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The Library Catalogue in a Networked Environment

Delsey, Tom (2000) The Library Catalogue in a Networked Environment. In Proceedings Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium, Washington.

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Abstract

This paper provides an overview of how technology has changed the relationships between the library catalogue, the catalogue user, alternative sources of bibliographic data, and the resources described in the catalogue. It looks--from a technical perspective--at what those changes mean for the way we support various interfaces to the catalogue, and it highlights changes in approach that will be needed in order to maintain and enhance the effectiveness of those interfaces in an evolving networked environment.

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:Catalogue, Networked Environment,Technology,User Interface,Resource Interface,Abstract/Index Interface,Union Catalogue Interface
Subjects:Cataloging
Information Science
Informetrics
Information Systems
ID Code:583
Deposited On:08 April 2005
Alternative Locations:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/delsey_paper.html
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Notes

IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report. Munchen: K.G. Saur, 1998.

Delsey, Tom. The Logical Structure of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules: Parts I and II. Accessible on the AACR web site at www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/aacrdel.htm (Part I) and at www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/aacrdel2.htm (Part II).

For an analysis of key issues relating to display of search results in the online catalogue see Allyson Carlyle, "Fulfilling the Second Objective in the Online Catalog: Schemes for Organizing Author and Work Records into Usable Displays," Library Resources and Technical Services, Vol. 41, No. 2 (April 1997), pp. 79-100.

For a description of one research project testing and evaluating a user interface supporting simultaneous access to a number of library catalogues through Z39.50 see F.H. Ayres, L.P.S. Nielsen, and M.J. Ridley, "BOPAC2: A New Concept in OPAC Design and Bibliographic Control," Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1999), pp. 17-44.

The Bath Profile: An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery. Release 1.1. June 2000. Accessible via the UKOLN site at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/bath/1.1/

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