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Peer reviewedClarke, Jack A.; Henige, David – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1984
Presents two differing perspectives on materials in Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), which provides ethnographic data to member institutions on paper slips or microfilm cards: focus on HRAF and supporting tools as data retrieval system; practical promise and limitations of HRAF materials as they relate to African cultures. (11 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Ethnography, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHirshon, Arnold – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1984
Explores relationships between holdings data input into an online catalog and the output, including specific housing location, call number, size information, full-piece-specific hierarchy and enumeration, status of piece, and bibliographic or local notes. Record structure for holdings segment of Triangle Research Libraries Network online catalog…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Display Systems, Information Retrieval
National Library of Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1976
The Task Group advocates the development, with the guidance and support of the National Library of Canada, of a Canadian Library Network with the objectives of equalizing opportunity for access to information and making use of total Canadian library resources more cost-effective. This network would be composed of three interrelated components--a…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Communications, Cost Effectiveness, Databases
Download full textThomas, Sarah M.; Needle, Lester P. – 1974
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) inhouse library systems fall into two principle categories: basic library inventory systems and literature retrieval systems. Currently, the library network supports three inventory systems: the journal system; the hard bound book system; and the circulation system. At the same time, five efforts are…
Descriptors: Books, Computer Oriented Programs, Environmental Education, Information Retrieval
Zeeman, J.; Turner, F. – 1997
A distributed union catalog is a network of bibliographic systems that cooperate to enable their users to discover sites that hold copies of known items. Some participating systems will be traditional union catalogs, others will be single sites with comprehensive collections, and others will be local or regional resource sharing systems. A…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging
Lunau, Carrol; Turner, Fay – 1997
The virtual Canadian union catalog (vCuc) project is a project among Canadian libraries to use Z39.50 (an information protocol standard) for searching distributed individual library catalogs and union catalogs. This paper summarizes the major technical, vendor, bibliographic data, and administrative issues that must be resolved before the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Records, Cataloging
