Like all prognostications, predictions about cataloging
in a fully automated library may bear little resemblance to the ultimate reality. While the future cataloging scenario discussed here may seem reasonable
now, it could prove embarrassing to read 10–20 years
hence. Still, I would be pleasantly surprised if, by the
year 2000, TS operations are not fully integrated, TS
staff has not been greatly reduced, there has not been
a large-scale jump in TS productivity accompanied by
a dramatic decline in TS costs, and if most of us are not
cooperating through a national database.
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