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Library Resources & ISSN 0024-2527 Technical Services October 2008 Volume 52, No. 4 OPAC Queries at a Medium-Sized Academic Library Heather L. Moulaison Literature of Acquisitions in Review, 1996–2003 Barbara S. Dunham and Trisha L. Davis How Much are Technical Services Worth? Philip Hider The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services 52 ❘ 4 The Essential Cataloging and Classification Tools on the Web FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Now includes Spanish and French language interfaces! Cataloger’s Classification Desktop Web Now with The most widely used cataloging Full-text display of much quicker documentation resources in an integrated, all LC classification online system—accessible anywhere. schedules & subject Class Schedule navigation! � Look up a rule in AACR2 and then headings. Updated quickly and easily consult the rule’s daily. 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Toll-free phone in U.S. 1-800-255-3666 • Outside U.S. call +1-202-707-6100 Fax +1-202-707-1334 • www.loc.gov/cds • [email protected] LRTS Dr2BW.indd 1 2/4/08 8:57:42 AM Library Resources & Technical Services (ISSN 0024-2527) is published quarterly by the American Library Association, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. It is the official publication of the Association Library Resources for Library Collections & Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association. Subscription price: to members of the Association & for Library Collections & Technical Services, Technical Services $27.50 per year, included in the membership dues; to nonmembers, $75 per year in U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and $95 per year in other foreign coun- ISSN 0024-2527 October 2008 Volume 52, No. 4 tries. Single copies, $25. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Library Guest Editorial 218 Resources & Technical Services, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. Business Manager: Charles Entering an Alternate Universe: Some Consequences of Implementing Wilt, Executive Director, Association for Library Recommendations of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Collections & Technical Services, a division of the Future of Bibliographic Control American Library Association. Send manuscripts Janet Swan Hill to the Editorial Office: Peggy Johnson, Editor, Library Resources & Technical Services, University of Minnesota Libraries, 499 Wilson Library, 309 Association for Library Collections and Technical Services 19th Ave. So., Minneapolis, MN 55455; (612) 624- Annual Report 2007–08 227 2312; fax: (612) 626-9353; e-mail: m-john@umn Pamela Bluh, 2007–08 ALCTS President .edu. Advertising: ALCTS, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; 312-280-5038; fax: 312-280-5032. ALA Production Services: Troy D. Linker, Karen Sheets, Chris Keech, Tim Clifford, and Justine Wells. 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The paper used in this publication meets the mini- mum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. ∞ Publication in Library Resources & Technical Services does not imply official endorsement by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services nor by ALA, and the assumption of edito- Association for Library Collections & Technical Services rial responsibility is not to be construed as endorse- Visit LRTS online at www.ala.org/alcts/lrts. ment of the opinions expressed by the editor or For current news and reports on ALCTS activities, see the ALCTS Newsletter Online at individual contributors. www.ala.org/alcts/alcts_news. 218 Hill LRTS 52(4) Guest Editorial EDITORIAL BOARD Entering an Alternate Editor and Chair Universe: Some Peggy Johnson University of Minnesota Consequences Members of Implementing Kristen Antelman, North Carolina State University Recommendations of the Library Stephen Bosch, University of Arizona of Congress Working Group Yvonne Carignan, Historical Society of Washington, D.C. on the Future of Bibliographic Allyson Carlyle, University of Control Washington Mary Casserly, University at Albany Elisa Coghlan, University of By Janet Swan Hill Washington Janet Swan Hill ([email protected]) is Associate Director for Technical Services, University of Lewis Brian Day, Harvard Colorado Libraries, Boulder. University This paper is derived from the keynote speech delivered to the New England Magda A. El-Sherbini, Ohio State Technical Services Librarians Annual Conference held in Worchester, University Massachusetts, on April 4, 2008. It retains much of its original oral presentation Dawn Hale, Johns Hopkins style. University October Ivins, Ivins eContent n its final report, On the Record, the Library of Congress (LC) Working Group Solutions Ion the Future of Bibliographic Control suggested that our future depends in Edgar Jones, National University part on defining the bibliographic universe as reaching “beyond libraries, publish- Shirley J. Lincicum, Western ers and database producers to include creators, vendors, distributors, stores, and Oregon University user communities, among others, across sectors and international boundaries.”1 Carolynne Myall, Eastern Implementation of all of the Working Group’s recommendations, however, Washington University requires more than mere redefinitions. In some senses, it requires us to take up Randy Roeder, University of Iowa residence in an alternate universe, with new understandings, new perspectives, Carlen Ruschoff, University of and new responsibilities. In this editorial I will describe what I regard as some Maryland of the important aspects of that alternate universe. In order to convey the extent of change that they represent, I will begin by describing salient features of the Sarah Simpson, Tulsa City–County Library System universe in which we have long been living. Ex-Officio Members The Old Universe Charles Wilt, Executive Director, ALCTS When I entered the profession in 1970, it was taken for granted that libraries Mary Beth Weber, Rutgers were a public good, that services that libraries offered were a public good, and University, Editor, ALCTS that obtaining those services was a right of all the people. The fruits of using Newsletter Online libraries—education, knowledge, information, and improving oneself—were Edward Swanson, MINITEX recognized as unassailably