Extending the online catalog

Future plans of the California Institute of Technology Libraries (Brudwig, 1984) include an online analytic catalog of books, serials, journals, and technical reports. In an attempt to avoid the observation of Mandel and Herschman (1983) that "new technologies are often adapted to traditional uses without exploiting added capabilities" (p. 148), a number of innovative cataloging approaches are being developed. Encouraged by the work of Petersen (1983), Cochrane (1978), Hoffman and Magner (1985), and Quint (1987), staff members are developing procedures to augment the basic MARC records available through OCLC.published or submitted for publicatio