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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: A body of cataloguing practice has coalesced around cataloguing cultural objects: a Guide to Describing CulturalWorks and Their Images (CCO) since its publication in 2003 as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: A body of cataloguing practice has coalesced around Cataloguing Cultural Objects: a Guide to Describing CulturalWorks and Their Images (CCO) since its publication in 2003. CCO is amanual for describing, documenting, and cataloguing cultural works and their visual surrogates.The primary focus ofCCOis art and architecture, including but not limited to paintings, sculpture, prints,manuscripts, photographs, built works, installations, and other visual media.CCOalso covers many other types of cultural works, including archaeological sites, artifacts, and functional objects from the realm of material culture. This paper examines the influence of CCO and its implementation in cataloguing settings for the museum and image library community. In drawing together three diverse scenarios, the authors have identified common strategies for particular challenges in each one. The showcase projects include: (1) the development of a de facto standard for contributing cultural and natural history collections to union catalogues and digital repositories by harmonizing the CDWA Lite and museumdat XML schemas; (2) the use of CCO in the Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive (SAHARA) project, a shared online archive of photographs that document architecture and cultural landscapes worldwide � the SAHARA project developed a cataloguing template for use by scholars and librarians; and (3) the application of CCO alongside other guidelines in records for cultural works in library settings. Emerging CCO cataloguing practice has resulted in a significant body of records from the museum and image library communities headed for LAM (library/ archive/museum) integrated access environments. The authors comment on how cataloguing decision-making (e.g. differing concepts about a �work�) may impact the convergence of records in these environments.

16 citations

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01 Dec 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of a large academic library's ILL requests shows that in most cases the cataloging of bibliographic records is correct, but patrons need instruction in bibliographical searches and ILL policies and procedures.
Abstract: Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is intended to supplement a library's collection, but often patrons submit requests for items already owned. An analysis of a large academic library's ILL requests shows that in most cases the cataloging of bibliographic records is correct, but patrons need instruction in bibliographic searches and ILL policies and procedures. An unexpected result of the study was a realization that patrons are confused by the way items are shelved in the various branches.

16 citations

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Jeffrey Beall1
TL;DR: The addition of low-quality vendor records to the bibliographic utilities (OCLC and RLIN) has had a significant impact on cataloging and access in academic libraries, and more upgrading of lower-quality records is now necessary.
Abstract: The addition of low-quality vendor records to the bibliographic utilities (OCLC and RLIN) has had a significant impact on cataloging and access in academic libraries. Vendor records are brief, non-standard bibliographic records created by booksellers and loaded into the utilities. Because many libraries are choosing to copy these records from the utilities to their local online catalogs without editing or enhancing them, much effort is being duplicated, as individual libraries make the same enhancements locally. Less original cataloging is being conducted in the languages represented by the vendor records, and more upgrading of lower-quality records is now necessary, a change that has affected cataloging workflows, and ultimately access, in academic libraries. Quantitative research is needed on the impact of vendor records.

16 citations

01 Aug 1999
TL;DR: The IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) guidelines for librarians charged with customizing OPAC (online public access catalog) software and vendors and producers of this software are described.
Abstract: This paper describes the IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) guidelines for librarians charged with customizing OPAC (online public access catalog) software and vendors and producers of this software The guidelines are intended to apply to all types of catalog, including World Wide Web-based catalogs, GUI (graphical user interface)-based interfaces, and Z3950-Web interfaces The focus is on the display of cataloging information (as opposed to circulation, serials check-in, fund accounting, acquisitions, or bindery information) The intent is to recommend a standard set of display defaults, defined as features that should be provided for users who have not selected other options, including users who want to begin searching without much instruction The guidelines are divided into principles (general statements of the goals of the guidelines) and recommendations The recommendations are organized based on the four main types of searches that users conduct in library catalogs: (1) for the works of a particular author or other creator; (2) for a particular work; (3) for works on a particular subject or in a particular form or genre; and (4) for works that take a particular disciplinary approach Several controversies related to OPAC displays are also addressed (MES) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document Guidelines for OPAC displays 65tnference Programme and Proceedings http://wwwiflaorg/IV/ifla65/papers/098-131ehtm

16 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202335
2022147
202128
202050
201969
201877