A bibliography, or a list of works, is complied upon a common principle such as authorship, subject, or country of publication (Bopp & Smith, 1991). This assignment will explore a specific bibliography type: library catalogues. Library catalogues are lists of materials held in a library’s collection. Western Libraries catalogue and the University of Toronto Libraries catalogue will be examined in this assignment. The strengths and weakness of each catalogue will be presented and the value of the teen suicide collection will be commented on. To judge the strength and weakness of each catalogue, authority, purpose, scope, and organization will be, as Katz suggests, considered (Katz, 1997). Each catalogue features a high degree of authority and credibility. Both are associated with the respected and prestigious institutions, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto. Via the authority conveyed, the content within each catalogue is assessed to be trustworthy, reliable, and accurate. Each catalogue features easily identifiable and concrete purposes. Both provide student, staff, and faculty of each institution access to the materials of each collection. The catalogues support the academic and research activities of the members of both universities. Broad scope is featured by each catalogue. Through the catalogues, library users have access to the collection of both libraries, and detailed marc information about items in the collection. Organization ranks high in each catalogue. Both feature clean, well designed, and attractive catalogues. Both feature simple search boxes with advanced search options, options to search for articles, databases, journals, and search limiters. Much information is... ... middle of paper ... ... neither catalogue actually evaluates the items in their catalogues. Providing information for someone else to evaluate an item does not make a library catalogue an evaluative tool. Works Cited Bopp, R. E. & Smith, L. C. (1991). Reference and Information Services. Colorado: Libraries Unlimited. Evans, G. E. & Saponaro, M. A. (2005). Developing Library and Information Center Collections, 5th ed. Greenwood Village, CO: Libraries Unlimited. Katz, W. A. (1997). Introduction to Reference Work: Volume 1 Basic Information Services, 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. University of Toronto Libraries. (2012). University of Toronto Libraries. Retrieved from http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/ Western Libraries. (2012). Welcome Western Libraries. Retrieved from http://www.lib.uwo.ca/
While the Dewey decimal system contains a comprehensive index, the Library of Congress Classification system does not (Taylor 430). Each volume of the LCC schedules contains its own index and these indexes do not refer to one another. Finding subjects in the schedules can be awkward. To locate a topic, one must check through each volume index of all the different disciplines that may ...
Who can resist a book with a chapter titled, "Labia Lumps, Chunky Discharge, and Other Things They Never Taught Me in Library School"? Released this past summer, Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out takes no prisoners as its contributors ponder everything from the backtracking of '60s values by ALA's baby boomers to librarian imagery in erotica. This edited volume is a sequel to a 1972 self-published book titled Revolting Librarians. The original is worth checking out for its historical value alone. The editors of the 2003 volume, Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West gathered essays from ten of the original writers from the 1972 book for this version and it is interesting to see what thirty years has done to these radical librarians.
Research in Library Science is conducted in many areas covering multiple questions, but one thing shared is data collection. Qualitative and quantitative information to support the question at hand are necessary to validate the needs or phenomenon or trends (Wildemuth, 2009). Transaction logs and focus groups are two valuable data collection techniques.
Darnton, Robert. "The Library in the New Age." NYBooks.com. The New York Review of Books, June 12, 2008. Web. 6 March 2012.
Papakhian, A. Ralph. “Cataloging.” in Music Librarianship at the Turn of the Century ed. Richard Griscom, 19-28. Music Library Association Technical Reports, No. 27. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2000.
Lee, L. (2006). CATALOGS, CATALOGS, EVERYWHERE. Business Week, Retrieved Friday, January 12, 2007 from the Academic Search Premier database.
...Merriam Webster’s Dictionary. Ed. Merriam Webster, Inc. Eleventh ed. 1 vols. N.p.: LC Cataloging in Publication Data, 2004. Print. Collegiate Dictionary.
A library or information unit must have a dedicated plan on having an organized Collection Development Policy, represents the guideposts of all types of library institutions. Collection development is the process of planning, selecting, acquiring and evaluating the library collections’ convenience to print and electronic collection developments. Thus, it is essential to have a written collection development policy, a statement of general collection building principles with desalinating the purpose and content of a collection in terms of relevance and internal audiences (Clayton and Gorman 2007). Broadly, the international and local libraries have sketched written collection development policies which they are aware of its uses. Recently, the written policies consistently renewed with the rise of digital collections. However, the value of the written collection development plan shakes with the complexity of managing electronic resources, funding and time considerations, criticism on how it written and also its inflexibility. This essay will examine the arguments for having the advantages of the written collection development policy (CDP) and the issues evolve which against the latter.
...of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition (pp. 1507–1517). Taylor & Francis. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1081/E-ELIS3-120043240
[1]- Ralph Stair, George Reynolds and Thomas Chesney. 2012. Fundamentals of Business information systems. 2nd edition: Cengage Learning EMEA.
RUSA’s (Reference and User Services Association, a division of ALA) Standards and Guidelines Committee revised the existing guidelines for Liaison work in 2009. The standards and guidelines help librarians identify users that can help in collection services and issues. They also identify objectives and continuing education opportunities for liaisons. (2010, p. 97)
... to the Library and that have generally been underused resources. B. Greater use of the Library's Capitol Hill facilities by scholars for the kind of interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, multimedia, multilingual, and synthetic writing that is important to Congressional deliberation and national policy-making, but inadequately encouraged both by special interest groups and by advocacy-oriented think tanks; and C. Greater use by the general public through programs that stimulate interest, increase knowledge, and encourage more citizens to use the collections on-site and electronically.”The Library employees will add their position as information guides by “helping more people find appropriate materials in a swelling sea of unsorted information” and directing them to services and resources exclusive to the Library of Congress. This requires not only more growth of employees that the Library has formerly had, but also making it easier in new ways more wide-ranging and “systematic use by researchers of the distinctive materials that only the Library of Congress has.” Courses for the common public, such as displays or publications, must display the importance and value of the collections.
The Bibliographic Chain is a process whereby information proceeds through an individual’s imagination/mind to its final resting place which may be in the format of an encyclopaedia summary [1]. The Bibliographic Chain contains eleven progressive links which consists of: knowledge within human resources; information created by institutions; documents that are currently being worked on; unpublished studies and findings; periodicals; reports and monographs; services (indexing and abstracting); bibliographic lists and essays/reports; yearly reviews and prolific reports, books and encyclopaedic summaries [5].
Just like waking up in the morning and inhaling my first conscious-breath of the day, reading is something essential to me. As I child, I used to dream of having my own and private reading place where I would sit and spend my whole day reading my favorite books without any disturbance. Thanks to my dreams, I now have a wonderful private library in my house. This place is not similar to any other ordinary library but a mini place where you can find a massive number of interesting books of different varieties.
Dilevko, J., & Gottlieb, L. (2002, November). Print sources in an electronic age: A vital part of the research process for undergraduate students. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 28(6), 381. Retrieved July 18, 2006, from the Academic Search Premier database. (AN: 8735647).