Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 1996

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 1996

LITA = library and information technology advocacy.(Editorial)
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.(includes interview schedule for participating librarians)
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. (on-line public access catalogues)
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.(includes appendix of individual library data)
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...