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Peer reviewedJones, Richard M. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1989
Describes online catalog research being conducted in Europe in the areas of interaction and interface design, subject access, functional improvement through the application of information retrieval techniques, and library networks. Three operational online catalogs, not available outside Europe, are discussed. (30 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Retrieval, Library Networks, Library Research
Peer reviewedChaplan, Margaret A. – Library Quarterly, 1995
A study for assessing automatic vocabulary switching from a thesaurus to Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) revealed that a maximum 61%, but a more realistic 41.5%, of the terms could be switched automatically; as long as LCSH is used for subject descriptions in online catalogs, interfaces for vocabulary switching can only be partially…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Cataloging, Code Switching (Language), Computer Interfaces
Silver, Barbara – 1987
Developed at the beginning of the decade to serve as a union catalog for identifying the holdings in all University of California (UC) libraries, the MELVYL online catalog as of October 1989 contained 10 million holdings for over 5 million monographic titles of print and nonprint materials, and more than 1.2 million periodicals holdings which…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Higher Education, Library Automation
Download full textCotter, Gladys A. – 1983
As part of its mission to provide centralized services for the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of scientific and technical information (STI) to support Department of Defense (DoD) research, development, and engineering studies programs, the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) sponsors the Shared Bibliographic Input…
Descriptors: Costs, Government Libraries, Library Automation, Library Networks
Peer reviewedSroka, Marek – Information Technology and Libraries, 1997
Discusses the process of creating bibliographic and cataloging standards, after the implementation of the VTLS (Virginia Tech Library System) integrated library system, in major Polish academic libraries. Examines the adoption of the USMARC bibliographic data exchange format; authority control; subject cataloging; topical and name heading…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Authority Control (Information), Bibliographic Records, Cataloging
Peer reviewedSlater, Ron – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1991
Describes the use of MultiLIS, a fully bilingual integrated library-management software package, at Laurentian University. The authority control module is explained, its potential as a control system for multilingual or multithesaurus controlled vocabularies is considered, and an evaluation of the MultiLIS authority module is presented with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, College Libraries, Database Management Systems
