Membaca artikel dibawah ini saya menjadi sadar bahwa the world is getting changed second by second. Divergensi media ditambah aksesibilitas dan penetrasi internet yang masif hingga ke genggaman tangan adalah satu faktor yang memberi kontribusi terhadap perkembangan dunia perpustakaan akhir-akhir ini. Kartu Katalog, sebagai salah satu media temu balik dalam penelusuran informasi telah menemui ajalnya. Setidaknya, menurut OCLC.
In my opinion, di dalam negeri sendiri, sebentar lagi banyak Perpustakaan yang akan segera meninggalkan katalog kartu. Selain menambah beban storage (penyimpanan) efektivitasnya akan kembali dipertanyakan ditengah menjamurnya sistem otomasi perpustakaan dengan berbagai macam jenisnya.
Kematian katalog kartu ini setidaknya menghasilkan satu tantangan baru bagi para Pustakawan. Apakah mereka akan mampu mengintegrasikan katalog kartu ini ke dalam sistem otomasi? Tidak berhenti disitu saja, proses indexing katalog ini pun akan turut terintegrasi dalam sistem.
Dominasi katalog kartu selama kurang lebih seabad ini sebentar lagi hanya tinggal kepingan sejarah. Dalam dunia kepustakawanan, para pustakawan akan mengenangnya sebagai tool paling legendaris dalam perpustakaan mereka.
Medan Merdeka Barat, 28 November 2016.
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The Card Catalog Is Officially Dead
Long live the card catalog
By Erin Blakemore
It’s
been a long time since most libraries were filled with card catalogs —
drawers upon drawers of paper cards with information about books. But
now, the final toll of the old-fashioned reference system’s death knell
has rung for good: The library cooperative that printed and provided
catalog cards has officially called it quits on the old-fashioned
technology.
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The news comes via the The Online Computer
Library Center (OCLC). The cooperative, which created the world’s first
shared, online catalog system back in 1971, allowed libraries to order
custom-printed cards that could then be put in their own analog
cataloging systems. Now, says OCLC, it’s time to lay a “largely
symbolic” system that’s well past its prime to rest.
“Print
library catalogs served a useful purpose for more than 100 years,
making resources easy to find within the walls of the physical library,”
Skip Prichard, CEO of OCLC, said in a blog post. Now, with
comprehensive, cloud-based catalogs like OCLC’s WorldCat available to
libraries, there’s just no need for cards any longer.
Catalog
cards haven’t always been printed: In fact, good handwriting used to be
a key skill for librarians. In an 1898 card catalog handbook, Melvil
Dewey even gave instructions on what types of cursive should be used by
catalogers on handwritten cards. “Legibility is the main consideration,”
he wrote. “Skilful writers acquire reasonable speed without sacrificing
legibility. The time of the writer is, however, of small importance
compared with that of the reader.”
The official death
of the catalog card was observed at OCLC’s headquarters by about a dozen
workers, writes Dan Gearino for The Columbus Dispatch. The
organization, which has printed a whopping 1.9 billion cards, sent its
final shipment to a library in Concordia College in Bronxville, New
York. But don’t think the college is the last holdout in an analog
library world — in fact, writes Gearino, the school’s library only uses
its card catalog as a backup for its computerized one.