...Nicholas Joint Purpose To examine whether placing URLs into library OPACs has been an effective way of enhancing the role of the catalogue for the contemporary library user. Design/methodology/approach A brief review of the literature combined with an analysis of publicly available statistics...

... and Information Science Text” series © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 --> Digital libraries Classification Catalogues Sheila Intner, Susan Lazinger, and Jean Weihs need to be commended for their efforts in taking on the task of writing a textbook on metadata – the rapid pace...

...W.A. Kelly Compiled by Peter W.   Thomas . Medicine and Science at Exeter Cathedral Library: A Short‐Title Catalogue of Printed Books, 1483‐1900, with a List of 10th to 19th‐Century Manuscripts . Exeter : University of Exeter Press   2003 . xxviii, 323 pp. , ISBN: 0859895742...

...W.A. Kelly The searching for authors from the classical up to the early modern period in the catalogues of large research libraries has been a problem for a long time because of the variety of variant forms of the names themselves and epithets by which they have been known in the manuscript...

... never stated, are considered. The effects on retrospective cataloguing are described and the work of the Archives Sub Committee is considered. The nature of funding of projects for the second phase is discussed and an initial assessment is provided of the overall benefits from the programme...

...Pat Oddy Places present day UK culture and society in a postmodern context and considers their impact on libraries and cataloguing, concentrating specifically on the concepts of globalization and the death of tradition. Moves on to discuss how libraries can continue to provide high quality...

...Mortaza Kokabi The machine‐readable catalogue (MARC) is now more than 20 years old. It has been, and still is, criticized from different points of view. Reviews some of the positive and negative opinions on MARC, as expressed by different sectors of the profession, and studies the future of MARC...

...Michael Gale Describes the development of performance indicators in the bibliographic records section since 1988. The timeliness of the section’s output was perceived to be more relevant from the user’s point of view than the number of books catalogued, so two key indicators were monitored...

...Ian R.M. Mowat Reviews the development of the catalogue in the light of changing needs and changing technology. Current development of the interactive catalogue coincides with an increased need to test user reaction to library services in the academic sector because of the growing emphasis...

...Frances Slack Examines the development of online public access catalogues of the last 15 years and how this has promoted the use of automated information retrieval systems. Investigates how end‐users use the system available to them and the type of subject searches which they carry out. Compares...

...Gwen Averley Reviews the progress of the Nineteenth‐century Short Title Catalogue project and describes the imminent publication of the final two volumes of the second series. Discusses the plans for the third phase of the project. The title index to the A‐Z run (Vols 1‐43) itself...

...Margaret Fieldhouse; Micheline Hancock‐Beaulieu Describes the Okapi projects and Okapi′s development as an experimental online catalogue system over ten years. The first Okapi project in 1984 introduced “best match” retrieval and focused on the user interface design. The second investigated word...

...Lucy A. Tedd Discusses the development of online public access catalogues(OPACs) from their beginnings to recently available systems. Describes research underpinning OPAC design. Considers user requirements and interfaces in more detail and also search software and database design. This article...

...Tirong arap Tanui Outlines the development of international standards for bibliographic control. Considers the relevance and use of these standards in Africa and concludes that more appropriate approaches to cataloguing should be sought for African purposes rather than a slavish adherence...

...Rodney M. Brunt Considers relevance of AACR to on‐line library catalogues. Surveys the history of cataloguing rules in relation to the code′s relevance in the state of librarianship at the time. Stresses the need for a code taking account of the actual and potential benefit of computerized...

...Tirong arap Tanui Reviews the role of libraries and of cataloguing within modern libraries in the light of research findings, automation and other changes. Stresses user needs and subject access. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Automation Catalogues Libraries United Kingdom Library...

...J.E. Rowley The increasing availability of on‐line public access catalogues(OPACs) offers a new mode of access to all types of library and information sources. The changing role of the catalogue merits a reassessment of the role of cataloguing codes. A wholesale revision of AACR is required...