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Lewis, Barbara; Griffin, Melanie – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
Librarians have long struggled to find user-friendly mediums to provide meaningful information to patrons using bibliographies, pathfinders, and subject guides with varying degrees of success. Content management systems, such as Springshare's LibGuides, have recently been developed to facilitate the creation of online subject guides. Special…
Descriptors: Librarians, Users (Information), Bibliographies, Databases
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Klingbiel, Paul H.; Rinker, Catherine C. – Information Processing and Management, 1976
A report of several comparisons designed to measure the retrieval effectiveness of machined-aided indexing and manual indexing. (Author)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Databases, Indexes, Indexing
Mandel, Carol A. – 1981
This review of the research on subject access to library collections focuses on the problems of and prospects for improved online subject access to library collections. Summaries of the general findings of studies on library catalog use and catalog users and some reasons for the frequent failure of subject searches in library catalogs are followed…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Indexing, Library Catalogs
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Atherton, Pauline – 1977
This third quarterly report for the period January to March 1977 describes the production schedule, records, and estimated costs and times in creating the Subject Access Project data base. Plans for on-line use of the data base and search strategy design are outlined. A table of specifications for preparing the data base for on-line searching is…
Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Databases, Experimental Programs
Atherton, Pauline – 1976
The Subject Access Project second quarterly report for September to December 1976 summarized in-progress work to improve subject access to monographs. Activities include: (1) analysis of book indexes and tables of contents for terms to augment MARC subject description; (2) analysis of additional book sections--e.g., maps, illustrations, charts,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Content Analysis, Databases, Experimental Programs
Atherton, Pauline – 1978
Findings are reported for a project designed to improve subject access to books by augmenting MARC records with subject descriptions. A BOOKS data base, consisting of humanities and social science monographs, was created and made available for online searching. The availability of suitable information in books to produce augmented subject…
Descriptors: Books, Cataloging, College Libraries, Databases
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Constantinou, Constantia – College & Research Libraries, 1995
A study of 1264 incidents of journal mutilation at New York University indicates no relationship between the availability of indexing and abstracting services on CD-ROM databases and mutilation. Recommends posting warnings; raising awareness; providing adequate photocopiers, change, and vendor card machines; announcing closing time; encouraging…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Libraries, Databases, Guidelines
Smailes, Suzanne A. – 1996
This study examines the reliability of article coverage in the American Theological Library Association's (ATLA) Religion Database CD-ROM of two emerging theological fields: lesbian theology and womanist theology. Indexing predictability and consistency of coverage is important for the access of needed documents. There is concern that women's…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authority Control (Information), Cataloging, Classification