 @conference {1828,
	title = {UBC reloaded: remembrance of things past, back to the future = A la recherche du temps perdu, retour vers le futur : CBU 2.0},
	booktitle = {IFLA WLIC 2014 "Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge", Session 86 - Cataloguing with Bibliography, Classification, Indexing and UNIMARC Strategic Programme},
	year = {2014},
	month = {2014/08/18},
	publisher = {IFLA},
	organization = {IFLA},
	address = {Lyon, Auditorium Lumi{\`e}re},
	abstract = {<p>Fruit d{\textquoteright}une conversation entre une pionni{\`e}re du Contr{\^o}le bibliographique universel (CBU) et un conservateur de la g{\'e}n{\'e}ration internet qui dirige l{\textquoteright}agence bibliographique nationale fran{\c c}aise, ce texte c{\'e}l{\`e}bre {\`a} sa mani{\`e}re le 40{\`e}me anniversaire de la fondation du CBU. Nous avons voulu relire ensemble les d{\'e}clarations aux origines du CBU et partager nos questionnements et nos intuitions sur son avenir. Le CBU reposait sur quelques id{\'e}es ambitieuses mais simples : le savoir qui fait la richesse et le patrimoine d{\textquoteright}une nation s{\textquoteright}exprime dans des publications, au d{\'e}part imprim{\'e}es sur support; chaque Etat doit se doter d{\textquoteright}une agence charg{\'e}e de collecter et de d{\'e}crire les collections d{\textquoteright}int{\'e}r{\^e}t national ; cette description doit se faire dans le respect de normes bibliographiques internationales, dont la principale fonction est de faciliter l{\textquoteright}{\'e}change de notices standardis{\'e}es ; ces {\'e}changes visent {\`a} r{\'e}partir les t{\^a}ches {\`a} travers le monde et {\`a} rendre possible l{\textquoteright}acc{\`e}s pour chacun, via les bibliographies et les catalogues, {\`a} un vaste ensemble de ressources encyclop{\'e}diques de port{\'e}e universelle. L{\textquoteright}id{\'e}al fondateur du CBU {\'e}tait {\`a} mi-chemin de celui de la Biblioth{\`e}que d{\textquoteright}Alexandrie et de celui de Google. Il embrassait {\`a} la fois le r{\^e}ve antique d{\textquoteright}une ma{\^\i}trise de tous les savoirs du monde et la construction d{\textquoteright}un acc{\`e}s global et distribu{\'e} {\`a} l{\textquoteright}information. Dans cette vision, ant{\'e}rieure {\`a} la propagation de l{\textquoteright}internet, l{\textquoteright}id{\'e}e qu{\textquoteright}un usager p{\^u}t acc{\'e}der par lui-m{\^e}me {\`a} la somme des connaissances {\'e}tait inconcevable : les biblioth{\'e}caires {\'e}taient encore per{\c c}us comme des acteurs incontournables de la diffusion des savoirs. Et le r{\'e}seau mondial des biblioth{\`e}ques imagin{\'e} par le CBU pr{\'e}figurait en quelque sorte un {\guillemotleft} internet des biblioth{\`e}ques {\guillemotright}. Que faut-il retenir de cet h{\'e}ritage? Le CBU est-il d{\'e}pass{\'e} ? Selon nous, l{\textquoteright}histoire du CBU contient dans le r{\'e}cit de ses propres mutations les cl{\'e}s d{\textquoteright}une possible refondation qui, sans qu{\textquoteright}on s{\textquoteright}en rende forc{\'e}ment compte, est d{\'e}j{\`a} en marche.</p><p>The outcome of a conversation between a pioneer of Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) and a digital native head librarian director of France{\textquoteright}s national bibliographic agency, this paper celebrates UBC{\textquoteright}s 40th anniversary in its own way. We wished to read UBC{\textquoteright}s founding statements once again, and share our questions and thoughts as to what its future might be. UBC used to rest upon a few simple yet ambitious ideas: knowledge, the basis of a nation{\textquoteright}s wealth and heritage, is expressed in publications, originally printed onto a carrier; every country ought to invest in a national bibliographic agency in charge of collecting and describing any resource of national interest; this description must follow international bibliographic standards, the primary function of which is to facilitate the exchange of standardised records; this exchange works as a worldwide division of labour and enables universal access to a broad set of encyclopaedic resources via bibliographies and catalogues. UBC{\textquoteright}s founding principle stood in-between those of the Alexandrina and Google. It adhered both to the Ancient dream of mastering all the knowledge in the world and to the modern-day building up of global, routed access to information. In this vision predating the dissemination of the Internet, the very idea that a patron should have access to the sum of current knowledge on their own was inconceivable: librarians were still considered key figures in the diffusion of knowledge. And the worldwide library network envisioned by UBC somehow heralded an {\textquotedblleft}Internet of libraries{\textquotedblright}. Is there anything left of this legacy? Has UBC been overtaken? In our opinion, the very story of UBC{\textquoteright}s history carries the seeds of an unbeknownst overhaul.</p>},
	url = {http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/956},
	author = {Gildas Illien and Fran{\c c}oise Bourdon}
}
