Review, Vol. 46 No. 7, pp. 490-499. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539710177624