GPO Cataloging Records in the Online Catalog:

Reference staff at many libraries are facing a sudden and dramatic change in the size and composition of their library's online catalog as a result of loading large files of Government Printing Office (GPO) retrospective cataloging records. While these records provide a much-needed increase in access to federal documents, they have special characteristics which make them difficult to work with. This article is intended to provide reference librarians with the basic "GPO cataloging record literacy" they need to deal successfully with the load of these records into an online catalog, and also to explore some of the specific implications of such a load for reference service.     

CALIS Z39.50联机编目客户端功能特色和应用

CALIS的Z39.50联机编目客户端是一通用的编目客户端，具有功能强大，设置灵活，操作简单，方便易用的特点。它适用于图书馆编目人员进行MARC记录的所有编目工作。该客户端为参加CALIS项目的各图书馆普遍使用，来真正实现CALIS联机编目的目的。本文论述了其功能特点以及特色应用方法，供图书馆编目人员借鉴和参考。熟练掌握此编目客户端的功能和正确应用它们，将给编目工作人员带来极大方便，减轻工作量，提高工作效率。     

Searching and Browsing the Dewey Decimal Classification in an Online Catalog

In the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Online Project, subject searching and browsing of DDC Schedules and Relative Index were featured in an experimental online catalog. The effectiveness of this DDC in an online catalog was tested in online retrieval experiments at four participating libraries. These experiments provided data for analyses of subject searchers' use of a library classification in the information retrieval environment of an online catalog. Recommendations were provided for the enhancement of bibliographic records, online catalogs, and online cataloging systems with a library classification. In this paper, subject searchers' use of the subject outline search capability of the experimental online catalog is described. This capability was unique to the experimental online catalog and all other online catalogs, because it referred searchers to online displays of the classification schedules based on their entry of subject terms. Failure analyses of subject outline searches demonstrated its specific strengths and weaknesses. Users' postsearch interview comments highlighted their experiences and their satisfaction with this search. Based on the failure analyses and users' interview comments, recommendations are provided for the improvement of the subject outline search in online catalogs.     

22nd Annual NASIG Conference Registrants NASIG Conference 2007—Registrants by Last Name

The article provides an outline from an historical standpoint of how Italian cataloging rules have dealt with serials and gives a general picture of the current situation and trends. The most recent of the three national codes issued up to the present lime (1921,1956, and 1979) recommends the creation of a separate catalog for this type of publication in conformity with a national standard (UNI norm 6392) conceived outside the framework of the functions of the general library catalog. There exists, however, a substantially uniform cataloging tradition that allows access by title and deals with title changes in accordance with the principle of successive entry. The only existing national periodical file was created by the Istituto di studi sulla ricerca e documentazione scientifica (ISRDS) of the Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (CNR), set up in conformity with UNI norm 6392. The existence of this file, whose records are to be adapted and converted, forms the basis of a government project to create a periodical file within the catalog of the National Library Service (SBN).     

The Role of the Name Main-Entry Heading in the Online Environment

The name main-entry heading has been a source of controversy throughout the history of Anglo-American cataloging with debate being closely tied to author identification. It is not surprising that debate has gained momentum as the functionality of online library catalogs and the costs of cataloging are under increasing close scrutiny. Following an historical overview of the name or author main-entry heading, this article discusses the finding and identifying functions of online catalogs as they relate to authorship. The article concludes that the name main-entry heading is an essential component of online catalog citation displays through which catalog users decide the usefulness of retrieved cataloging records.     

Serials Control in an Online Integrated System

An experiment in latest entry cataloging of selected serial title changes is currently being conducted at Northwestern University Library. The integrated structure of Northwestern's automated system NOTIS and its applications to serials processing were primary factors leading to the investigation of latest entry cataloging as an alternative to the current standard of successive entry cataloging for serial title changes. A systematic investigation was conducted through most of 1985 and allowed project staff to identify and evaluate a number of concerns and problems. The study team is encouraged with the results, but will continue gathering cataloging statistics and will conduct user studies before adopting latest entry cataloging as a permanent option.     

Cataloging E-Books: Dealing with Vendors and Various Other Problems

E-books are an important part of library collections. Allowing patrons to easily find e-books in a library’s online catalog requires properly cataloging these materials. Miao Jin, Catalog Librarian at Hinds Community College, gave a presentation titled “Cataloging e-Books: Dealing with Vendors and Various Other Problems” at the Mississippi State University Libraries’ eResource & Emerging Technologies Summit held in the Mitchell Memorial Library on August 2, 2013. Jin provided information on cataloging her library’s e-books and adding them to the library’s online catalog. She presented strategies for loading e-book machine-readable cataloging (MARC) records, and shared her experience working with vendors.     

Constructing Record Quality Measures Based on Catalog Use

ABSTRACT

Approaches to the measurement of catalog record quality are discussed. The systematic application of specific evaluation criteria may be more reliable than expert opinion, if not necessarily more accurate, and the construction of an error weightings table based on empirical investigation into catalog use is described. Although this process proved to be complex, and involved significant methodological problems, it was shown to be readily achievable. As catalog use may in many cases be insufficiently uniform across libraries to allow for generic evaluation criteria, it is proposed that cataloging managers construct their own set by studying the impact that record quality has on the particular use of their own catalogs. Thus more empirical research into catalog use is advocated, in order to supplement expert opinion and to build toward a practice of evidence-based cataloging.     

CALIS联合目录-高校书目数据共建共享的成果

文章就CALIS联合目录数据库建设、用户建设、合作伙伴、业务建设等方面总结联合目录的成功之处,同时也提出了目前还存在的一些问题和解决对策。     

CALIS联合目录——高校书目数据共建共享的成果

文章就CALIS联合目录数据库建设、用户建设、合作伙伴、业务建设等方面总结联合目录的成功之处,同时也提出了目前还存在的一些问题和解决对策。     

从《国际编目原则声明》看目录的查找功能

介绍《国际编目原则声明》根据编目工作实践和理念发生的重大变化,以检索点的功能作为选择与确定书目系统查找途径的出发点。指出必备检索点以实体的主要属性或关系为基础,对实现目录的查找功能具有关键的作用;它与主要款目的观念有联系,可是已远远超出主要款目标目的范围,尽管中文编目规则遵循交替标目的原则,但是就实现目录的查找功能而言,仍有必要区分必备检索点及附加检索点。     

Thinking About Databases

Successive entry cataloging was developed to cope with the mounting recataloging work required by latest entry cataloging practice. Successive entry cataloging in the automated environment has now become a hindrance to the efficient processing and retrieval of serial publications. Online updating of fields in a bibliographic record to reflect title changes can be done simply and economically. A single master record (earliest or latest entry) with access points for title changes prevent holdings from being fragmented. Latest entry cataloging may be desirable since users tend to request recent issues. It is desirable also for serials check-in.     

网络环境下的西文编目信息来源

阐述了在网络环境下,通过联机书目数据库、网上免费书目数据库以及互联网上资源等信息来源,为西文编目工作服务的观点.     

从检索的角度看多卷书和丛书的著录

在许多书目数据库里多卷书和丛书检索的查全率和查准率不高．原因是著录不一致．检索点不一致。运用虚拟记录概念．采用形式层次结构著录多卷书和丛书，形成统一规范的著录，可以提高检索的查全率和查准率。     

Cataloging for Access

There is a new movement afoot to change cataloging philosophy. The aim of library cataloging has been to create a machine-readable card catalog rather than to provide optimum online access for library users. Catalogers need to become operationally engaged in the vision of the "new catalog," and take advantage of the potential of the OPAC. Cataloging for "access" rather than identification should be the motto of Technical Services Divisions in the 1990s. These discussions are already taking place in the Library of Congress, and in such forums as the Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Discussion Group.     

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.     

Federal documents in the online catalog: Problems,options, and the future

The Government Printing Office Cataloging Tapes appear at first glance to be a cost-effective and efficient method for adding bibliographic records for U.S. documents to an online catalog. However, errors and inconsistencies in these tapes compounded by the lack of documentation make it virtually impossible to load them directly into an online catalog. Currently the only options available for libraries wishing to make use of these tapes are: to purchase them from a commercial cataloging service, to catalog documents one at a time using a bibliographic utility, or to contract with a commercial data base vendor which offers access to the GPO Cataloging Tapes.