Journal of Library Automation, vol 8, no 3
LITA | jola0803
Journal of Library Automation
ISSN 0022-2240
Volume 8, Number 3, September 1975
Editorial
The Best of All Possible Worlds
SUSAN K. MARTIN
Feature Articles
The Washington Library Network's Computerized
Bibliographic System
MARY JANE POBST REED
State of the Nation in Networking
BRETT BUTLER
Initial Article Filing in Computer-Based Book Catalogs:
Techniques, Problems, and Article Frequencies
CHARLES P. BOURNE
Technical Communications
In Transition: The Systems Librarian in the 1980s
THOMAS F. PARKER
Editorial
The Best of All Possible Worlds (p.173)
SUSAN K. MARTIN
Feature Articles
The Washington Library Network's Computerized
Bibliographic System (p.174-199)
MARY JANE POBST REED
The Washington Library Network is developing a computer-assisted bibliographic
system to speed and expand library operations throughout the state. Features
include MARC format with all content designators, subject and name authority
files, sorting by LC rules, and stringent quality control. Future modules
will add acquisition/accounting and circulation support. On-line capabilities
are currently under development.
This paper describes the present batch-mode cataloging support subsystem,
its history, operation, impacts, problems, costs. Present developmental
efforts toward on-line integrated acquisitions and cataloging support are
indicated.
State of the Nation in Networking (p.200-220)
BRETT BUTLER
(no abstract available)
Initial Article Filing in Computer-Based
Book Catalogs: Techniques, Problems, and Article Frequencies (p.221-247)
CHARLES P. BOURNE
This report is concerned with one part of the problem of computer implementation
of library filing rules, namely the handling of initial articles in many
languages. A brief review is given of the general computer-based methods
used for filing catalog records. With a catalog for an academic library
collection of approximately 750,000 title entries and over 50,000 initial
article character strings, an empirical study was made of the frequency
of misfiling that would occur for each article if simple table lookup procedures
were used for the ninety-three different articles studied. Including all
of these articles in a simple table lookup program without language codes
would result in the computer misfiling of approximately 6.3 percent of the
title entries according to library filing rules. A strategy is suggested
which reduces this error rate.
Technical Communications
In Transition: The Systems Librarian in
the 1980s (p.260-261)
THOMAS F. PARKER
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