Library Cataloging
Thom Hickey writes in his weblog, Outgoing, about improving searching in databases. He has a working demonstration of the LCSH and a library catalog.
OPAC
- Fine Tuning Frbr
Thom Hickey at Outgoing describes using the thematic index number or code in music records that helps identify the piece described to get better clustering results in FRBR. Looks like a very useful tweak. FRBR...
- The Opac And Oai
The winner of the OCLC software contest is Dazhi (David) Jiao of Bloomington Indiana for his OPAC.CAT-OAI integrates OAI harvesting and metadat searching to OPAC search engines and expands users' discoveries in a OPAC search results to related web-accesible...
- Enhanced Opacs
Does your OPAC provide services or tools beyond the norm? If so Steven Cohen, at Library Stuff, want to hear about it. Once he has had a few replies it might be a good place to get ideas for improving your own OPAC. OPAC...
- Subject Searching
Subject searching in the OPAC of a special library: problems and issues by M.S. Sridhar in OCLC Systems & Services (2004) vol. 20, no. 4 pp.183-191This paper draws on data from a comparative study of use of the online public access catalogue (OPAC) and...
- Z39.50
"Z39.50 and personal bibliographic software" by John W East in Library Hi Tech (2003) vol. 21 no. 1 pp. 34 - 43Many thousands of researchers are now using personal bibliographic managers such as Reference Manager, EndNote and ProCite to access bibliographic...
Library Cataloging
Searching the OPAC
Thom Hickey writes in his weblog, Outgoing, about improving searching in databases. He has a working demonstration of the LCSH and a library catalog.
OPAC
- Fine Tuning Frbr
Thom Hickey at Outgoing describes using the thematic index number or code in music records that helps identify the piece described to get better clustering results in FRBR. Looks like a very useful tweak. FRBR...
- The Opac And Oai
The winner of the OCLC software contest is Dazhi (David) Jiao of Bloomington Indiana for his OPAC.CAT-OAI integrates OAI harvesting and metadat searching to OPAC search engines and expands users' discoveries in a OPAC search results to related web-accesible...
- Enhanced Opacs
Does your OPAC provide services or tools beyond the norm? If so Steven Cohen, at Library Stuff, want to hear about it. Once he has had a few replies it might be a good place to get ideas for improving your own OPAC. OPAC...
- Subject Searching
Subject searching in the OPAC of a special library: problems and issues by M.S. Sridhar in OCLC Systems & Services (2004) vol. 20, no. 4 pp.183-191This paper draws on data from a comparative study of use of the online public access catalogue (OPAC) and...
- Z39.50
"Z39.50 and personal bibliographic software" by John W East in Library Hi Tech (2003) vol. 21 no. 1 pp. 34 - 43Many thousands of researchers are now using personal bibliographic managers such as Reference Manager, EndNote and ProCite to access bibliographic...