Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 1996

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 1996

LITA = Library and Information Technology Advocacy
September 1, 1996... Although the A in LITA officially stands for association, I have been thinking of the advocacy roles of LITA and its members since participating in the orientation and training for LISAN last December. LISAN, as I hope most of you are aware by...

Improving Personal-Name Searching in Online Catalogs
September 1, 1996... A sizable proportion of the queries users submit to online catalogs bear personal names. In fact, names figure into the most frequently used search types--author searches and subject searches. Despite findings of online catalog use studies that...

Training for Automated Systems in Libraries
September 1, 1996... In a series of interviews, the automation administrators of forty-nine libraries that had recently installed automated systems discussed staff and user training for their new systems. The interviews focused on training objectives and procedures,...

OPAC Missing Record Retrieval
September 1, 1996... A study was conducted to determine whether a single library's cataloging records known to be missing from a consortium OPAC database could be identified by using the database search features. Attempts to create lists of bibliographic records held...

The Many Faces of a Catalog Record: A Snapshot of Bibliographic Display Practices for Monographs in Online Catalogs
September 1, 1996... Full-level displays in thirty-six North American online catalogs of bibliographic records for five monographs were analyzed and compared for both layout and content with the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) and traditional...