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Aubry, John – Library Quarterly, 1972
Experiments were designed and carried out in an attempt to identify some parameters relating to ease of manual searching in library catalogs. A comparison of the difficulty of searching the same file in card form and book form indicated that searching the book catalog generally requires more time. (4 references) (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Book Catalogs, Catalogs, Classification, Experiments
ALA Bull, 1969
Descriptors: Book Catalogs, Libraries, Library Collections, Publications

Jensen, Bruce – MultiCultural Review, 2003
Asserts that despite growing awareness of frontline public service concerns in accommodating Spanish speakers, little care is invested in the technical processing side of the library's responsibility to Spanish speakers. Examines the usefulness and accessibility of online public access catalogs for monolingual Spanish readers, focusing on records…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Library Catalogs, Library Collections, Online Catalogs

Perry, Margaret – RQ, 1971
The general conclusion of this study indicates a wide, if uneven, use of college catalogs in academic libraries. (Author)
Descriptors: Catalogs, College Libraries, Library Collections, Library Surveys
1974
A union list of pre-1801 books in British libraries has long been needed, but its compilation has always fallen outside the capacities of existing manual systems. This report discusses an experimental project to devise, test, and evaluate techniques for the compilation of such a union catalog. To scale down the proposed catalog for the experiment,…
Descriptors: Automation, Book Catalogs, Cataloging, College Libraries
Welsh, William J. – American Libraries, 1981
Reviews the history of the National Union Catalog and the publication of the Pre-1956 Imprints. The roles of the ALA and Mansell Publishing in the completion of what is probably the last large-scale nonautomated bibliographic project, editorial problems, and the role of automation in future projects are discussed. (JL)
Descriptors: Book Catalogs, Cataloging, Futures (of Society), Library Collections
Parker, J. Carlyle – Library Journal, 1980
Recommends that librarians locally develop mini-union catalogs to provide for increased access to library materials and to facilitate interlibrary loan. Practical instruction is provided for the preparation of such catalogs. (RAA)
Descriptors: Instruction, Interlibrary Loans, Librarians, Library Catalogs
Bogen, Betty – 1975
Eccles Medical Sciences Library at the University of Utah has developed a computer-generated catalog for its audiovisual health and medical materials. The catalog contains four sections: (1) the main listing of type of media, with descriptions, call numbers, and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) used for each item; (2) a listing by title, with call…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Book Catalogs, Catalogs, Computer Oriented Programs

Saunders, Richard – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1994
Proposes several methods to catalog monographs that are part of collections to provide users with access to the collection as well as to the individual titles. Highlights include MARC records; online catalogs; bibliographic listings; numeric links through classification schemes; tracing links; and host-item entries. (Contains nine references.)…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Records, Books, Cataloging

Helstien, Brian A. – Electronic Library, 1995
Addresses an article written by Nicholson Baker in 1994 that lamented the demise of the paper card catalog, and points out important aspects of online catalogs and library computerization not discussed by Baker: authority control, collection preservation, collection costs, and access to materials. (JKP)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authority Control (Information), Card Catalogs, Comparative Analysis

Senkevitch, Judith J.; Sweetland, James H. – RQ, 1996
Describes a study that used the OCLC Online Union Catalog to identify those adult fiction books owned by the largest number of public libraries to determine whether a core collection of titles could be identified for use in evaluating adult fiction collections. Future research is recommended and a list of the top 99 titles is appended. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Methods, Fiction, Library Collection Development
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

Thomas, Wendy – Microform Review, 1990
Discusses some problems in accessing the microform collection of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library using the library's printed and online catalogs. Creation of an in-house automated microforms database is described, including software, selection and downloading of records, updating, and searching the database. (MES)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Library Catalogs, Library Collections
Phillips, Clifford R. – 1979
Designed to outline and illustrate, through the use of a card catalog or computer produced catalog, the various formats used to describe the collection of the Inglewood Public Library, this report details a nonautomated approach representative of those commonly used in libraries prior to the use of data processing applications. The goal of…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Cataloging, Guides, Librarians

Rochester, Maxine K. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1987
Reports the methodology and results of a study which explored the potential of three approaches to sampling the Australian Bibliographic Network (ABN) database files for determining collection overlap among Australian libraries. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Library Collections, Library Networks