Bibliographic Control
The Bibliographic Control Working Group was formed to address the issues
of German-language cataloging on national and international levels.
Bibliographic control provides the organizational infrastructure for
the information collected by a library. Working behind the scenes and
almost invisible to the user, bibliographic control represents an essential
part of library services. It provides a level of assurance that a user
can identify and find a needed item in a library, and it also acts as
a primary tool for exploration and discovery of a library's holdings.
Collection Development
The Collection Development Working Group explores ways of increasing
bibliographic and full-text (both remote and physical) access for North
American research libraries, including but not restricted to selection
of monographic and serial publications, in all publication formats,
from the German-speaking countries of Europe.
Digital Libraries
The Digital Libraries Working Group encourages and fosters the digitization
of important research-oriented materials to be made broadly available
to the world via the Internet. Among this group's tasks are to assist
in the funding and completion of such digital collections, while agreeing
on standards for interoperability, metadata, and identifying useful
items/collections.
Document Delivery
The goal of the Document Delivery Working Group is to improve document
delivery and interlibrary loan for German-language materials, both among
ARL libraries and between German and North American research libraries.
The group will seek to make use of current and emerging technologies
in developing inter-library programs for document delivery between German
and American academic libraries.
Link to GNARP workspace http://workspace.crl.edu
This is the password-protected wiki workspace for GNARP members.
