TY - JOUR AB - The eLib ‘clump’ projects are utilising the Z39.50 bibliographic retrieval protocol to build gateways to library OPACs in the UK, creating virtual union catalogues of university, national and public libraries. In order to facilitate large scale resource discovery, some of the projects are creating databases containing metadata for their libraries' collections. The creation and development of a standard scheme for cataloguing collections, as opposed to cataloguing individual items, is described here. VL - 29 IS - 3 SN - 0305-5728 DO - 10.1108/eb040724 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040724 AU - Brack Verity PY - 1999 Y1 - 1999/01/01 TI - The eLib Collection Description Scheme T2 - VINE PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 38 EP - 48 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -