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Online Catalogs and Shelflist Files: A Survey of ARL Libraries.
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Epple, Margie; Ginder, Bernice – Information Technology and Libraries, 1987
Describes a survey of research libraries with online catalogs planned or in place that examined the status of card catalogs, shelf list files, and the capability of online systems to handle traditional shelf list functions. The functions examined include inventory control, collection assessment, holdings information, and call number assignment.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Card Catalogs, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
From Cards to Online: The Asian Connection.
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Rogers, Gloria H. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1986
Description of the conversion of San Diego State University Library's Asian collection from catalog cards to online catalog through OCLC discusses technical problems involved in creating databases with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean vernacular characters. Ambiguities created by romanization and decision to convert the collection only in romanized…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Asian Studies, Higher Education, Information Retrieval
To Merge and Not to Merge: Israel's Union List of Monographs in the Context of Merging Algorithms.
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Lazinger, Susan S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1994
Describes the history and development of the algorithm that was used to produce a union list of monographs for ALEPH (Automated Library Expandable Program Hebrew University), Israel's research library network. The literature on merging online records is reviewed, case studies are examined, and problems with matching and merging online…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Algorithms, Bibliographic Records, Case Studies
Testing Bibliographic Displays for Online Catalogs.
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Crawford, Walt – Information Technology and Libraries, 1987
Reports the design, methodology, and results of a research project which examined the effectiveness of bibliographic displays produced by online catalogs. A means of testing displays against several hundred thousand records at a reasonable cost and using that to test several display possibilities is described. (CLB)
Descriptors: Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Evaluation Methods
Costs and Features of Online Catalogs: The State of the Art.
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Lawrence, Gary S.; And Others – Information Technology and Libraries, 1983
Discusses features of online library catalogs and their cost characteristics, including financial management and planning (hardware and software options, turnkey vendors); approaches to cost analysis (actual experiences, building blocks); baseline estimates for two average academic libraries; and vendor estimates. Forty-five references and a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Higher Education, Library Administration
Measuring the Performance of a Merging Algorithm: Mismatches, Missed-Matches, and Overlap in Israel's Union List.
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Meir, Daniel D.; Lazinger, Susan S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998
Reports on a survey measuring the performance of a merging algorithm used to generate the now-defunct ULM (Union List of Monographs) file for ALEPH, Israel's research library network. Discusses automatic detection and merging of duplicate bibliographic records, problems created by lack of a standard for Hebrew spelling, and methods for measuring…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Data Processing