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Report Of The Alcts Creative Ideas In Technical Services Interest Group Meeting, American Library Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 2014., Lynnette Fields Jun 2015

Report Of The Alcts Creative Ideas In Technical Services Interest Group Meeting, American Library Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 2014., Lynnette Fields

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This report from the 2014 American Library Association Annual Meeting, highlights table discussions from seventy-one librarians and LIS graduate students attending the ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services meeting.


Report Of The Alcts Creative Ideas In Technical Services Interest Group Meeting. American Library Assication Mid-Winter Meeting, Philadelphia 2014., Lynnette Fields Sep 2014

Report Of The Alcts Creative Ideas In Technical Services Interest Group Meeting. American Library Assication Mid-Winter Meeting, Philadelphia 2014., Lynnette Fields

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This report from the 2014 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, highlights table discussions from forty-eight librarians and LIS graduate students attending the ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services meeting.


The Ship Has Sailed And We Aren’T On It : How Catalogers Could Support User Tasks And Why We Won’T, Mary Z. Rose Jan 2012

The Ship Has Sailed And We Aren’T On It : How Catalogers Could Support User Tasks And Why We Won’T, Mary Z. Rose

Library and Information Services Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

The author recommends ways cataloging practices can be revised to better support user tasks based on current catalog interface features. The article begins by describing the possible characteristics of a catalog interface built to leverage a future FRBR bibliographic framework, and discussing the viability of a FRBR-ized catalog interface. The author then examines current trends in interface design, which leverage conventional cataloging data structures. This survey of the literature is followed by recommendations for adapting cataloging practices to enhance the efficacy of current interface designs. The author concludes by proposing that catalogers have a choice to make about the direction …


Consortial Cataloging Guidelines For Electronic Resources: I-Share Survey And Recommendations, Kristin E. Martin, Judith Dzierba, Lynnette Fields, Sandy K. Roe Jul 2011

Consortial Cataloging Guidelines For Electronic Resources: I-Share Survey And Recommendations, Kristin E. Martin, Judith Dzierba, Lynnette Fields, Sandy K. Roe

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

In 2009, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) charged a task force to update and revise recommendations that address cataloging practice and catalog access to electronic resources for libraries participating in the I-Share union catalog. This article presents the results of a survey and recommendations developed by the 2009 Task Force that cover all types of e-resources. Issues covered include: single or separate records for electronic and print versions of a title; the use of aggregator-neutral and provider neutral records,; the construction and placement of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and notes; and the use of …