OneSearch Discovery Service: Research and Background Info

"New digital technologies, the Internet, and user expectations have changed the role of the catalogue in libraries considerably in recent years. 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. Key leaders in the field including Karen Calhoun, Lorcan Dempsey, Emmanuelle Bermès, and Marshall Breeding discuss cutting-edge issues such as

Next generation catalogues
Making search work for the library user
Next-generation discovery: an overview of the European Scene
The mobile library catalogue
FRBRizing your catalogue
Enabling your catalogue for the Semantic Web
Supporting digital scholarship: bibliographic control, library co-operatives and open access repositories
13 ways of looking at libraries, discovery and the catalogue: scale, workflow, attention

Librarians and information professionals will find practical guidance on customizing their catalogues to keep them up to date with the latest trends in technology in this authoritative manual."