The Library Catalog as Experimental Sandbox

The user friendliness of the library catalog

Aristotle Meets Plato in the Library Catalog

Research Libraries (CARL) approach the design and implementation of what the organizers of this clinic have called "user friendly" systems, to describe a bit the organizational and systems setting within which we work, outline some of the design principles that guide our development, and provide a brief overview of the system as it exists today. Part 2, by Ken Dowlin, will discuss the system in...

Making a Library Catalog Adaptive

The design of a prototype adaptive catalog is presented. Online catalog searches commonly retrieve too few or too many items. This prototype, implemented as a transparent workstationbased front-end to MELVYL (tm) online catalog of the holdings of the nine campuses of the University of California, adapts to excessive or insufficient retrieval by strategically limiting, sorting, or expanding user...

IT Strategies from Oracle: Library Catalog

IT Strategies from Oracle is an authorized library of guidelines and reference architectures that will help you better plan, execute, and manage your enterprise architecture and IT initiatives. The IT Strategies from Oracle library offers two types of best practice documents: practitioner guides containing pragmatic advice and approaches, and reference architectures containing the proven techno...

Prologue for a synoptic catalog: combining a hospital library catalog and a bookseller's catalog.

This article introduces the synoptic catalog, a computerized combination of a hospital library catalog and a bookseller's catalog. Majors Scientific Books and Richmond Memorial Hospital Libraries in Virginia collaborated to develop the model. A logical evolution in catalog theory and practice, the design expands the identification, collocation, and evaluation functions of the traditional librar...