Enhancing bibliographic records in academic library catalogs: An empirical study

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuheng Wu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Library Catalogs

Managing Vendor Records for Monographic E-Collections at a Medium-Sized Academic Library

2014 ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Aiping Chen-Gaffey
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Record Management ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Library Catalog ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Management Policies

The rapid growth of electronic resources continues to challenge traditional methods of cataloging library collections, forcing a cataloging department to reevaluate its policies and procedures and implement changes. This chapter presents a case study of integrating vendor-supplied bibliographic records into a library catalog in order to provide timely and accurate catalog access to the library digital collections. The chapter discusses the benefits, issues, and challenges of batch manipulating and loading large record sets for these e-resources supplied by their vendors. It also describes the strategies and tools the bibliographic services staff has employed to solve the identified problems and improve the process. Further, it examines the effectiveness of the current e-record management policies and procedures. The chapter concludes with recommendation of solutions and a quest for future best practices in managing vendor-supplied records for e-resources.

scholarly journals Reexamining Content-Enriched Access: Its Effect on Usage and Discovery

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 412-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuji Tosaka ◽  
Cathy Weng
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Keyword Search ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Library System ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Library Users ◽  
System Data ◽  
Search Option

Content-enriched metadata in bibliographic records is considered helpful to library users in identifying and selecting library materials for their needs. The paper presents a study, using circulation data from a medium-sized academic library, of the effect of content-enriched records on library materials usage. The study also examines OPAC search transactions of circulated items to learn how enriched metadata is used. The findings show that enhanced records were overall associated with higher circulation rates and that keyword search was the most frequently used search option directly associated with circulation. Contents data can play a key role in discovery. Libraries should continue to provide and exploit content-enriched metadata. The combination of optimal library system data mining capability, postsearching evaluation, and OPAC display are crucial to achieve content-enriched access.

scholarly journals The Best Cataloger is a Frustrated Library User: Cataloging Failure and the Underutilization of Library Resources

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
John W. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Call Number ◽  
Library User ◽  
Library Catalogs

This essay points out that inconsistencies in the assignment of subject headings and call number can lead to failure to retrieve relevant materials from our libraries. Today it is frequently asserted that bibliographic records cataloged by the Library of Congress or other approved libraries will not require review or editing in our local libraries. This paper provides clear, but by no means unique examples of “cataloging failure” and explains the implications of a policy to add unedited bibliographic records (from vendors such as OCLC) to our library catalogs. The result is the omission of otherwise relevant titles from fairly routine searches.

Cataloging and Metadata Issues for Electronic Resources

2011 ◽  
pp. 78-94
Author(s):  
Susan Jane Heron ◽  
Charles L. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
Bibliographic Records ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Principles And Standards

The environment in which cataloging principles and standards operate has changed dramatically. The development of automated systems for the creation and processing of bibliographic data, the growth of large-scale shared cataloging programs, and emerging technologies have created new opportunities to provide access to national and international academic library collections. However, economic pressures have also prompted libraries to try to simplify the cataloging process, using “minimal level” cataloging records in order to keep pace with the continued growth of publishing. Cataloging librarians have identified two significant needs: 1) to adapt existing [cataloging] codes and practices to accommodate change resulting from new forms of electronic publishing and the advent of networked access to information resources, and 2) to respond more effectively to an increasingly broad range of user expectations and needs. München (1998) wonders how catalogers will guarantee the quality and relevance of bibliographic access within the exploding world of online materials. If so, what kind of bibliographic records will be required to meet the different uses and user needs? Finally, how should these bibliographic data be organized and structured for intellectual and physical access to the documents? This chapter will provide an overview of current cataloging principles, issues in handling evolving formats, and challenges for academic catalogs. It will include a brief examination of a model created by a large multi-campus urban university in determining best practice in the creation of records for shared, online academic environments. Finally, the chapter will look at the development of alternative frameworks for describing online resources.

scholarly journals Serving Higher Education’s Highest Goals: Assessment of the Academic Library as Place

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 428-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Lea Jackson ◽  
Trudi Bellardo Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Psychology Of Religion ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Library As Place

An empirical study was conducted using methods borrowed from the psychology of religion (instead of corporate assessment techniques) to assess whether the academic library as place supports students’ desire to feel connected to higher education’s mission. The findings from an in-person survey of fifty-four students at three universities showed a preference for exterior and interior images of traditional libraries over those classed as modern, and those images evoked feelings of scholarship, engagement, spirituality, and other positive emotions, as well as subjects’ desire to use those spaces more than they currently use their existing library.

scholarly journals Are the Global Cosmetic Surgery Legal Issues Bypassing Lithuania?

Teisė ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. 66-88
Author(s):  
Justyna Levon ◽  
Dovilė Valančienė
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Legal Issues

The article deals with an empirical study of certain legal issues of cosmetic surgery and their manifestations in legal articles abroad and in Lithuania. It examines whether the cosmetic surgery-related legal issues analysed in the authoritative databases Scopus and Clarivate analytics and the articles found therein resemble the cosmetic surgery-related legal issues analysed in authoritative Lithuanian legal journals and the Lithuanian Digital Academic Library database (eLABa) articles.

Individuals without jobs: An empirical study of job-seeking behavior and reemployment.

1996 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connie R. Wanberg ◽  
John D. Watt ◽  
Deborah J. Rumsey
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Seeking Behavior
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