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Polly, Jean Armour – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1992
Describes resources available through INTERNET that are of interest to librarians, including electronic newsletters and serials, online library catalogs, bulletin boards, remote access to software or text files, utilities to help navigate the network, sources for learning more about the INTERNET, discussion list guides, and INTERNET library…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Electronic Publishing, Internet, Library Catalogs
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Henry, Marcia – Internet Research, 1997
There are several ways to connect to library catalogs on the Internet: telneting, links via home pages, and online directories. This article discusses Hytelnet and Libgopher, online directories which list available catalogs and make telnet connections to them. Hytelnet is a good resource for OPAC statistics and Libgopher provides keyword…
Descriptors: Directories, Internet, Keywords, Library Catalogs
Medeiros, Norm – Online, 1999
Describes the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, an international standard for describing information resources being used to describe Internet resources. Discusses the changing nature of MARC, Dublin core versus MARC for cataloging records, Dublin Core in the library world, and the OCLC-sponsored CORC (Cooperative Online Resources Catalog) project.…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Internet, Library Catalogs, Library Cooperation
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Vellucci, Sherry L. – Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 1996
Examines strengths and weaknesses of organizational systems developed to organize and access electronic resources available via the Internet. Highlights include library online catalogs; cataloging rules and MARC records; text encoding initiative (TEI) headers; the Internet union catalog; browsing lists; robot-generated indexes; a core data set of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automatic Indexing, Cataloging, Information Retrieval
Crawford, Walt – American Libraries, 1999
Discusses debates that still continue over the value of card catalogs versus online catalogs and other library technology. Highlights include user opinions and needs, libraries being ahead of users in the use of technology, the information age, the value of cataloging, full-text searching, meaning extraction, dataspaces, and the Internet. (LRW)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Internet, Library Automation, Library Catalogs
Veatch, James R. – American Libraries, 1999
Describes how the Nashville State Tech Library has added Internet resource links to its home page and online catalog. Highlights include original cataloging for Web sites, selection and cataloging criteria, problems encountered, and faculty attitudes and input. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Criteria, Higher Education
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Hopkins, Alison; Sapiie, Jacquelyn – Reference Librarian, 1999
Describes the results of a survey of public service librarians conducted by the Queens Borough Public Library to determine their confidence levels of using electronic resource to answer reference questions. Results demonstrated high confidence levels in using the library's online catalog and lower confidence in using the Internet. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Internet, Librarians, Library Catalogs, Library Research
Chen, Ching-chih – Microcomputers for Information Management, 1996
Summarizes how the Library of Congress' digital library collections can be accessed globally via the Internet and World Wide Web. Outlines the resources found in each of the various access points: gopher, online catalog, library and legislative Web sites, legal and copyright databases, and FTP (file transfer protocol) sites. (LAM)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, File Transfer Protocol, Internet
Brown, Christopher C. – Database, 1994
Discusses online library catalogs that are accessible via the Internet and describes their use to create bibliographies using EndNote software. Three catalogs are described that need no further editing; two are described that need some editing; examples of records are given; and the systems are compared. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis
Telerski, R. Michele – 1995
This study examines how American Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries catalog full-volume, monographic, non-cartographic, preservation photocopies and explores the use of full, minimal, or dependent bibliographic records. It analyzes On-line Public Access Catalog (OPAC) records structure for multiple versions materials in terms…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Case Studies, Cataloging
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Waldhart, Thomas J.; Miller, Joseph B.; Chan, Lois Mai – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2000
Discusses the need to provide academic library clients more efficient and effective access to Internet information resources that have value for higher education. Examines local systems that Association of Research Libraries (ARL) academic libraries have developed over the last several years in response to this need. (Contains 13 references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Educational Resources, Higher Education
Rogers, Diane – Cataloguing Australia, 1997
One of the recent innovations attempting to catalog Internet resources is a standard for resource description called the Dublin Core metadata set. Discussion includes application of library standards; development of metadata elements; ongoing refinement of the elements; and applying the Dublin Core. (AEF)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Information Policy, Information Sources
Neville, Lindy – Cataloguing Australia, 1997
Examines some of the incentives behind cataloging on the Internet. Discusses the Dublin Core metadata elements set which attempts to apply traditional cataloging practices to new technologies. Looks at the practicalities of such a system, including three obvious benefits to mapping Dublin Core elements to MARC fields. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Information Retrieval, Information Sources
Machovec, George S., Ed. – Online Libraries and Microcomputers, 1998
The Dublin Core (DC) metadata standard is emerging as one of the leading initiatives in digitization programs; as libraries, museums, archives and others begin to digitize their physical materials it will be imperative that internationally recognized standards be used. Key elements behind the development of DC, and the 15 fields of DC are…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Cataloging, Information Policy, Information Retrieval
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Cooper, Michael D. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Presents a methodology for analyzing patterns of usage of a Web-based library catalog and evaluates the methodology with data collected from the transaction logs of the Web interface version of the University of California's Melvyl Systemwide Library Catalog. Results revealed major differences in usage (number of searches, search time, number of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Information Seeking, Internet
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