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Mongolian Libraries Assessment: A Collaboration Between Western Washington University And The American Center For Mongolian Studies, J. Gabe Gossett, Jenny K. Oleen
Mongolian Libraries Assessment: A Collaboration Between Western Washington University And The American Center For Mongolian Studies, J. Gabe Gossett, Jenny K. Oleen
Western Libraries Departmental, Committee, and Working Group Documents
In November, 2015, Western Washington University (WWU) librarians Jenny Oleen and Gabe Gossett, the authors of this report, were invited to visit Ulaanbaatar in order to do a preliminary assessment of library services in the area and participate in a conference. The assessment was supported by the American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) and WWU with the purpose of identifying ways in which there could be improved collaboration and development between Mongolian libraries, ACMS, and WWU (Western Libraries in particular). The librarians made numerous site visits over a two week period in Ulaanbaatar and the surrounding area to gather information …
Name Disambiguation – Learning From More User-Friendly Models, Bob Thomas
Name Disambiguation – Learning From More User-Friendly Models, Bob Thomas
Bob Thomas
Library catalogs do not provide catalog users with the assistance they need to easily and confidently select the person they are interested in. Examples are provided of Web services that do a better job of helping information seekers differentiate the person they are seeking from those with similar names. Some of the reasons for this failure in library catalogs are examined. This article then looks at how much information is necessary to help users disambiguate names, how that information could be captured and shared, and some ways the information could be displayed in library catalogs.
Name Disambiguation – Learning From More User-Friendly Models, Bob Thomas
Name Disambiguation – Learning From More User-Friendly Models, Bob Thomas
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Library catalogs do not provide catalog users with the assistance they need to easily and confidently select the person they are interested in. Examples are provided of Web services that do a better job of helping information seekers differentiate the person they are seeking from those with similar names. Some of the reasons for this failure in library catalogs are examined. This article then looks at how much information is necessary to help users disambiguate names, how that information could be captured and shared, and some ways the information could be displayed in library catalogs.