EDITORIAL By Ruth Carter
Time for Change:
A New Approach to Cataloguing Concepts.
By F. H. Ayres
Abstract.
Three factors are likely to force dramatic changes in the libraries of
the future. They are the increase
in electronic publishing, the digitising of conventional library materials, and
the Internet which is creating a second information revolution.
New concepts are need for catalguing functions in the Internet
environment. Cataloguing, now a
pre-coordinate funcation should shift to a post-coordinate activity.
Authority control should become an activity of the searching stage rather
than the cataloguing stage. Union
titles will be needed as one of the linking mechanisms.
The value of ISBD needs to be justified. Issues connected with the internet and search engines are
explored. A scenario for the
Catalogue 2000 is given that includes the cataloguers aims being the inclusion
of library catalogue material that is relevant but not necessarily in the
library.
BOPAC2: a New Concept in OPAC Design and Bibliographic Control.
By F.H.Ayres, L.P.S.Nielsen, M.J.Ridley, Department of Computing University
of Bradford
Abstract. This paper describes a Research Project, funded by the British
Library Research and Innovation Centre, from September 1996 to January 1998 [1].
The Project developed and extensively tested and evaluated a World Wide Web
front end called BOPAC2 that allows access to a number of library catalogues via
Z39.50 either simultaneously or individually. BOPAC2 is designed to make access
to large and complex retrievals simpler. Similar records are clustered together
and retrievals may be sorted in a number of ways and by different criteria. The
design, development and evaluation of the system are described along with
suggestions for future work.
Subject Searching in Online Catalogs Including Spanish
and English Material. By
Filiberto Felipe Martinez Arellano
Abstract. The use of title words, the combination of these through the
use of logic operators, and the possibility of truncating them when carrying out
subject searches, are some of the search options that have been incorporated
into the online catalog. Several
arguments in favor of these options have been expressed which state that they
represent an approach for the use of natural language and that they facilitate
information retrieval. However, expressed arguments against them that support
the necessity of using controlled language to obtain more precision in search
results also exist. This paper
reports the main results from a study whose objective was to compare advantages
and disadvantages of retrieval by keywords from the title and by subject
headings included in the records of LIBRUNAM, an online catalog containing
records for English and Spanish items at the National Autonomous University of
Mexico.
Review and Prospect for Centralized Cataloging in China.
By Jessica
Liu.
Doctoral student of the Department of Library and Information
Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China ( jialiulj@hotmail.com)
Abstract. With
a long history, cataloging has developed gradually in China. Nowadays, both the
content and method of cataloging have changed in many ways. As a type of
organizing cataloging model, centralized cataloging came into being in 1936 in
China. The history and the current status of centralized cataloging in China are
described in the paper. The prospect for cataloging in the country is also
discussed. In respect to resource building and sharing, cooperative cataloging
is thought to be the best way to develop cataloging in the future.
Indexing Form and Genre Terms in a Large
Academic OPAC: the Harvard
Experience. By
Jeffrey Beall
The Art of Classification:
Alternate Classification Systems in Art Libraries.
By
Roberto C. Ferrari
BOOK REVIEWS. By
Michael Carpenter, Reviews
Editor
Book
Review Editor’s Notes
Materials Received
International Conference
on the Principles and Future Development of AACR (1997 : Toronto, Ontario,
Canada). The Principles and Future of AACR : Proceedings of the International
conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR, Jean Weihs,
editor.
Reviewed by J. McRee Elrod
