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# Discovery and disclosure again
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/discovery-and-disclosure-again/
- Published: 2006-08-27T10:19:42.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:52:51.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Institutions, Systems

I have a short article about the catalog(ue) in the current issue of Ariadne:

> I think that this shift poses major questions for the future of the catalogue, and this shift is bound up with the difference between *discovery* (identifying resources of interest) and *location* (identifying where those resources of interest are actually available). There may be many discovery environments, which then need to locate resources in particular collections. While the catalogue may be a part of the latter process, its role in the former needs to be worked through. \[[Main Articles: ‘The Library Catalogue in the New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts’, Ariadne Issue 48](https://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/dempsey/?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]

Because I was coming at it in a different direction, I did not discuss *[disclosure](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001084.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)* much, although it is behind much of what I am saying.  
The library needs to [disclose](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001084.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) the availability of resources in those places where they will be found by users, and the article [discusses](https://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue48/dempsey/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) some of those ways.  
One interesting issue I had in writing it was that I found myself tripping over the word *catalog(ue)*. The *catalog(ue)* we know is a particular bundle of functionality. If we take apart that functionality and redeploy it in different ways, it becomes difficult to know how and whether to use *catalogue* as a word. For example, if I have an API which other discovery environments can talk to to discover if an item is available in my collection, is that a catalogue?  
Related entry:
[Discovery and disclosure](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001084.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)