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WHETHER IN PRINT or digital environments, inclusion of metadata that describes each published work is essential to discovery and management of content. * Accurate bibliographic metadata--including title, author, and ISBN--ensures [...]

During the past several years the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) noted increasing concern from the library community regarding the future of cataloging. In response to this concern and to the rapidly changing metadata environment, OCLC is taking steps to further a paradigm shift toward early acquisition of metadata in WorldCat directly from the entities responsible for content purchased by libraries--chiefly the publisher supply chain. This shift in thinking requires the acknowledgement that metadata is dynamic and will change over time and relies upon the automated capture of metadata early in the publishing cycle as well as automated processes to help make the early metadata 'good enough.' KEYWORDS metadata, cataloging, publishers, publishing, WorldCat, FRBR, MARC, ONIX, bibliographic control, Library of congress DOI: 10.1080/01930820903238842