Vinh-The Lam
(Published in Cataloging &
classification quarterly, v. 29, no. 3, 2000, p. 49-61)
ABSTRACT
Internet resources have brought great
excitement but also grave concerns to the library world, especially to the
cataloging community. In spite of the various problematic aspects presented by
Internet resources (poorly organized, lack of stability, variable quality),
catalogers have decided that they are worth cataloging, in particular those
meeting library selection criteria. This paper tries to trace the decade-long
history of the library community's efforts in providing an effective way to
catalog Internet resources. Basically, its objective is to answer the following
questions: Why catalog? What to catalog; and, How to catalog. Some issues of
cataloging electronic journals and developments of the Dublin Core Metadata
system are also discussed.
