Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays
Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays

Author: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Task Force on Guidelines for OPAC Displays

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9783598242762

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Existing Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) demonstrate differences in the range and complexity of their functional features, terminology, and help facilities. While many libraries already have OPACs, there is a need to bring together, in the form of guidelines or recommendations, a corpus of good practice to assist libraries in designing or re-designing the displays for their OPACs, taking into consideration the needs of users. The audience for these guidelines is librarians charged with customizing OPAC software and vendors and producers of this software. The guidelines are mainly designed for general libraries with collections of resources in the humanities, the social sciences, and the pure and applied sciences. The guidelines are intended to apply to any type of catalogue, independently of the kind of interface and technology used.

IFLA Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays
IFLA Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displays

Author: Task Force on Guidelines for OPAC Displays

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-11-03

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 3598440316

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Existing Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) demonstrate differences in the range and complexity of their functional features, terminology, and help facilities. While many libraries already have OPACs, there is a need to bring together, in the form of guidelines or recommendations, a corpus of good practice to assist libraries in designing or re-designing the displays for their OPACs, taking into consideration the needs of users. The audience for these guidelines is librarians charged with customizing OPAC software and vendors and producers of this software. The guidelines are mainly designed for general libraries with collections of resources in the humanities, the social sciences, and the pure and applied sciences. The guidelines are intended to apply to any type of catalogue, independently of the kind of interface and technology used.

Subject Access
Subject Access

Author: Patrice Landry

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-06-30

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 3110234440

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This volume contains the proceedings of a special conference held in Florence, August 2009. The theoretical and methodological aspects of rethinking semantic access to information and knowledge are explored. Innovative projects deployed to cope with the challenges of the future are presented and discussed. This book offers a unique opportunity for librarians and other information professionals to get acquainted with the state of the art in subject indexing.

Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge
Libraries Driving Access to Knowledge

Author: Jesús Lau

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 3110263122

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This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approaches to the vital role of libraries driving access to knowledge. There are chapters that offer solutions and ideas to enable libraries to become the knowledge engine in society. Other chapters discuss the conceptual part of the subject and related services. The book was compiled as part of the presidential theme of Ellen Tise, IFLA President 2009-2011, with the aim of offering the reader a good portrait of the opportunities and challenges that libraries have in driving access to knowledge.

Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies
Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies

Author: IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-04-26

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 3110281104

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In a networked and globalized world of information the form of national bibliographies may have changed, however their major function remains unchanged: to inform about a country’s publication landscape, its cultural and intellectual heritage. Subject access offers a major route into this landscape providing information about the dispersion of publications in specific fields of knowledge and topics contained in a particular national publishing output. The Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies give graded recommendations concerning subject indexing policies for national bibliographic agencies and illustrating various policies by providing best practice examples.

UNIMARC & Friends: Charting the New Landscape of Library Standards
UNIMARC & Friends: Charting the New Landscape of Library Standards

Author: Marie-France Plassard

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-12-19

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 3598440340

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With the expansion of the World Wide Web during the last decade, libraries and their standards face an ever-complex environment, with new types, genres and forms of information resources. Changing information network structures and the emergence of new retrieval methods all play their roles. A three day conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2006, in order to review the current state of bibliographic standards and to discuss a number of questions in charting a future for their development.

Web-Scale Discovery Services
Web-Scale Discovery Services

Author: Roberto Raieli

Publisher: Chandos Publishing

Published: 2022-03-24

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0323902995

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Web-Scale Discovery Services: Principles, Applications, Discovery Tools and Development Hypotheses summarizes and presents the state-of-the-art in WSDS. The title promotes a middle-way between finding the best tool for each particular need and the search for the most reliable systems. The title identifies basic theoretical problems and offers practical solutions for librarians. The volume offers a summary of ideas from around the world, giving a new perspective that is backed up by strong theory. Offering a vision for libraries, this book also allows archivists, museum specialists, computer scientists, commercial operators and interested users to deepen their culture and information literacy. The great number of information sources now available and the changing habits of web users has led to the development of Web Scale Discovery Services (WSDS). The goal of these systems and techniques is to make catalogues, databases, institutional repositories, Open Access archives and other databases searchable and discoverable through a single point of access. The diffusion of systems and connections between data disseminated by libraries and published by other institutions poses a challenge to understanding discovery in the modern library. - Lays out the state-of-the-art in WSDS for contemporary libraries and institutions - Presents an innovative take on information retrieval and digital document management - Grounds thinking on a bibliographic basis, combining academic, practical and commercial aspects - Offers a perspective on how WSDS and discovery tools are seen and used internationally - Provides a version of culture and information literacy of relevance to a broad-range of cultural specialists

Information Resource Description
Information Resource Description

Author: Philip Hider

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Published: 2012-11-23

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1856046672

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An overview of the field of information organization that examines resource description as both a product and process of the contemporary digital environment. This timely book employs the unifying mechanism of the semantic web and the resource description framework to integrate the various traditions and practices of information and knowledge organization. Uniquely, it covers both the domain-specific traditions and practices and the practices of the ‘metadata movement’ through a single lens – that of resource description in the broadest, semantic web sense. This approach more readily accommodates coverage of the new Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, which aims to move library cataloguing into the centre of the semantic web. The work surrounding RDA looks set to revolutionise the field of information organization, and this book will bring both the standard and its model and concepts into focus. Key topics include: • information resource attributes • metadata for information retrieval • metadata sources and quality • economics and management of metadata • knowledge organization systems • the semantic web • books and e-books, websites and audiovisual resources • business and government documents • learning resources • the field of information/knowledge organization. Readership: LIS students taking information organization courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, information professionals wishing to specialise in the metadata area, and existing metadata specialists who wish to update their knowledge.

Libraries for Users
Libraries for Users

Author: Luisa Alvite

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2010-12-10

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1780630514

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This book reviews the quality and evolution of academic library services. It revises service trends offered by academic libraries and the challenge of enhancing traditional ones such as: catalogues, repositories and digital collections, learning resources centres, virtual reference services, information literacy and 2.0 tools. - Studies the role of the university library in the new educational environment of higher education - Rethinks libraries in academic context - Redefines roles for academic libraries