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Cataloging & Classification Quarterly |
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Volume 32, no. 3, 2001 |
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
CCQ
Interview
An
Interview with Barbara B. Tillett
by
Martin Kurth
Abstract:
Barbara B. Tillett discusses her career, including her roles as Director,
Integrated Library System Program Office, and Chief, Cataloging Policy and
Support Office, at the Library of Congress, and her work as a researcher in the
area of bibliographic relationships. Topics
include the following: current ILS functionality, benefits, and losses; LC's
activities in digital futures planning; development of the Functional
Requirements for Bibliographic Records; her role in the Joint Steering Committee
for Revision of AACR, her part in writing proposals and responses to proposals
sent to JSC, and JSC initiatives of the past few years; her work in IFLA and
other international organizations and projects; the possible development of a
connection between existing international authority files; and other aspects of
the emerging internationalization in library catalogs.
Keywords:
Barbara Tillett, Library of Congress, ILS, digital library planning, FRBR,
authority files, internationalization in library catalogs
ERC
-Electronic Resources for Catalogers: Listservs and Listprocs for Catalogers
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Consequences
of Applying Cataloguing Codes for Author Entries to the
by
R. Ruiz-Perez
Abstract:
In this empirical study of a sample of catalog records I investigate the
implications for information retrieval of the rules for choosing author access
points in online catalogs. Aims: To obtain data that can be used to inform a
revision of current cataloguing rules, and to propose more functional criteria
aimed at improving the retrieval of information located on the basis of author
names. Material and methods: A total of 838 records from the Biblioteca Nacional
Española (Spanish National Library) were examined to analyze the use of
authorities as access points. Authors were classified as creative or
non-creative to facilitate the analysis. The variables investigated were author
source location, potential author access points, actual entries used in the
record, and loss of potential entry points. Results: A total of 3566 potential
author access points were identified (mean of 4.25 per record). The title page
yielded 57.3% of all potential access points, the table of contents yielded
33.5%, and other sources accounted for the remaining 9.1%. A total of 2125
potential authors were not used as access points in the records (overall loss of
59.5%). A total of 960 authors named on the title page were not used as entries
(30.23% loss). In works with up to 3 author per responsibility function, 24.8%
of the authors were not used as entry points. In works with more than 3 authors,
75.2% of the potential access points were unused. Discussion and conclusions: A
significant proportion of potential access points from the table of contents and
the title page went unused. If the access points from these sources were used,
author indexes would be more complete and accurate, and retrieval with online
catalogs would be more efficient. I suggest that losses for creative authors
were caused by neglect of the table of contents as a source of entries, strict
application of the rule of three, and other specific factors. Losses for
non-creative authors were caused by ambiguities and gaps in current cataloguing
rules for choosing added author entries. The findings support the urgent need to
revise cataloguing rules for author access points to make them more flexible,
more practical, and more in line with actual responsibility functions and types
of authorship.
Between
myth and oblivion: a biography of Ákos Domanovszky
by
Mauro Guerrini
Abstract:
The life and career of Ákos Domanovszky, Hungarian librarian and scholar
of library science, is almost unknown even in his own country, apart from an
inner circle of scholars who consider his studies on library catalogue functions
an essential contribution to cataloguing theory. He was a major participant in
the ICCP (Paris, 1961) and the IMCE (Copenhagen, 1969); and the author of the
Hungarian draft cataloguing code, adopted as a national standard in 1972. He
published several important essays in national and international journals such
as Libri, but his crowning achievment as a scholar was Functions and objects of
author and title cataloguing (1974), which is discussed and analysed in this
paper.
A
Tribute to Arlene Taylor
by
Toni Carbo, Susan Hayes
Publishers'
Errors Make Catalogers [sic]: An Analysis of the Error Indicators [sic]
and [i.e.] in Cataloging
by
Jeffrey Beall
Abstract:
In bibliographic records, catalogers use the error indicators [sic] or
[i.e.] with a correction to indicate that a preexisting error was noted on
the item being cataloged that did not occur during the cataloging process.
This article analyzes this practice and provides examples of the recent
use of the error indicators. The
article also suggests how the use of the error indicators in bibliographic
records might be improved and describes aspects of their use that merit further
study. Keywords: Cataloging, errors,
inaccuracies, misspellings, transcription, sic, i.e.
Word
Division in the Transcription of Chinese Script in the Title Fields of
Bibliographic Records
by
Clément Arsenault
Abstract:
Recently, the Library of Congress adopted the pinyin Romanization system for
transcribing Chinese data in its bibliographic records. In its canonical form,
pinyin aggregates Chinese "words" into single linguistic units, but
pinyin entries could be constructed following either a monosyllabic, or a
polysyllabic pattern. Although the former is easier and less costly to
implement, the latter method is potentially more beneficial for end-users, as it
reduces ambiguity, and generates a much larger variety of indexable terms. The
current study investigates if following the polysyllabic method improves
retrieval efficiency and effectiveness in item-specific searching within online
bibliographic databases. Analysis of the results revealed that aggregation of
monosyllables does improve efficiency significantly (p < .05), especially
during keyword searches, while effectiveness remains mainly unaffected.
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