This is a scan of Memorablia Ranganathan edited by M.A. Gopinath. It contains quotes from Ranganathan's other books. and below is the Introduction by M.A. Gopinath, the Editor: 1. Memorablia Ranganathan is an attempt to make live the thoughts of Prof. S. R. Ranganathan. 2. He was a thinker, analyser, consolidator of his thoughts and used to put them in a crisp and telling manner. 3. His thoughts ranged on many subjects, but most of them were on libraries, library and information science and service. 4. To help Ranganathan Reader with a sort of a ready reckoner on his thoughts and expressions, they are brought together in the form of a book. 5. This forms part of Ranganathan Birth Centenary Celebrations and this book is published in this series. 6. This document is compiled by the younger generation of librarians. 7. It also contains a short biography of Ranganathan. This is a title in the dLIST Classics project. © Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS). Permission for non-profit use granted by SRELS. To purchase reprints of this work, please visit Ess Ess Publications at http://www.essessreference.com/.

Folksonomies have the potential to add much value to public library catalogues by enabling clients to: store, maintain, and organize items of interest in the catalogue using their own tags. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the tags that constitute folksonomies are structured. Tags were acquired over a thirty-day period from the daily tag logs of three folksonomy sites, Del.icio.us, Furl, and Technorati. The tags were evaluated against section 6 (choice and form of terms) of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) guidelines for the construction of controlled vocabularies. This evaluation revealed that the folksonomy tags correspond closely to the NISO guidelines that pertain to the types of concepts expressed by the tags, the predominance of single tags, the predominance of nouns, and the use of recognized spelling. Potential problem areas in the structure of the tags pertain to the inconsistent use of the singular and plural form of count nouns, and the incidence of ambiguous tags in the form of homographs and unqualified abbreviations or acronyms. Should library catalogues decide to incorporate folksonomies, they could provide clear guidelines to address these noted weaknesses, as well as links to external dictionaries and references sources such as Wikipedia to help clients disambiguate homographs and to determine if the full or abbreviated forms of tags would be preferable.

Information finding is changing in a world of digital information and associated search systems, with particular focus on methods of locating information that are distinct from, but complementary to, established practices of bibliographic description. A full understanding of these developments is essential in re-thinking bibliographic control in the new millennium, because they fundamentally change the roles and importance of bibliographic metadata in information discovery processes. There are three major approaches to finding information: through bibliographic surrogates, that represent an intellectual description of aspects and attributes of a work; through computational, content-based techniques that compare queries to parts of the actual works themselves; and through social processes that consider works in relationship to the user and his or her characteristics and history, to other works, and also to the behavior of other communities of users.

Prepared for EAD@10: A Symposium Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Encoded Archival Description.

This dissertation presents a new metadata design, as part of a large digitization management system being developed, to assist in the consistent creation of digital libraries of phonograph records. The Metadata provides digital libraries with an effective tool for the description, discovery, management, control, delivery, and sharing of digital objects of phonograph record. The metadata design is the outcome of two pilot projects for the digitization of phonograph records that took place at the Marvin Duchow Music Library at McGill University. The new design offers an approach to maintaining and using digital sound and ensures the long-term viability of digital libraries of phonograph records. / The dissertation discusses key areas of preservation and addresses the most common retrieval problems of music in digital libraries. These problems include challenges in the digital context of bibliographic control, cataloging, distribution, and copyright protection. The dissertation revisits traditional cataloging approaches, summarizes historical music cataloging and metadata development, sets up preservation principles and rationales for digitizing phonograph records, and presents state-of-the-art techniques for preserving phonograph records in the digital domain. / The dissertation contains three main parts. The first is an introduction to the new metadata design for phonograph records. The second is a metadata dictionary, which assigns precise syntactic and semantic meanings to metadata elements, to guide digitizers working in libraries, archives, museums, and heritage sectors. These will be followed by two case studies of phonograph record digitization projects using the Metadata and the Data Dictionary. The dissertation concludes by examining three challenges that are critical to future development in both the preserving of and access to phonograph records: the issue of interoperability between different metadata standards, the need for usability and quality evaluation of digitization management systems, and the importance of further development in digital library retrieval services and tools.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1996. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 439-493).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 1983. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 320-328).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1996. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 439-493).

Thesis (ED. S.)--George Peabody College for Teachers, 1974. / Bibliography: leaf 113.

Thesis (D.L.S.)--Columbia University, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-185).