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Presentation at the ALCTS Metadata Institute in San Diego, March 2002

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ABSTRACT:
This introductory overview will consider why metadata issues are central to discussions about the evolution of library services—particularly digital library services—and why the cataloging community is, and should be, front and center in those discussions.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Brian E. C. Schottlaender, "“Why Metadata? Why Me? Why Now?”" (March 8, 2002). The University Libraries. Paper 2002schottlaender01.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsd_libraries/2002schottlaender01