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Dialogue with an OPAC: How Visionary Was Swanson in 1964?
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Su, Shiao-Feng – Library Quarterly, 1994
Traces the development of online public access catalogs (OPACs) and compares what has occurred with a 1964 article that outlined recommendations for a future card catalog. Subject access is emphasized, including Library of Congress Subject Headings, expansion of OPACs, user-friendly interfaces, new technologies, and current visions of the future…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Library Catalogs, Online Catalogs, Subject Index Terms
Classification Clustering, Probabilistic Information Retrieval, and the Online Catalog.
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Larson, Ray R. – Library Quarterly, 1991
Discusses problems with subject searches in online library catalogs and examines theoretical principles for the design of effective information retrieval systems. Probabilistic ranking methods are discussed, and an experimental online catalog called CHESHIRE is described. It is noted that CHESHIRE uses classification clustering, provides natural…
Descriptors: Classification, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs, Online Catalogs
From Acting Locally to Thinking Globally: A Brief History of Library Automation.
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Borgman, Christine L. – Library Quarterly, 1997
Discusses the history of American and British experiences with library automation and contrasts them with recent developments in central and eastern Europe. Highlights include efficiency of internal operations, including cataloging data; access to internal and external library resources, including online catalogs and document delivery; and…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Document Delivery, Foreign Countries
The Carthusian Library at Basel.
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Halporn, Barbara – Library Quarterly, 1984
Describes problems faced by late medieval libraries during period of transition from the manuscript to the printed book. A translation of a manual created for a Swiss monastery circa 1520 provides information on librarian's duties, arrangement of the library, procedures for inventorying and cataloging, circulation, and public services. (31…
Descriptors: Archives, Guides, Library Administration, Library Catalogs
An Irish Library and a European tour, 1815-1817.
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Cole, Richard C. – Library Quarterly, 1985
Recounts 1815-1817 travels of John Singleton V, an Anglo-Irish Protestant landed aristocrat (ca. 1793-1877), as recorded in travel journal bound with manuscript catalog for library of Quinville Abbey, County Clare, Ireland. Titles in private library's collection are noted. Thirty-seven library holdings cited in Singleton's travel journal are…
Descriptors: Archives, Diaries, Foreign Countries, Library Catalogs
On the Use of Form Headings in an Alphabetical Catalog.
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Lubetzky, Seymour – Library Quarterly, 1999
Originally written in the 1950s, this article addresses the question of subdividing and grouping entries under a given author as a main entry that paved the way for the American Library Association's Catalog Code Revision of 1967. It also includes referee responses by Elaine Svenonius, Allyson Carlyle, and Michael Carpenter. (LRW)
Descriptors: Authors, Cataloging, Information Processing, Information Retrieval
Monopoly Power and Electronic Journals.
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Meyer, Richard W. – Library Quarterly, 1997
Rising periodical prices and lagging library budgets have many academics hoping that scholarly print journals will migrate to online versions. Examines economic factors shaping the electronic journal market, emerging new electronic journals, access versus ownership, consortial purchasing, self-maintained infrastructures, elimination of tenure and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Consortia, Costs