Cataloging Digitized Continuing Resources in a Shared Record Environment

ABSTRACT

Cataloging digitized continuing resources is a challenging task for many libraries because of their complex cataloging rules and characteristics of format. As libraries provide their digitized content and catalog records in shared environments, like HathiTrust, and use them as an access point, libraries also have to work with holdings and item records created by each contributing institution's local practice. This article discusses common challenges imposed on libraries when creating and providing access to digitized continuing resources available in a shared environment, stresses the importance of having shareable holdings and items records, and suggests possible ways to work with those challenges.     

PART V: ALTERNATIVES TO CURRENT ACCESS MODELS IN RESEARCH LIBRARIES

Abstract

With the transformation of the card catalog into the online public access catalog came the expectation of its increased functionality. For the most part, today's online catalogs perform an expanded list of tasks quite effectively. Bibliographic utilities, system vendors, and individual libraries continue to improve bibliographic retrieval by providing new and better services through the catalog. In spite of these improvements, many observers believe that online catalogs have reached their maturity. Today's information environment includes a wealth of material to which online catalogs cannot provide universal and up-to-date access. Increasingly, librarians are turning to federated searching portal applications to find a means of managing the flood of digital information that threatens to engulf users. This chapter describes essential functionality of such tools, suggesting directions and strategies for improving them. The author concludes that, while the online catalog will continue to function as the principal tool for access control of the library's physical collections, the federated searching portal will ultimately serve as the library's principal Web gateway to digital resources.     

FRBR对相关编目规则的影响

FRBR在理论上突破了原有的文献编目规则理念和编目模型，FRBR的研究发展对当前编目标准带来相当大的影响，文章试就FRBR对ISBD、AACR、MARC21等相关规则的影响作一了解，以期对我们在相关信息组织理论研究方面有所启示。     

书目记录功能需求与连续性资源编目

由于连续性资源编目的复杂性和特殊性,IFLA书目记录功能需求(FRBR)在连续性资源编目中的实现是一个重要的、值得探讨的难题。作者从FRBR模式的概念、实体属性、实体关系和用户任务几个方面分析了对连续性资源编目的可行性,指出在编目实践中可能出现的影响和面临的挑战。     

Analysis of FRBR User Tasks

FRBR, FRAD, and FRSAD models propose user tasks as a way to address and categorize functions that a catalog should support. The user tasks are not harmonized among these models, but to do that, they should first be fully understood and analyzed, especially “select” and “identify.” We decided to look at the FRBR user tasks from the perspective of interactive information retrieval (IIR). Several IIR models were reviewed and Ellis’ and Belkin's models were chosen for further analysis and interpretation of FRBR “select” and “identify” tasks.     

我国FRBR研究述评

通过对我国近年来有关FRBR研究的文献进行调查分析,概述了当前研究的三大主要内容:FRBR的基本理念、带来的影响和实践研究,并进行评述,指出今后可朝相关实践研究和网络信息资源组织的影响等方向发展.     

An Historical Look at the Studies on the Subject Authority File in Turkey

Abstract

Libraries are bridges between information and the library user in the context of information retrieval. Library users want to access information resources according to their topic. Therefore, it is important to create subject entries in bibliographic records. If subject added entries and their redirects are done correctly, it will make it easier for users to access the information they are looking for. In this article the collaborative studies and projects made in Turkey are being discussed.     

从FRBR到FRAR——兼述中文文献资源的规范控制工作

分析规范控制对FRBR目录实现的重要影响和FRBR、FRAR思想对规范工作提出的新要求,重点从规范控制的角度探讨了国内实现FRBR化目录的难点和障碍。并对中文文献资源的规范控制工作的发展提出了一些看法和建议。     

Educational supplementary bibliographic relationships from FRBR point of view: A Canadian Case Study

PurposeOne of the aims of library catalogs is to clearly represent the relationships existing between two or more bibliographic entities, enabling users to make sense of these relationships. Educational bibliographic relationships are the relationships between an educational work, such as a textbook, and its related works. The main interest of this study was to understand the nature of the supplementary work-to-work bibliographic relationships among educational works and the constitution of educational bibliographic families in the Canadian context using AMICUS (the Canadian national catalog). A thorough understanding of educational bibliographic relationships is required for understanding the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) supplementary relationships.Design/methodology/approachWe studied the extent and size of educational bibliographic relationships in the bibliographic universe found in the AMICUS catalog. This is an empirical investigation into the nature and extent of educational work-to-work bibliographic relationships by examining title of works, notes and added entries in bibliographic records. The study was carried out between September 1st 2010 and December 22nd 2010 and examines educational bibliographic relationships between Canadian 2009 publications in each class of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). In other words, this study poses two main questions: What is the structure of educational supplementary bibliographic relationships in Canadian publications? Do significant differences exist across the ten DDC classes?FindingsResults show that 595 works of the 2009 bibliographic records in the AMICUS catalog contain an educational supplementary bibliographic relationship. Of the Canadian publications with an educational supplementary work-to-work bibliographic relationship that were studied, the rates of educational bibliographic relationships were relatively high in the fields of Science (27%), Technology (22%), Social Sciences (20%), and Language (19%). The results of this study suggest a set of guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of educational bibliographic relationships.Originality/valueThis is the first research to examine the educational bibliographic relationships, as supplementary relationships.     

Measuring Law Library Catalog Web Site Usability: A Web Analytic Approach

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Although there is a proliferation of information available on the Web, and law professors, students, and other users have a variety of channels to locate information and complete their research activities, the law library catalog still remains an important source for offering users access to information that has been evaluated and cataloged by experts. The usability of the catalog needs to be effectively measured before any necessary improvements can be made. This study was undertaken to investigate the information retrieval patterns of users of the Rutgers Law Library Online Public Access Catalog and to develop the catalog into a more effective search tool for these users. This study used an experimental approach to measure the usability of our catalog by analyzing the transaction logs from the OPAC system and the results from Google Analytics. The findings provided not only important information on user demographics and their computer systems, but also more insight on the search behaviors of users. The specific findings included the following:

1. As a Web-analytic tool Google Analytics provided extensive information on the OPAC and the navigational behaviors of users.

2. Fifty-eight percent of our users visited the Web site regularly.

3. The most popular search method, which was employed by 37% of our users, was by title.

4. Most patrons used computer systems with a high resolution and color depth monitor and visited the catalog Web site with a high-speed Internet connection.

5. Suggestions were made by the authors to improve the users’ search experience of the catalog Web site.

This study is significant to libraries with Web catalogs because it demonstrates the potential value of using Google Analytics as a Web analytics tool in combination with the OPAC transaction logs to measure catalog usability.     

FRBR应用于书目记录质量评估的研究

书目记录的质量至关重要。介绍了基于FRBR模式评估书目记录质量的工具。     

WorldCat在图书采访工作中的应用

从丰富的资源整合、灵活的检索方法、评估与评价以及详细的书目信息功能等方面,介绍了OCLC提供的woddcat书目体系,以期为图书馆的采访人员,特别是西文采访人员,提供新的采访信息获取方法。     

Link It or Lump It

Abstract

Mounting digital images of art objects on a Web site is only the first step in providing patron access to such materials. Libraries and museums have a responsibility to provide not only high-quality digital reproductions but also high-quality access from an integrated library catalog with controlled vocabulary and consistent access points. While some digital collections may have excellent internal searchability and require no more than collection level cataloging in a library's OPAC, others may demand cataloging of individual components of the collection. A particular collection's significance, its potential audience, the types of access required, as well as factors such as its size and cohesiveness need to be considered before becoming locked into a specific Web designespecially when it is that of another institution.

This paper examines several online library catalogs in which records for art objects as well as historical objects and natural history specimens have been merged, with varying degrees of success, and briefly addresses a modest proposal to catalog ceramic objects at the Ohio State University Libraries. The importance of consistent subject access in a merged catalog, regardless of the thesaurus or thesauri used, is stressed. Library consortia and bibliographic utilities may offer an economically appealing alternative for libraries that cannot design and construct their own digital libraries but these external organizations often have limited capability for-or interest in-modifying the design for a particular library and even less interest in cataloging the collections. Libraries, too, must be faulted for simply listing available electronic resources, either alphabetically or in broad subject categories, on a separate portion of their Web page and failing to provide full catalog records in their catalog. Finally, it is emphasized that the current debate over the viability of MARC 21 versus other metadata standards remains largely irrelevant to the importance of continuing to cultivate a monolithic online catalog, maintaining cataloging standards, and not mindlessly developing what amounts to a separate, rudimentary catalog solely for electronic resources.     

网络环境下的信息存取与目录学创新

从目前书目数据的开放存取、开放存取资源目录、书目教据通用开放标准、网络书目情报服务、目录强化与信息存取,以及开放源代码、书目软件等技术和工作现状,可以看到目录学理论的新发展和书目工作的不断创新。对这些方面的分析研究有利于目录学的发展。参考文献31。     

CNMARC中200字段著录的规范化问题

书目数据著录是图书馆文献组织的基础性工作,其中200字段题名与责任者项著录质量对整个MARC书目数据质量和读者有效检索指数有很大的影响。文章通过200字段大量典型的著录实例,就书目数据著录中信息源的选取原则、著录用文字的标准化以及著录内容的准确性等问题进行了分析和说明,以期与同行沟通交流,共同提高书目数据质量,特别是200字段题名与责任者项的著录质量。     

Bibliographical Resources for Eastern and Central European Studies: Experiences and Future Prospects: An International Symposium at Herder-Institut,Marburg, Germany,March 14–15, 2003

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The article summarizes presentations at a symposium on bibliographical resources for Eastern and Central European studies, held at the Herder-Institut in Marburg, Germany. Online resources were presented from Germany (primarily), Austria, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.     

Incorporating indigenous knowledge materials. Efforts at Elhafeed Library,Ahfad University,Sudan

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This article describes work being done at Ahfad University for Women in Omdurman, Sudan, to document and catalog indigenous knowledge (IK) materials. The recognition and appreciation of IK taps into the intellectual resources associated with it. Librarians, as major workers in the knowledge society, have to recognize their roles in the incorporation of IK into the “scientific knowledge system” with which they are familiar.     

Truth vs. Authenticity: Dealing with More “Good” Books Going “Bad” and Seeking Opportunities for Catalog Record Enhancement

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Discusses the challenges and opportunities inherent in enhancing the catalog record for books that have developed documented reputations at odds with earlier certifications of authenticity, credibility, and quality. Librarians, as historically arbiters only of order and access, are reluctant to engage books beyond their organization and their facts. The author features a number of books and authors whose reputations have been recently and rightly sullied and argues that libraries should approach these works with the goal and giving them new contexts for the patron.