Technical services : a vision for the future

The Internet has opened the door for technical services librarians and their information organization skills. Results of the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) Metadata Task Force from 1995-2000 will provide some insights on how the cataloging community envisions the future of search engines and intelligent information exchange, as well as this community's approach to the continued growth and development of metadata standards both within and outside librarianship. Some comments on metadata and the Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) will also be provided, along with a vision of where cataloging and technical services professionals and staff need to be in order to position themselves for survival in the library of the future. Ideas expressed at the ALCTS Preconference or Metadata at ALA Annual 2000 will also be given.