Using the MicroMARC:amc Program

Databases are replacing card catalogs and printed indexes, and although libraries and publishers have had access to the same technology, automation has proceeded at different rates and in different directions. The online catalog, produced by member libraries, differs from the bibliographic databases, published by indexing and abstracting services, in production, design, subject access, and search language. Both serve their primary purposes, but the online catalog cannot remain a "librarian's database" and must break with the traditions of the card catalog for the sake of technology and the library user.

Online finding aids, internet search tools, and increased access to the World Wide Web have greatly changed how patrons find archival collections. Through analyzing eighteen months of access data collected via web analytics tools, this article examines how patrons discover archival materials. Contrasts are drawn between access from library catalogs and from online search engines, with the latter outweighing the former by an overwhelming margin, and argues whether archival description practices should change accordingly. The past decade brought a revolution in intellectual access to archival collections through the emergence of the online finding aid. These tools, created in a multiplicity of formats (EAD, HTML, PDF, and others), have made it possible for researchers anywhere to use an Internet connection to find materials in archives. Since archivists first introduced this genre of digital documents to support unmediated discovery, they have been accompanied by questions about their use and usability. Tools exist to measure access counts and the pathways followed to these finding aids, but to date very little has been published to show whether these tools are being used for this purpose, or what the results are if they are being used. This article will examine the experience of one repository, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) at the Washington State University Libraries, in collecting and analyzing data about the use of online finding aids. By 2008, MASC had well over eight hundred HTML finding aids online but no real numeric data 1 O'English: Applying Web Analytics to Online Finding Aids Published by DigitalCommons@USU, 2011 either on how often they were being accessed or on how they were found. In an effort to gather this data, MASC staff placed code from Google Analytics, a statisticsgathering Web service, on each finding aid webpage, as well as on other local gateway and digital collections pages. The intent was to explore the paths patrons follow to finding aids with the hope of improving access, as well as gaining patron-derived information that would help establish priorities for processing collections from the repository backlog and to determine which processed collections might benefit from further attention. The results of the statistical analysis provide useful data on where and how MASC users access our finding aids. Prior to the age of digital finding aids, their paper predecessors were found through various methods, which were generally predictable and well-defined, including online and analog library catalogs, published listings, and mediation by archives staff in person or by telephone. As the digital age emerged, many archives channeled substantial resources into major conversion projects, digitizing finding aids and often creating access to them through existing or new MARC records in online library catalogs. Digital search tools have become increasingly powerful and widespread, and social media have emerged as another path to online finding aids. Archivists with quantitative and qualitative data about the use of online finding aids can make better-informed decisions about the most effective ways to support discovery. The findings in this study suggest that it may again be time to change focus, shifting resources away from catalogs and toward the finding aids themselves.

In 1994, the University of Michigan entered into partnership with UMI and HW Wilson to provide access to full-text imaged articles from approximately 600 journals, linking them with the Wilson indexes in the Library's online catalog, MIRLYN. The project has implemented distributed printing, online charging capabilities, and the development of matching algorithms to map images from one vendor to journal index citations from another. This presentation will cover the current status of the project, lessons learned, and future directions.

Summary The Committee on Inter-institutional Cooperation (CIC) is an academic consortium of thirteen large research institutions in the midwest with its own regional network, CICNet. The CIC libraries and CICNet are building a managed electronic journal collection out of the content and collection experience of the CICNet E_Serials Archive-a collection of over 800 freely distributed electronic serials. The libraries have developed and endorsed a broad collecting policy for the new collection, the CIC Libraries Electronic Journal Collection (CIC EJC). CIC Librarians are selecting a complete, authoritative and permanent collection of electronic journals to be shared by the CIC libraries. The collection will be actively managed, cataloged and maintained by CIC libraries and CICNet staff. Some titles from the E-Serials Archive are being selected for the EJC, and many new journals are being included as well. Cataiogers from six CIC institutions are creating bibliographic records for each selected title. The records will be entered into OCLC and made available to each CIC library's online catalog. This paper focuses on the specific problems encountered in creating the managed collection: locating all issues of each title, cataloging the collection, providing access and managing the collection as a long-term cooperative resource for all the CIC-libraries, and making it accessible to the scholarly research community at large.

The workshop leaders presented an overview of the methods of providing access to electronic journals through a library's online catalog. They briefly explained the concepts and any advantages or disadvantages to each method. The methods discussed were direct linking, intermediate page, using CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Catalog), and an experimental XML (extensible markup language) catalog.

This article describes the process of transforming the Arkansas Periodical Index, which began as a card file index in the University of Arkansas (U. of A.) Libraries, to an online database. As in many other states, in-house indexes were compiled to cover local history journals and subject-related magazines. A variety of software now exists to mount locally created databases, one option being the choice to use the same turnkey software that runs the library's online catalog. We began by converting our card files to a local Inmagic DB/Textworks database. The U. of A. received the 1991 Gale Research Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library Services for that design. We later mapped the database structure to MARC fields and mounted it as a Web-accessible database through our library OPAC vendor, Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (III). The authors begin with a brief history of periodical indexing, the reasons for choosing MARC formatting, and the field mapping required. The article explains the development of the database to include other publication formats, such as material from biographical compendiums, newspaper indexing, and university publications. The mapping incorporates indexing several publication formats in the same database. It also provides fields for linking citations back to the OPAC records, where users may find call numbers for journals or books, be connected to the full text of articles when available, or to an association's own website when applicable. We address some of the concerns for libraries in developing indexing projects. The article offers a mapping table of migrated fields that can be used by others wanting to encourage the rediscovery of local print periodicals and to expand access to the various materials otherwise buried in the library's special collections. The Arkansas Publications Index was released in April 2005 and is available free at http://arkindex.uark.edu/.

Britain’s National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum joined the OCLC network in 1986, and from 1987 to 1990 created catalogue records in MARC format on the OCLC database pending the introduction of a stand-alone computer system. The Library now employs a Dynix minicomputer system for cataloguing, acquisitions, circulation, serials control, and the provisions of OPACs. About 15% of the Library’s records are available online. Retrospective conversion of older records is proceeding and may be completed by the year 2000. The online catalogue is networked internally within the Museum, and is likely to be accessible to external users via JANET in the future. A number of bibliographic and image databases are also provided in CD-ROM and videodisc format. Future developments will include interface between Museum/image and Library/documentation databases.

We have all had experience with the stress caused by an increase in library technology—CD‐ROMs with different user interfaces, online catalogs with different command structures than our CD‐ROMs, and still different protocols for accessing remote databases. Yet, can you imagine the stress that can result from a crash of a local bibliographic and circulation database? I can—because it happened to me.

The Yale ReviewVolume 92, Issue 1 p. 188-200 Recordings in Review Vincent Giroud, Vincent Giroud Vincent Giroud is curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Among his most recent publications are the exhibition catalogues William Walton, Composer (2002) and St Petersburg: Portrait of a Great City (2003).Search for more papers by this author Vincent Giroud, Vincent Giroud Vincent Giroud is curator of modern books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Among his most recent publications are the exhibition catalogues William Walton, Composer (2002) and St Petersburg: Portrait of a Great City (2003).Search for more papers by this author First published: 28 June 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0044-0124.2004.00795.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume92, Issue1January 2004Pages 188-200 RelatedInformation

SUMMARY Libraries are engaged in the development of customized portals or information gateways designed to reduce information overload and provide enhanced access to distributed information resources. Among the concerns that are being addressed in the next generation of library portals are: (1) providing enhanced navigation and linking through the rapidly growing number of electronic resources, in particular full-text resources; and (2) providing the capability of searching multiple information resources-such as periodical index databases, the library online catalog, and Web search engines-from a single user interface form. The technologies that will provide linking between discrete full-text resources and from periodical index databases and online catalogs to full-text will become increasingly important. These linking technologies are being built around information standards such as the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and the CrossRef publishers' initiative. Libraries are also building e-resource registry databases that identify and provide links to available licensed electronic full-text resources. This paper will describe the role of portal services and examine the technologies involved in full-text linking. The paper will also describe a portal application that was developed at the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign (UIUC), which features simultaneous search and dynamic linking capabilities over multiple information resources. This simultaneous search service provides a model for synchronous searching of information resources and offers full-text linking capabilities built around a custom UIUC e-resource database, the CrossRef metadata database, and the article DOI.

sorting through a pile of books, all tagged by the on-line library catalogue as having something to do with ethnobotany. I was then involved in research on the discourse of Indian/White relations (as it is usually termed by historians), and was looking for information on botanical plantways as a possible model for non-European discursive modes. The Autobiography immediately caught my eye because its cover featured a black and white photograph of a woman wearing a kerchief sitting on a large boulder with a traditional grinding stone in her hand. The desert background of the picture seemed very familiar, and when I looked over the introduction, I discovered that, indeed, the photograph reproduced a horizon from the California/Mexican borderland where I had grown up.

The new British Library building is being constructed next to St. Pancras railway station in London. The building itself is being constructed for the Department of National Heritage by PSA Projects, their Management Contractors, Laing Management, and a large number of sub‐contractors. By contrast the automation supporting the services in the new building is being managed directly by the British Library. This paper gives an outline of these computer systems and the services that they provide. It concentrates more on what the systems do rather than the technology by which they achieve their results. The main computer systems supporting reader services are readers' admissions, the online catalogue and automatic book request.

This article gives a brief description of the library organization in the Netherlands with emphasis on medical libraries. Library automation and cooperation is dominated by the PICA system (Project Integrated Catalogue Automation), a system which is used for shared cataloguing and interlibrary loan requests. The largest collection of periodicals in the sciences, life sciences and medicine in the Netherlands is found in the library of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. Second best are the libraries of the eight medical faculties in the Netherlands. Several health care institutes and organizations have important and specialized library collections. Library education in the Netherlands is either an in-service training with part-time theoretical courses or a four-year program in higher education. The biomedical information group of the Dutch Association of Librarians is well organized and very active. Task forces and study groups are working on several subjects, e. g. library automation, job descriptions, quality management, minimal requirements for medical libraries, internet sources and continuing education. The main issues in the next few years will be further development and integration of computer facilities together with library services. For most libraries finances will make it impossible to keep the collection of books and journals up-to-date and to maintain size and quality of the printed collection. Therefore pricing of document delivery, interlibrary loans, copyright, bibliographic and full-text databases will set constraints to information services where automation and networking promise potentially unlimited possibilities.

Various kinds of recommendation services open to the general public have recently been integrated into the website of the University Library of Karlsruhe as a test bed for information providers and e-commerce alike. This contribution reports on the development of RecoDiver, a graph-based user interface for behavior-based recommender systems. A Java applet integrated into the library's online catalog dynamically displays recommended further documents in a clickable graph centered around the document of interest to the user. A local view of the complete graph of recommendations is presented in a radial tree layout based on a minimum spanning tree with animated graph transitions featuring interpolations by polar coordinates to avoid crisscrossings. Further graph search tools like a selectable histogram of years of publication are available as well. This article portrays the user interface as well as the distributed web service architecture behind it and features an evaluation by user surveys showing the preference of users compared to the common lists of recommended items.

The scale of land degradation worldwide has led the UN to declare the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and movements such as the Bonn Challenge (https://www.bonnchallenge.org/), have placed ecological restoration on the global policy agenda. Achieving such ambitious policy targets and restoration goals will necessitate complex trade-offs against limited time, competing knowledge, costs, resources, and varying societal preferences among different stakeholders. Participatory scenarios are a tool to navigate uncertainties surrounding future trajectories and simultaneously incorporate different stakeholder perspectives. They can provide a path to identify collaborative solutions best suited for the local cultures and societies they are tied to. However, there is no systematic understanding of how participatory scenarios are being used in ecological restoration planning to navigate trade-offs in restoration outcomes. We will fill this research gap by mapping the existing evidence from participatory restoration scenarios to answer the primary research question 'How are outcomes explored in participatory ecological restoration scenarios?'. This will be done through five sub-questions focussing on characteristics of the evidence base, types of study design, how outcomes and trade-offs in those are explored, and an examination of the role of participants in the scenario process and outcome determination. This protocol outlines the methods for a systematic map to identify studies that have used participatory scenarios in restoration planning. A comprehensive and reproducible search strategy will be undertaken across bibliographic databases, web-based engines, and targeted searches in organisational online libraries. Searches will be done online in English, but results in all languages will be screened. Search results will go through a two-step screening process of against pre-determined criteria of inclusion and exclusion, for title and abstract and then full-text. Data will be extracted from eligible studies using a standardised data extraction spreadsheet where details on study characteristics, design and outcomes will be recorded. A searchable database of studies and mapping outcomes will be available upon completion of the work. The aim is to inform how scenarios can be better used as a decision-making tool to increase stakeholder participation and account for trade-offs in restoration outcomes across social, ecological, and economic dimensions.