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The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries
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An examination of the overall principles and practices of both reference service and cataloging operations in the promotion of scholarly research points out important differences not just in content available onsite and offsite, but also among necessary search techniques.Abstract:
The paper is an examination of the overall principles and practices of both reference service and cataloging operations in the promotion of scholarly research, pointing out important differences no...read more
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The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing
TL;DR: This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education with a focus on industrial-scale computing.
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User Tags versus Subject Headings: Can User-Supplied Data Improve Subject Access to Library Collections?
TL;DR: A comparison between the LibraryThing tags for a group of books and the library-supplied subject headings for the same books shows that users and catalogers approach these descriptors very differently, and user tags can enhance subject access to library materials, but they cannot entirely replace controlled vocabularies such as the Library of Congress subjectHeadings.
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Thesauri and Facets and Tags, Oh My! A Look at Three Decades in Subject Analysis
TL;DR: A selective review looks at thesauri, guided navigation, and folksonomy as three activity areas in which subject analysis researchers have been attempting to address rapidly changing new environments.
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Trashy tags: problematic tags in LibraryThing
TL;DR: A quantitative analysis of the "messiness" of the social tags in folksonomies to see how useful they might be for general search and retrieval in library catalogs finds more than a third of this messiness is in the form of tag variations followed by tags containing non‐alphabetic characters.
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The Future of Cataloging
TL;DR: This paper explores cataloging in the Age of Google and asks readers to consider if the detailed attention librarians have been paying to descriptive cataloging can still be justified, and if cost-effective means for access should be considered.
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Cataloging Must Change! and indexer consistency studies : Misreading the evidence at our peril
TL;DR: Gregor and Mandel as mentioned in this paper claimed that there is only a "ten to 20 percent" agreement among subject catalogers in assigning LC subject headings, which is based on a serious misreading of previous studies of indexer consistency.