Prospects and Challenges of Cataloguing in the Digital Age
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2023
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Abstract
The digital age offers technological support to cataloguers to simplify the processes of cataloguing
of information resources. This paper investigates the prospects and challenges of cataloguing in
the digital age. It uses the topology design to structure its major headings into stages, based on
their importance and relevance to the phenomenon being discussed. Thus, after justifying the
rationale for understudying the prospects and challenges of cataloguing in the digital age, this
paper explores the nexus between digital age and cataloguing before explaining the major
prospects of cataloguing in the digital age and finally discussed the challenges of cataloguing in
the digital age. It concludes that digital age has unbundled the restrictions of availability of
bibliographic records of information resources beyond the four-walls of libraries, which has
driven cooperations and collaborations among libraries. Its main recommendation is that
adequate IT infrastructure required for digital cataloguing should be made available in libraries.