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Consumer Health Information Provision in Rural Public Libraries: A Comparison of Two Library Systems
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Flaherty, Mary Grace – Library Quarterly, 2013
To better understand health information provision in the public library setting, two cooperative library systems that serve primarily rural populations in upstate New York were studied. The central library in one of those systems established a consumer health information center (CHIC) in 1999. In the other system, the central library does not have…
Descriptors: Library Services, Public Libraries, Printed Materials, Library Personnel
Collection Overlap in the LCS Network in Illinois.
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Potter, William Gray – Library Quarterly, 1986
Twenty-one libraries in Library Computer System participated in collection overlap study. Findings of random sample representing 1% of each collection indicate that high percentage of titles, 69.4%, occurred only once in network and that percentage of each library's collection unique to that library, ranged from 6.1% to 68.4%. (21 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Higher Education
An Analysis of Interlibrary Loan and Commercial Document Supply Performance.
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Miller, Connie; Tegler, Patricia – Library Quarterly, 1988
Reports the results of a study comparing the performance of commercial document suppliers with the performance of traditional interlibrary loan. The discussion covers comparisons of speed, cost, the effect of publication characteristics on speed and cost, and success rates, as well as implications of the findings for interlibrary loan services.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Business, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
The Challenges of Nonstandardized Vendor Usage Data in a Statewide Metasearch Environment: The Library of Texas Experience
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Moen, William E.; Oguz, Fatih; McClure, Charles R. – Library Quarterly, 2004
This article describes a research and development project the objective of which was to develop a means to produce standardized statewide usage data made available from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Using a range of data collection and evaluation methods, the project staff determined that there were significant problems in…
Descriptors: Government Libraries, Standard Setting, Metadata, Information Retrieval
Whatever Became of the National Database?
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Avram, Henriette D. – Library Quarterly, 1983
Reviews programs aimed toward building of national database--RECON Working Task Force's Study of feasibility of converting the retrospective records of the Library of Congress, Cooperative MARC (COMARC), REMARC, and CONSER (continuing effort to build national database of serial records). Current efforts contributing to the evolving network are…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Information Networks, Library Cooperation
Mapping Laborline Thesaurus Terms to Library of Congress Subject Headings: Implications for Vocabulary Switching.
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Chaplan, Margaret A. – Library Quarterly, 1995
A study for assessing automatic vocabulary switching from a thesaurus to Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) revealed that a maximum 61%, but a more realistic 41.5%, of the terms could be switched automatically; as long as LCSH is used for subject descriptions in online catalogs, interfaces for vocabulary switching can only be partially…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Cataloging, Code Switching (Language), Computer Interfaces