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Article
Publication date: 1 January 1966

BARBARA R.F. KYLE

Catalogues of special libraries are primarily finding tools, and not repositories of exemplary cataloguing. Author and name entries, no less than subject entries, should be…

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Catalogues of special libraries are primarily finding tools, and not repositories of exemplary cataloguing. Author and name entries, no less than subject entries, should be evaluated from the point of view of information retrieval. Multiple entries on unit cards generously used may well be justified not only on grounds of efficiency but also on grounds of economy. Stationery, duplicating, and space for extra cards are often cheaper than man‐hours spent in thinking, argument, and fruitless searches. Entries for periodical articles should not be separated from the main catalogue. Series entries in numerical order should include reasons for any deliberately excluded items. A study is made of two possible inquiries and of how far author and name entries may usefully be made for ‘sponsors’ as well as authors of publications. The use of agreed abbreviations is advocated as an economy. Biographee entries should be made in the author catalogue for studies of the work of specialist organizations. Use of book‐reviews for finding critiques of works of such organizations is suggested. Case studies of actual searches should form the basis in compiling a cataloguing code for special libraries.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 22 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1957

YVONNE RUYSSEN, SUZANNE HONORÉ and ELIZABETH FUDAKOWSKA

Until recent years in French libraries works emanating from or sponsored by a corporate body were considered anonymous and catalogued as such. And yet, how many librarians working…

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Until recent years in French libraries works emanating from or sponsored by a corporate body were considered anonymous and catalogued as such. And yet, how many librarians working in research libraries could have felt entirely satisfied with this method? Who has not heard readers' complaints and criticisms on the subject? How many of us have not attempted to remedy this by more or less empirical solutions? For works of this kind, indeed, the strict rule of entering anonymous works under the first word of the title often appeared absurd and liable to prevent the reader from finding them. How could a research worker find in the alphabetical author and title catalogue of a university library a given collective publication issued by a research laboratory well known to specialists, if the title‐page of the publication happened to begin with neither the name of the laboratory, nor with the title of the treatise or report in question?

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 13 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1967

JOAN FRIEDMAN and ALAN JEFFREYS

A survey was made by questionnaire of cataloguing and classification in fifty‐one university libraries. The returned questionnaires revealed many, differences in the…

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A survey was made by questionnaire of cataloguing and classification in fifty‐one university libraries. The returned questionnaires revealed many, differences in the classification systems, cataloguing codes, and filing rules used, as well as in the kind and amount of detail in a catalogue entry. There were wide variations in the estimates by libraries of the annual output of a hypothetical ‘average’ cataloguer. There was little uniformity in the statistical data collected by libraries of the work of their cataloguing departments. Little use was made of existing centralized cataloguing services and reasons for this are suggested. More study of user's catalogue needs is necessary. The problems of standardization must be resolved if mechanized techniques are to be fully exploited.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 23 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

Article
Publication date: 1 May 1991

Frederick G. Kilgour

An analysis of library use studies previously published by this author (Kilgour 1989) revealed that of every hundred user requests for a book, seven are not satisfied because the…

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An analysis of library use studies previously published by this author (Kilgour 1989) revealed that of every hundred user requests for a book, seven are not satisfied because the library has not acquired the book, eleven because there is a defect in the catalog or error in its use (3.45 to deficiency and 7.55 to user error), and twenty‐three because the book is not on the shelf. This paper demonstrates types of online catalog access that can reduce the failures caused by card catalog flaws or by user search errors by half.

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Online Review, vol. 15 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-314X

Book part
Publication date: 28 June 1991

Betty G. Bengtson

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Library Technical Services: Operations and Management
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-84950-795-0

Article
Publication date: 1 April 1987

STEPHEN A. OSIOBE

The card catalogue has as its prime objective the provision of multiple access points to the library's collection. To achieve this objective, card entries are made by author

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The card catalogue has as its prime objective the provision of multiple access points to the library's collection. To achieve this objective, card entries are made by author, title and subject headings. Within the main body of the catalogue card, other items of information are included in varying amounts of detail by librarians to aid the reader in locating and identifying a given material he may wish to consult within the library's holdings.

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Library Review, vol. 36 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

Article
Publication date: 1 February 1967

James A. Tait

FOR CATALOGUERS, and librarians generally, 1967 will prove to be a vintage year, the annus mirabilis for the cataloguer, with the publication in January of the American text of…

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FOR CATALOGUERS, and librarians generally, 1967 will prove to be a vintage year, the annus mirabilis for the cataloguer, with the publication in January of the American text of the new Anglo‐American Code. The British text is expected to be published in November. The availability in this country of the American text gives some little time for a preview of the British version. The profession has had ample warning; the new code has had a long gestation period. For the Americans, especially, it is the culmination of many years of effort, from their preliminary second edition of the 1908 code in 1941, through the second edition of 1949, the Library of Congress Rules for Descriptive Cataloging of the same year, the Lubetzky Report of 1953, the Draft Code of 1960, to the Paris Principles of 1961. The present code owes very much to its predecessors, particularly the Paris Principles, which were in effect a set of guidelines agreed on internationally to ensure broad international consistency between any future national codes without spelling out the detailed rules. Except for one or two instances the new code follows the Paris Principles closely.

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Library Review, vol. 21 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

Article
Publication date: 11 July 2016

Anna Mikkonen and Pertti Vakkari

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate fiction readers’ interest criteria when selecting novels in library catalogs for various search tasks.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate fiction readers’ interest criteria when selecting novels in library catalogs for various search tasks.

Design/methodology/approach

The data of the book selection behavior from 80 genuine fiction readers were collected using recorded interviews and conversations. The data were qualitatively analyzed. Reuter’s categorization of the components of aesthetic relevance has contributed to the construction of interest dimensions.

Findings

A five-dimension categorization of interest criteria is presented based on fiction readers’ interpretations of the influential factors in fiction book selection in different search tasks. The findings revealed that readers apply the identified interest criteria in a flexible and multiphase way depending to the search task and the system used. The findings showed a context-related pattern in readers’ fiction book selections. A combination of readers’ search capacities, “behind the eyes” knowledge, affective factors and a well-functioning interaction with a system used results in a successful book selection.

Originality/value

A five-dimension categorization of adult fiction readers’ interest criteria was created based on their search behaviors in library catalogs. The results provide a systematic step toward a comprehensive understanding of readers’ fiction book selection in digital environments.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 72 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Article
Publication date: 1 June 1910

ACCORDING to the Directory of Libraries in the United States and Canada, there are about 4,500 libraries of a more or less public character in those two countries. The Literary

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ACCORDING to the Directory of Libraries in the United States and Canada, there are about 4,500 libraries of a more or less public character in those two countries. The Literary Year‐book, Clegg's Directory, and other authorities, furnish the information that at least 2,000 public libraries exist in the United Kingdom. Allowing 10,000 more for the rest of the world, we get a total of 16,500 libraries. Deducting three‐fourths of this number as representing libraries of the smallest and most poverty‐stricken or special kind, we obtain 4,000 institutions capable of supporting professional literature of all forms. A sanguine librarian might be induced by these figures to launch out in authorship, certain of his market, and might even be prone to disregard the warning that not more than about one‐tenth of these 4,000 libraries are to be depended upon as possible purchasers.

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New Library World, vol. 12 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1984

Frederick G. Kilgour

Introduction This paper will examine the possibility of constructing an online international union catalog from machine readable entries originating in different countries…

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Introduction This paper will examine the possibility of constructing an online international union catalog from machine readable entries originating in different countries. Benefits of such a union catalog would be extensive, since it would greatly increase availability of library resources internationally and reduce rates of rise of processing costs in participating libraries. The discussion of catalog entries will be limited to descriptive cataloging and will include only title and author elements, only catalog entries originating in different language regions, and only catalog entries in machine readable form.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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