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Agenda for Online Catalog Designers

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Pubblicato in:Information Technology and Libraries vol. 11, no. 2 (Jun 1992), p. 157-163
Autore principale: Buckland, Michael K
Pubblicazione:
American Library Association
Soggetti:
United States > US
Searches
Online
Libraries
Improvements
Classification
Catalogs
Working conditions
On-line systems
Selective dissemination of information
Subdivisions
Attitudes
Bibliographic literature
Automation
Work stations
Software
AACR
Subject heading schemes
19th century
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library catalogs
Library users
Remote searching
Dewey Decimal Classification
Work environment
Information dissemination
Internet
Subject headings
Dissemination
Library Services
Online Catalogs
Telecommunications
Library Development
Library Automation
Academic Achievement
Electronic Mail
Bibliographies
Information Services
Indexing
Online Searching
Information Retrieval
Word Processing
Laptop Computers
Workstations
Online Systems
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Abstract:Recommendations are presented for the improvement of online catalogs within the categories of closer connections to the users' work environment, Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI), downloading, reform of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), enhanced search capabilities, and linking with other bibliographies and text. Library automation, until now based on factors internal to the library, should be associated with and paced by the parallel shift in the task environment of the people that the library serves. The widespread and prolonged failure to provide users with software that retains the formatting of downloaded records reflects poorly on attitudes toward library users. Online use of LCSH could be greatly simplified if the existing provision for subdivisions were developed and systematized as a verbal faceted classification. Current unpublished research analyzing transaction logs reveals unexpectedly low levels of effectiveness in the use of the MELVYL system and probably online catalogs in general.
ISSN:0730-9295
0022-2240
Fonte:ABI/INFORM Global