کتابداری و اطلاع رسانی

Using Internet Resources to Research Dates of Birth and Death of Relatively Obscure Individuals for Inclusion in Name Authority Records
Linnea Marshall

ABSTRACT: Adding dates to personal name headings to disambiguate individuals is not only useful for establishing distinctive name headings, they provide chronological context. However, finding the dates of birth and death of relatively obscure and deceased individuals can be difficult since these people are not well documented in published reference materials, nor are they still alive to contact directly. There is an increasing amount of information available at Internet sites on people from previous generations who lived in the United States. While genealogists are the primary audience for many of these sites, they can also aid the NACO cataloger.

RDA Simplified
Richard A. Stewart and Joy Anhalt

ABSTRACT: This article summarizes a presentation on RDA given at the Reaching Forward conference in Rosemont, Illinois, in May 2011. The presenters felt that, with all that has been written about RDA, a look at practical considerations would be welcome. After a brief look at the historical background and the reasons for developing a new code, the presentation focused on some notable differences between AACR2 and RDA in structure, terminology, the treatment of certain classes of access points, and various aspects of description as reflected in bibliographic records

The Faceted Catalog as a Tool for Searching Monographic Series: Usability Study of Lens
Larisa Walsh

This study explored the functionality of the University of Chicago's faceted catalog, Lens, in respect to monographic series. A user study was designed to evaluate the efficiency of Lens in searching for monographic series and also to determine whether controlled series access in the catalog record improves the search results. The results of the study indicate that while Lens could be considered an adequate tool for searching series that are known to be published under the same title, some changes would make it a better search engine for a series that changes series statements from one volume to another

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