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Reexamining Content-Enriched Access: Its Effect on Usage and Discovery
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Tosaka, Yuji; Weng, Cathy – College & Research Libraries, 2011
Content-enriched metadata in bibliographic records is considered helpful to library users in identifying and selecting library materials for their needs. The paper presents a study, using circulation data from a medium-sized academic library, of the effect of content-enriched records on library materials usage. The study also examines OPAC search…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Metadata, Bibliographic Databases, Academic Libraries
The Many Faces of a Catalog Record: A Snapshot of Bibliographic Display Practices for Monographs in Online Catalogs.
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Wool, Gregory – Information Technology and Libraries, 1996
Full displays of bibliographic records for 5 monographs were analyzed in 36 library online catalogs and compared with International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) and traditional catalog-card displays. Sampled characteristics included completeness, visual layout, data sequence, label specificity, and integration of description and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Records, Card Catalogs, Cataloging
Tables of Contents in Library Catalogs: A Quantitative Examination of Analytic Catalogs.
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Poulsen, Claus – Library Resources & Technical Services, 1996
An examination of two university libraries found composite works to represent 10% to 20% of the collections and the number of articles in each work to vary between 20 to 30 per book. Concludes that libraries could provide access to between 200% and 600% more works by just adding the table of contents of composite works to their catalogs. (PEN)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Anthologies, Cataloging
Testing a New Design for Subject Access to Online Catalogs.
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Drabenstott, Karen M.; Weller, Marjorie S. – 1995
Over the last decade, studies of online catalogs have revealed that they frequently discourage users. Subject queries often fail to produce retrievals or produce retrieval sets that are too large and unwieldy to be easily scanned. Research shows that users are seeking alternative approaches to those that manipulate the subject headings in catalog…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Analysis, Design Requirements, Indexing
Indexed Ideational Shifts in the "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States Army."
Lussky, Joan – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Explores to what extent the germ theory, when it was still a relatively new idea, is evident in the bibliographic records in the "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office of the United States Army" (Index Cat), the largest medical bibliographical tool ever published. Data suggest that scientists are quick to apply the new…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Catalogs
Online GIS Service.
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Cobb, David A.; Olivero, Arlene – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1997
Online geographic information system (GIS) services are expanding rapidly as private organizations, government agencies, and libraries are developing Web sites that deliver GIS data, graphics, and metadata. Such services are divided into five categories: graphic snapshots, spatial database catalogs and libraries, map generators, map browsers, and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Data Analysis