Library Cataloging
Why library catalogs fail - comments from SLA sessions by Kathy Bryce appears in Wired West v. 6 no. 4.
- Online Catalogs: What Users And Librarians Want
OCLC has released the report Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want.This new report summarizes the findings of research conducted by OCLC on what constitutes quality in library online catalogs from both end users? and librarians? points of view....
- Searching The Opac Using Im
Google Talk IM bot to search the AADL catalog describes a tool for a group to use to search the catalog.Adding a new library is variously easy or difficult depending on whether your library system has a programmer-friendly way to display search results....
- Rights Metadata
Following the example of Yahoo!'s CC-search that was released in March 2004 and then incorporated into Yahoo!'s Advanced Search page, Google has incorporated a new element into its Advanced Search page that allows users to filter their search...
- Cataloging
On the Theory of Library Catalogs and Search Engines Supplementing the talk on "Principles and Goals of Cataloging", German Librarians' Annual Conference Augsburg 2002 by B. Eversberg has been updated. The topics examined are: What is a good catalog?;...
- Amazon.com Citations
Amazon seems to be getting into the citation linking game.Amazon.com Citations is a program that helps customers discover books related to the ones they're interested in. Amazon scans every book in the Search Inside the Book program looking for phrases...
Library Cataloging
Cataloging
Why library catalogs fail - comments from SLA sessions by Kathy Bryce appears in Wired West v. 6 no. 4.
I think Roy Tennant summed up the call to action with the phrase "surface the content". Library catalog users are used to searching Google and Amazon - how can librarians compete and learn from the success of these two search interfaces? His challenge was to search a library catalog and then search for that same title on Amazon - which gives the user more useful information?
- Online Catalogs: What Users And Librarians Want
OCLC has released the report Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want.This new report summarizes the findings of research conducted by OCLC on what constitutes quality in library online catalogs from both end users? and librarians? points of view....
- Searching The Opac Using Im
Google Talk IM bot to search the AADL catalog describes a tool for a group to use to search the catalog.Adding a new library is variously easy or difficult depending on whether your library system has a programmer-friendly way to display search results....
- Rights Metadata
Following the example of Yahoo!'s CC-search that was released in March 2004 and then incorporated into Yahoo!'s Advanced Search page, Google has incorporated a new element into its Advanced Search page that allows users to filter their search...
- Cataloging
On the Theory of Library Catalogs and Search Engines Supplementing the talk on "Principles and Goals of Cataloging", German Librarians' Annual Conference Augsburg 2002 by B. Eversberg has been updated. The topics examined are: What is a good catalog?;...
- Amazon.com Citations
Amazon seems to be getting into the citation linking game.Amazon.com Citations is a program that helps customers discover books related to the ones they're interested in. Amazon scans every book in the Search Inside the Book program looking for phrases...