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TL;DR: The World Wide Web site for cataloging and classification journals (CCQ) as discussed by the authors was created to address a serious need-timeli-ness in communicating the results of research among librarians, while at the same time providing a number of new benefits to enhance the journal's relationship to its readers.
Abstract: The World Wide Web site tor Cataloging & Classification Quarterly(CCQ) was created to address a serious need-timeli-ness-in communicating the results of research among librarians, while at the same time providing a number of new benefits to enhance the journal's relationship to its readers. Brought online in early 1995, it was the first such Web site for a professional journal in librarianship, and its characteristic method of making abstracts available well in advance of the print version anticipated a practice later employed by journals in a variety of other fields. Historical background to electronic texts is discussed in context with the beginnings of the CCQ Web page, along with providing an orientation to the relevant aspects of the still-evolving World Wide Web. By using the CCQ Web page as an example, an attempt to characterize the current state of electronic journal publishing will be outlined. With the decision early this year by CCQ's publisher, The Haworth Press, Inc., to begin a pilo...
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TL;DR: American and British experiences are contrasted with recent developments in central and eastern Europe, raising issues of how to support expansion into regions with different traditions of library service and practices, different technical standards, different political, economic, and cultural circumstances, and a lower installed base of information technology.
Abstract: Over a period of thirty years, goals for library automation have shifted from an emphasis on local concerns to an emphasis on global concerns. These goals evolved through three incremental phases--efficiency of internal operations, access to local resources, and access to resources outside the library--before reaching the present stage of addressing interoperability among systems and services. The challenge facing libraries today is how to act locally--to implement systems that ensure internal efficiencies and high levels of service to the community--while thinking globally, assuring that local systems are able to exchange data with other systems located around the world. Each of these phases in the history of American and British library automation is discussed. American and British experiences are contrasted with recent developments in central and eastern Europe, raising issues of how to support expansion into regions with different traditions of library service and practices, different technical standa...
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12 Jun 2006
TL;DR: This cutting-edge reference offers practical resources for cataloging and flexibility to meet the needs of a wide range of institutions - from libraries to museums to archives to visual collections.
Abstract: For the first time, under the leadership of the Visual Resources Association, a cross section of five visual and cultural heritage experts, along with scores of reviewers from varied institutions, have created a new data content standard focused on cultural materials. This cutting-edge reference offers practical resources for cataloging and flexibility to meet the needs of a wide range of institutions - from libraries to museums to archives to visual collections. Consistently following these guidelines for selecting, ordering, and formatting data used to populate metadata elements in cultural materials' catalog records: promotes good descriptive cataloging and reduces redundancy; builds a foundation of shared documentation; creates data sharing opportunities; and, complements existing standards (AACR).
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: With more than 10 million volumes and an annual increase of about 50,000, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France is one of the biggest libraries in the world.
Abstract: With more than 10 million volumes and an annual increase of about 50,000, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France is one of the biggest libraries in the world. It is also one of the oldest and since the sixteenth century, it has been entrusted with the mission of collecting, cataloging, preserving, and providing access to the French print heritage. Although the library's history consists of several turning points, the last decade of the twentieth century has brought an unprecedented change in the life of the institution: new information technologies, new buildings, new collection management politics, and new services. More than ever, today the library is part of a national and international network of libraries and other cultural institutions whose goal is both to share the wealth of their resources and assert their identities
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