Information Technology and Libraries articles from September 1998

Information Technology and Libraries archives from September 1998

Measuring the performance of a merging algorithm: mismatches, missed-matches, and overlap in Israel's Union List. (Union List of Monographs)
September 1, 1998... In November 1996 a survey was conducted to measure the performance of the merging algorithm used to generate the now defunct ALEPH ULM ("Union List of Monographs") file. Results showed that although the algorithm created almost no mismatches that...

Bibliographic displays in OPACs and Web categories: how well do they comply with display guidelines? (online public access catalogs for academic libraries)(includes references, notes and appendices)
September 1, 1998... This paper combines findings from two assessments of full bibliographic displays in catalogs of academic libraries. The first assessment evaluated displays in twelve OPACs; the second evaluated displays in ten Web catalogs. Displays were...

Beyond migration: preserving electronic documents with digital tablets.(includes references and notes)
September 1, 1998... There are many advantages to electronic documents, but there are corresponding disadvantages, including the preservation issues of obsolescence and the fragile nature of the storage media. The current primary preservation strategy is migration,...

Web indexing with meta fields: a survey of Web objects in polymer chemistry. (searching for online network information on chemistry through search engines AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, Webcrawler and examining the use of metadata in HTML in 1,037 Web objects)(includes bibliography)
September 1, 1998... Four Web search engines--Alta Vista, Lycos, Excite, and Webcrawler--were used to collect data on Web objects in polymer chemistry. One thousand thirty-seven Web objects were examined for data in four categories: document information, use of meta...

Guidelines for collecting aggregations of Web resources.(includes references and notes)
September 1, 1998... The best aggregations of Web resources combine authoritative information, effective retrieval mechanisms, and dependability of access. The worst can be incomplete, inaccurate, and difficult to use. Libraries can expand their Web holdings and...

Enrichment of bibliographic records on online catalogs through OCR and SGML technology.(includes bibliography of cited works)
September 1, 1998... This article presents the results of research on the feasibility of using scanner technology to capture contents pages of collective monographs, and to extract the bibliographic information of each individual work and process this with a...

How to succeed in promoting your Web site: the impact of search engine registration on retrieval of a World Wide Web site.(includes bibliography)
September 1, 1998... This article examines the indexing and retrieval rates of five search tools on the World Wide Web. Character strings were planted in the Project Whistlestop Web site. Daily searches for the strings were performed for six weeks using Lycos,...

All-Out Internet Access: The Cambridge Public Library Model.
September 1, 1998... All-out Internet Access: The Cambridge Public Library Model by Miles R. Fidelman. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1997. 105p. paper, $28 (ISBN 0-8389-0687-7). This work is a concise guide on how to plan, implement, operate, and...

Reference Sources on the Internet: Off the Shelf and Onto the Web.
September 1, 1998... Reference Sources on the Internet: Off the Shelf and Onto the Web Ed. Karen R. Diaz. New York and London: Haworth Press, 1997. 266p. (ISBN 0-7890-0358-9). The Internet sources provided in this work are divided into three major sections. In...