Archives, Libraries and Museums Convergence: The 24th Library Systems Seminar, Paris, 12‐14 April 2000 – Archives, Bibliothèques et Musées

Citation

Keary, M.Y. (2003), "Archives, Libraries and Museums Convergence: The 24th Library Systems Seminar, Paris, 12‐14 April 2000 – Archives, Bibliothèques et Musées", The Electronic Library, Vol. 21 No. 3, pp. 271-271. https://doi.org/10.1108/02640470310480560

The European Library Automation Group (ELAG) meets annually to bring together people involved in library automation in the leading European libraries and information centres. The main aim is to discuss in depth particular library automation topics, and to exchange ideas and experience informally. The text of this seminar is in English and French, and covers conference papers, reports from workshops, and progress reports from country groups.

Conference papers dealt with cataloguing projects undergoing development, such as: Denmark’s VisualCat system; the Co‐operative Online Resource Catalog (CORC), an OCLC research project; the Z39.50 protocol, the Unicode standard for global access; the SBN virtual catalogue used by the Italian National Library Service; a description of the Louvre Web sites; and access to information on museums via the Internet.

In the workshops personnel reported back on: the requirements for digital libraries; the development of a conceptual model for (A)LM; a progress report of the ICOM/CIDOC conceptual reference model (CRM) for reconciling cultural heritage information, and integrating museum information systems; the proposed draft for Dublin Core metadata qualifiers; guidance on how to organise library consortia; deliver heritage holdings across local, national and international networks; and update users on the intelligent searching of Web sites, and research capabilities of Web search engines.

The final section deals with progress reports from countries represented at the seminar, providing updates on their automated national library projects, and plans for the future. This collection of papers provides a useful updating reference resource for all those interested in library automation.