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Old solutions in a new age: Cataloging and the future of access to government information

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Recommendations are made for ways that the library community, providers of government information, and automation specialists can work together to reexamine bibliographic standards, expand tape loading to non-U.S. depository documents collections, link useful bibliographical databases with library catalogs, and use cataloging of Internet resources to show relationships between physical collections and remotely accessible government information.
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This article is published in Journal of Government Information.The article was published on 1996-05-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cataloging & Resource Description and Access.

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Cataloging Internet Resources: Why, What, How

TL;DR: This paper tries to trace the decade-long history of the library community's efforts in providing an effective way to catalog Internet resources to answer the following questions: Why catalog?
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Government Information Collections and Services in the Social Sciences: The Subject Specialist Integration Model.

TL;DR: The authors argue that academic libraries must focus less on government organization and function and begin to collect government information and offer reference and instruction services within the context of disciplines, which holds greater promise for increasing the use of government information by social sciences researchers.

Использование реляционных СУБД в распределенных системах научно-технической информации на основе протокола Z39.50

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the state-of-the-art work in the field of women's health care, focusing on the following categories: 1.1 LAURIN and 2.2 DNER.
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A New Way to Manage Uncataloged Materials: A Case Study from Moving the University of Nevada, Reno’s Federal Depository Collection

TL;DR: This case study describes how cataloging and government documents staff at the University of Nevada, Reno collaborated to achieve intellectual and physical control over a huge, largely uncataloged government documents collection destined for automatic storage.
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Catalogs, indexes, and full text databases : An integrative approach to accessing government literature

TL;DR: Persistent themes in modern librarianship have included the importance of online catalogs in recording local holdings, the ability of indexes to extend the subject and descriptive analysis of these catalogs, and the desirability of mainstreaming government publications with non-governmental literature.
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Rules for a dictionary catalogue

TL;DR: Volume of cataloging rules created prior to the widespread availability of Library of Congress cataloging describes cataloging of special publications such as manuscripts, music, and maps and atlases.
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Helping the public find information the U.S. Government Information Locator Service (GILS)

TL;DR: GILS will identify and describe public information resources throughout the federal government and provide assistance in obtaining the information and will supplement other agency and commercial information dissemination mechanisms.
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The government printing office cataloging records: Opportunities and problems

TL;DR: The first part of this article describes the GPO cataloging records on theGPO MARC tapes, on OCLC, and in the monthly Catalog, and introduces a costeffective method of using these records in a library catalog.
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