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Cataloging
About: Cataloging is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4770 publications have been published within this topic receiving 32489 citations.
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TL;DR: Issues surrounding name and subject access across languages and cultures, particularly mechanisms and knowledge organization tools (e.g., cataloging, metadata) for cross-lingual information access are considered.
Abstract: This paper considers issues surrounding name and subject access across languages and cultures, particularly mechanisms and knowledge organization tools (e.g., cataloging, metadata) for cross-lingual information access. The author examines current mechanisms for cross-lingual name and subject access and identifies major factors that hinder cross-lingual information access. The author provides examples from the Korean language that demonstrate the problems with cross-language name and subject access.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a philosophical framework for library priorities and cataloging policy, the contexts in which they are made, and the consequences they have for users, invoking the notion of utility as a philosophical backdrop for dealing with competing library choices and the fallout from those prioritizations.
Abstract: This paper seeks to provide a philosophical framework for choices made about library priorities and cataloging policy, the contexts in which they are made, and the consequences they have for users. The authors invoke the notion of utility as a philosophical backdrop for dealing with competing library choices and the fallout from those prioritizations. They then look at how general utilitarian principles can contextualize the layers of wants, needs, and resource allocations in the research library environment. Finally, they examine issues and recent developments at the Cornell University Library as a case study with which to illustrate some of these principles.
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TL;DR: In this article, a planning process on an authority control project at a medium-sized university library is described. But the planning process is not presented in detail, and the authors do not provide a cost analysis of the project.
Abstract: Authority control is a vital part of providing students and faculty with adequate access to collections in university libraries. Although many large research libraries routinely maintain authority control, small and medium-sized university libraries find it challenging to meet rising user expectations and provide adequate access in an online environment through appropriate authority work. The smaller libraries have to provide persuasive data to demonstrate to their library administrations that tight staffing situations make it difficult to perform in-house maintenance on authority work and keep up with the dynamic and constant changes of new headings for bibliographic records. This article offers a planning process on an authority control project at a medium-sized university library.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the need for experienced technical services librarians increases rather than decreases in a library that outsources some of its technical service operations, and they describe the quality control programs developed for monitoring a no-return approval plan and vendor-supplied cataloging.
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TL;DR: OCLC's Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) brings collaboration of the type long practiced by libraries to the description of Internet resources to allow sharing of information within and among institutions around the world.
Abstract: SUMMARY OCLC's Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (CORC) brings collaboration of the type long practiced by libraries to the description of Internet resources Begun as a research project in 1998, it is now being developed inio a full OCLC service CORC users share a centralized database of resource descriptions accessed and edited through Web browsers Collaboration within the project occurs on a number of levels to allow sharing of information within and among institutions around the world By working closely with an enthusiastic group of interested libraries and librarians, we have concentrated on rapid interactive development while actually running a prototype service Specific features that facilitate collaboration in CORC include Unicode support, strong support for the entry and linking of authority records, and support of multiple metadata formats CORC is closely integrated with existing MARC21 systems, such as OCLC's WorldCat, while also supporting newer metadata formats, such as Dublin Core Th
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