Thesis (A.M.L.S.)--University of Michigan, 1959. Cf. Library literature, 1958-1960, p. 250. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 16 (1st group)).

Thesis (A.M.L.S.)--University of Michigan, 1959. Cf. Library literature, 1958-1960, p. 250. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 16 (1st group)).

This study explores the concept of "quality" in library cataloging and examines the perception of quality cataloging among catalogers who work in academic libraries. An examination of the concept of "quality cataloging" in library science literature revealed that even though there is some general agreement on how this concept is defined, the level of detail and focus of these definitions often vary. These various perceptions were dissected in order to develop a framework for evaluating quality cataloging definitions; this framework was used to evaluate study participants' definitions of quality cataloging. Studying cataloger perceptions of quality cataloging is important because it is catalogers (particularly original catalogers) who are largely responsible for what is included in bibliographic records. Survey participants (n = 296) provided their personal definition of quality cataloging as well as their opinions on their department's cataloging, their influence upon their department's policies and procedures, and the specific data that should be included in a quality bibliographic record. Interview participants (n = 20) provided insight on how their opinions of quality cataloging were formed and the influences that shaped these opinions.

In this article, problems users are having searching for known works in current online public access catalogs (OPACs) are summarized. A better understanding of AACR2R/MARC 21 authority, bibliographic, and holdings records would allow us to implement the approaches outlined in the IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records to enhance, or â FRBRize,â our current OPACs using existing records. The presence of work and expression identifiers in bibliographic and authority records is analyzed. Recommendations are made concerning better indexing and display of works and expressions/manifestations. Questions are raised about the appropriateness for the creation of true catalogs of clientserver technology that deliver records over the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Zheng zhi da xue. / Reproduced from typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: p. 229-259.

This poster highlights a collaboration between a health sciences library and an integrative medicine program, to organize the latter's collection, offer its content via the library's online catalog, and allow limited circulation while maintaining the physical collection in the program. With limited library staff and a need to maintain availability of materials to the program, numerous issues needed addressing. First, the library did not have a cataloger with sufficient subject expertise and available time to handle the project in a timely manner. The solution was collaboration between a reference librarian with subject expertise and technical services personnel. Technical issues involved creating new locations in the online catalog and suppressing cataloging records from public view until the program is ready to share resources with the university community. NLM call numbers and Medical Subject Headings were used to achieve complete integration with the library's catalog. Some original cataloging was needed; subject headings in older records were updated (i.e., changing the old heading alternative medicine to the current complementary therapies). Some titles falling outside of health sciences fields needed Library of Congress call numbers. Future plans include: completing work on existing volumes, the library continuing to catalogthe program's materials, and setting up a circulation station in the program's library, with materials circulating according to policies determined by the program in consultation with appropriate library units. The collaboration between reference and technical services librarians has offered benefits both for the librarians involved and for the library as a whole. The integrative medicine program has not yet opened its doors to public use, so it is too early to report on feedback from users outside the program. However, the program is finding that NLM cataloging allows more efficient organization and retrieval of materials. All university departments benefit by access to a more extensive collection in this specialized area. The integrative medicine program and the library are finding this collaboration fruitful, and the programs's faculty and staff look forward to sharing resources with the university community.

Libraries operate within a culture that posits collaborating towards a common good, through resource sharing, cooperative development of standards, and the building of common work tools. The semantic Web, and the recent rapprochement between RDA and DCMI, have the potential to advance our contribution to the common good in ways that have never been possible before, yet there are still economic, legal, technical and cultural hurdles that are likely to conspire to keep libraries working within institutional silos. This talk will look at how the NCSU Libraries' is trying to work toward a more open catalog platform by creating a web services layer to support features such as RSS and by integrating structured data from outside of the ILS, starting with classification and geographical hierarchies, and potentially extending to chronological hierarchies, FRBR "work-level" records, and academic discipline-related vocabularies. These efforts point to the need for access to additional data that is outside the local machine environment. We look at some of these data sources and assess the obstacles that will have to be overcome before library catalogs, and librarians, will be able to fully join the broader Web 2.0 discovery environment.

For well over a century, the catalog has served libraries and their users as a guide and index to publications collected by an institution. The attributes of the catalog that have made it a valuable resource are desirable traits in any information management tool.The Library catalog user has traditionally assumed that items listed in the catalog were carefully chosen to support an institutional mission and that they were available for her inspection. Internet portals, gateways to the Web, like the catalog, offer access to a wide range of resources, but differ from the catalog in a number of ways, perhaps most significantly in that they facilitate searching and retrieval from a vast, often uncoordinated array of sites, rather than the carefully delimited sphere of the library's collections. Web information has proven much more volatile, ephemeral, and heterogeneous. Can we re-interpret the catalog so that it can serve effectively as a portal to the Internet? Is the catalog the appropriate model for discovery and retrieval of highly dynamic, rapidly multiplying, networked documents? Until relatively recently, the catalog has been the dominant index to published literature for library users. Web portals are rapidly usurping this primacy. Libraries today are struggling as they strain to incorporate a variety of resources in diverse formats in their catalogs and to maintain centrality and relevancy in the digital world. This paper will examine the features of the catalog and their portability to the Web, and will make recommendations about the Library catalog's role in providing access to Internet resources.

Conference is sponsored by the Library of Congress Cataloging Directorate. / The decade of the 1990s saw the development of a proliferation of metadata element sets for resource description. This paper looks at a subset of these metadata schemes in more detail: the TEI header, EAD, Dublin Core, and VRA Core. It looks at why they developed as they did, major points of difference from traditional (AACR2/MARC) library cataloging, and what advantages they offer to their user communities. It also discusses challenges to implementers of these schemes and possible future developments. It goes on to identify some commonalties among these cases, and to attempt to generalize from these some lessons for developers of metadata element sets. It concludes by suggesting we also look carefully at emerging schemes being developed by publishers in support of electronic commerce and rights management, and think seriously about the implications of commodity metadata upon our traditional bibliographic apparatus.

This keynote address recounts the many important accomplishments and advancements in cataloguing theory and practice which have occurred between 1900 and 1999, and provides a backdrop for the papers and discussions which presented in the Conference on Bibliographic Control in the New Millennium. The address also serves as an upbeat reminder of all the progress that has been made and, we hope, will inspire conference participants to tackle the challenges of networked resources and the Web with enthusiasm and resolve.