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# Talking about the catalog
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/talking-about-the-catalog/
- Published: 2006-06-20T12:45:58.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:54:36.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Institutions

Given the growing discussion about the catalog, I was interested to look back over various entries here in the last while. Here is an incomplete list:  
**Some general discussions:**

- [Lifting out the catalog discovery experience](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001021.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Thinking about the catalog](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000919.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [The Owl of Minerva](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001035.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

**The catalog and the integrated library system:**

- [The integrated library system that isn’t](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000585.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [A palindromic service layer](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000927.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [New model library system vendors](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000786.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

**A user view:**

- [The network and the sun](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000998.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Who is the catalog for?](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000668.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [How good is the catalog?](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000218.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

**The catalog and the long tail: a structural perspective:**

- [Systemwide activities and the long tail](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000955.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Systemwide discovery and delivery](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000903.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Libraries Australia](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000953.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Libraries, logistics and the long tail](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000949.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

**The catalog within a wider library information environment:**

- [The user interface that isn’t](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000667.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [The library website again](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000600.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Discover, locate .. vertical and horizontal integration](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000865.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

**Making data work harder:**

- [Making data work – catalogs and Web 2.0](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000815.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Some FRBR presentations](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000972.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [A decimal browse](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000823.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Making data work harder](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000535.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Circulating intentional data](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000875.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Making data work hard – intentionally](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000822.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)

**UI and features:**

- [The simple search box and the rich texture of suggestion](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000966.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [A catalog or two (cats and splats)](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000956.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [A service-able catalog](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000918.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Find nearby](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000819.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Search, share and subscribe](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000964.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)
- [Rank, recommend and relate](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000970.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)