Electronic access to fiction

Abstract

If library users are expected to reserve, renew, issue and return books without the intervention of library staff, they must surely be expected to select the items themselves as well. Andrew MacEwan describes how a new fiction indexing initiative by the British Library will offer subject‐based access to fiction, to allow users to use subject matter as the basis of choice in the same way as non‐fiction.

Citation

MacEwan, A. (1997), "Electronic access to fiction", VINE, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 41-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb040625