Library Online Cataloguing System
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction to online system. 2. Cataloguing system. 3. Library computerisation. 4. Layout of catalogue code. 5. Provisions for cataloguing. 6. Centralised and cooperative cataloguing. 7. Computer and online academic libraries. 8. Computer and electronic services in library. 9. Cataloguing in library. 10. Process of communication in library. Index.
"The quality of online subject retrieval via a classification scheme depends on the computer hardware and software capabilities, and on the structure and notation of the classification scheme. Among the latter\'s essential qualities for this purpose are a logical structure; a definite, standard and communicable way of handling material that relates to more than one field (such as city planning or the influence of religion on art), and a notation that is expressive and therefore permits truncation and hierarchical searching relatively easily. A sure and successful method of guaranteeing efficient service to the readers is to provide a simple, workable catalogue of books and other reading material in a library. A library without a good catalogue of its books is unlikely to reveal to readers the entire range of its resources, however close the classification might be and despite open access to the shelves." (jacket)
"The quality of online subject retrieval via a classification scheme depends on the computer hardware and software capabilities, and on the structure and notation of the classification scheme. Among the latter\'s essential qualities for this purpose are a logical structure; a definite, standard and communicable way of handling material that relates to more than one field (such as city planning or the influence of religion on art), and a notation that is expressive and therefore permits truncation and hierarchical searching relatively easily. A sure and successful method of guaranteeing efficient service to the readers is to provide a simple, workable catalogue of books and other reading material in a library. A library without a good catalogue of its books is unlikely to reveal to readers the entire range of its resources, however close the classification might be and despite open access to the shelves." (jacket)
