LIS520
Janes
readings
Walker & Janes, Online Retrieval: A Dialogue of
Theory and Practice, chapters 5, 6, (PDF) 1998; also available
from UW as EBSCO ebook
WorldCat turns 40 OCLC
Why
Metadata Matters for the Future of E-Books Wired Epicenter August 2010
Some Findings from WorldCat Local Usability Tests OCLC July 2009
Working around works Lorcan Dempsey OCLC
Catalog 2.0: Your Library Catalog in a Global Environment
State Library of Kansas
Library
of Congress May Begin Transitioning Away from MARC Library Journal 5/26/11
How
the W3C Has Come to Love Library Linked Data Library Journal 8/31/11
Bray, Tim. "About as Big as
the Web" Ongoing (8 May 2003)
questions to prepare for class discussion
What sorts of content would you think you’d be likely
to find in books?
In what situations (types of questions) would you
think of turning to a search for books first?
How do the various searching options presented
below differ from each other?
How do the various data structures represented
differ from each other?
Can you think of 3 primary methods or schemes for
searching for books?
What is in the inverted file for the UW Libraries
Catalog? For WorldCat?
Amazon? Google
Book Search? NUC Pre-1956 Imprints?
How would you explain, to a lay
person, what happens when you do a search in WorldCat?
Is Open WorldCat a good
idea? For whom? Under what circumstances? Why is OCLC doing it?
Why do you think LC believes “it would behoove the
community to get comfortable with other data structures”?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of
pre-coordinate and post-coordinate methods of subject description for books and
monographs?
What strikes you in the WorldCat
Findings piece?
How would you explain the significance of the W3C
article to a friend, not in the information field?
How is searching for monographic materials
changing, as the nature of the book changes?
Searching
Options You may find these of use
in Searching Assignment 1.
UW
Libraries Catalog, Seattle Public
Library Catalog, King County Library
System Catalog
Orbis
Cascade Alliance (the Summit catalog)
OCLC
WorldCat (via FirstSearch,
UW restricted), see also worldcat.org
National
Union Catalog, National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints Suzz
Ref Folio Stacks
Verification
Tools: In Print and Price Listing
Resources (AcqWeb)
other
library catalogs (Libweb)
List of National
Libraries (Wikipedia)
European
national libraries, with some links to bibliographies and union catalogs
(The European Library)
national bibliographies of the World (listed, in print,
British Library)
Data
Structures
MARC Home Page, including Understanding MARC
Bibliographic (esp. Parts I, II,
III, VII, XI)
MARC Tag Mapping for OPACs
(Special Libraries Cataloging)
Examples
Record
for Online Retrieval from…
Searching
Stuff
Outline of the Library of Congress Classification