...William Denton; Sarah J. Coysh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an academic library's implementation of a discovery layer (VuFind 1.0 RC1) as a next‐generation catalogue, based on usability testing and an online survey. Design/methodology/approach Usability tests...

...Sharon Q. Yang; Melissa A. Hofmann Purpose The study described in this paper aims to identify the progress made in the efforts to model current online public access catalogs (OPACs) after the next generation catalog (NGC) in academic libraries in the USA and Canada. Design/methodology/approach...

...M.P. Satija Digital libraries Cataloguing Catalogues Online catalogues Online cataloguing XML This composite book on both the theory and practice of metadata provides a resource for the teaching and practice of cataloguers. The editor rightly says that cataloguing and metadata...

... with the incorporation of Unicode into library systems and software. This article describes what needs to be in place on personal computers and in the library system in order to take advantage of Unicode as well as providing some guidelines to troubleshoot problems when they occur. Languages Catalogues Libraries...

... to the real‐world adoption of many of these solutions, chief among them the rate of user adoption of these technologies. The ultimate use of PDAs as a target of exporting is not to send metadata such as catalog records or shelf list information, but to send the data itself. PDAs are increasingly used...

.... Incorporated in the NLC’s DL initiatives are projects relating to digitization, collecting Canadian networked electronic publications, development of virtual catalogues, metadata creation, and preservation of digital resources. Issues relating to collaboration, access to digital collections and databases...

...Heather G. Morrison The verbal protocol method is used extensively in computer usability studies. This study was designed to test the feasibility of using the verbal protocol method as a means of conducting field research on the online catalogue. Ten undergraduate students conducted their own...

...Dean Wilder; Rich Greenfield Presents the experiences of the Library of Congress‘s experimental Web based public catalogue which sets out to combine the varied resources of the library through one gateway. Considers how this system attempts to introduce new methods of retrieval rather than...

... as a common user interface. As library planners prepare to shift to a Web‐based online catalog, they face a range of complicated challenges. The coordinated efforts of staff throughout the library organization are required to implement the new paradigm. This article presents the issues that will be confronted...