The Online Library Catalog

Prototyping a Microcomputer - Based Online Library Catalog

Extending the Online Catalog

Future plans of the California Ins titute of T echno logy Libraries (Brudwig, 1984) include an online analytic catalog of books, serials, journals, a nd technical reports . In an attempt to avoid the observation of Mandel a nd Herschman (1983) that " new technologies are often adapted to traditiona l uses without exploiting added capabilities" (p . 148), a number of innovative cataloging approa...

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...