The paper outlines international standards at present available for serials cataloguing, and goes on to describe the North American CONSER project in which these standards are…
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The paper outlines international standards at present available for serials cataloguing, and goes on to describe the North American CONSER project in which these standards are being applied. It then discusses the prospects for a British data base of serial records, with the British Library's BLAISE system especially in mind. It concludes that with so many authoritative records coming available from the CONSER project it would be fruitless to duplicate this work in Britain, but that, hopefully, new serial records being input to BLAISE will conform to the same standards being applied in CONSER.
The London and South‐Eastern Library Region (LASER) facilitates interlibrary lending in London and South East England. It has access to some 40 million volumes and through its…
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The London and South‐Eastern Library Region (LASER) facilitates interlibrary lending in London and South East England. It has access to some 40 million volumes and through its union catalogues is responsible for 215,000 Interlending requests per annum. This paper describes the background to the automation of LASER'S referral activity. It also gives details of the mini‐computer system which was eventually installed and in which over 1,000,000 titles are now recorded. Careful monitoring over the last two years has demonstrated a number of advantages over the manual system which preceded it. Bibliographical checking has been reduced by 25% and cost containment has exceeded expectations. The next stage in LASER'S development will be the provision of on‐line access to a number of the Bureau's main users.
This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/00242539610107550. When citing the…
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This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/00242539610107550. When citing the article, please cite: Ross Bourne, (1996), “Common MARC, or vivent les différences?”, Library Review, Vol. 45 Iss: 2, pp. 25 - 29.
MARC formats have been in use since the 1960s. UKMARC was developedoriginally by the British National Bibliography and although it nowmanifests itself in a variety of outputs �…
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MARC formats have been in use since the 1960s. UKMARC was developed originally by the British National Bibliography and although it now manifests itself in a variety of outputs – online, CD‐ROM, print, microfilm – it remains a tape‐based structure, has become tied to the British Library′s own products and services and is unduly concerned with how bibliographic data is ultimately processed. Anticipates UKMARC′s development over the next few years, during which the British Library is expected to co‐operate and consult more openly with format users; but also speculates whether the book community should not be looking ahead to non‐MARC means of transmitting bibliographic data in ways that are more appropriate to present technology.
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Currency with Coverage continues to raise great passion among the bibliographic community. However, the measures introduced to help reduce the British Library's cataloguing costs…
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Currency with Coverage continues to raise great passion among the bibliographic community. However, the measures introduced to help reduce the British Library's cataloguing costs and improve the currency of the British National Bibliography in its various manifestations — print, on‐line, CD‐ROM, etc. — have resulted in significant rises in the cataloguing hit‐rate, as measured by UKOLN at the University of Bath.
Investigates the history of the machine‐readable catalogue (MARC). Compares US and UK attitudes to MARC and raises the fact that US and British standards are incompatible…
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Investigates the history of the machine‐readable catalogue (MARC). Compares US and UK attitudes to MARC and raises the fact that US and British standards are incompatible. Suggests that the two should be able to integrate and gives reasons for this.
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You won't hear politicians talking about it — the single European currency and subsidiarity are far more headline‐grabbing topics — but the European Union has definite ideas on…
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You won't hear politicians talking about it — the single European currency and subsidiarity are far more headline‐grabbing topics — but the European Union has definite ideas on the future of the library: and, indeed, the library of the future. Its Telematics for Libraries Programme of research and technological development supports projects that are intended to increase access to library resources through the development of advanced systems, and to promote the interconnection of libraries, both directly with other libraries and within the European information and communications infrastructure generally.
Tuesday, 7 September 1993 and I am experiencing the different levels of investment by British Rail on its West Coast and East Coast routes as I travel from the North‐West of…
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Tuesday, 7 September 1993 and I am experiencing the different levels of investment by British Rail on its West Coast and East Coast routes as I travel from the North‐West of England to the University of Hertfordshire at Hatfield for the ninth International Library Technology Fair (renamed from this year as Libtech International). Catching up with the Times Higher Education Supplement of 20 August on the train I am pleasantly surprised to see a note about Libtech '93 and Hans Geleijnse's guest lecture on page 20.
CLIVE BINGLEY and ELAINE KEMPSON
IN AMERICA the book world is bemoaning the fact that us internal postal rates were hiked up yet again in July for the special ‘library rate’ and the ‘fourth‐class book rate’—the…
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IN AMERICA the book world is bemoaning the fact that us internal postal rates were hiked up yet again in July for the special ‘library rate’ and the ‘fourth‐class book rate’—the former to 10 cents for a 2‐lb package, and the latter to 28 cents for the same. They might be interested to know that the cost of sending a 2‐lb parcel of books by post internally in the UK is now the equivalent of $1.00.
Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell
This paper reviews BIBLINK, an EC funded project that is attempting to create links between national bibliographic agencies and the publishers of electronic resources. The project…
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This paper reviews BIBLINK, an EC funded project that is attempting to create links between national bibliographic agencies and the publishers of electronic resources. The project focuses on the flow of information, primarily in the form of metadata, between publishers and national libraries. The paper argues that in the digital information environment, the role of national bibliographic agencies will become increasingly dependent upon the generation of electronic links between publishers and other agents in the bibliographic chain. Related work carried out by the Library of Congress with regard to its Electronic CIP Program is described. The core of the paper outlines studies produced by the BIBLINK project as background to the production of a demonstrator that will attempt to establish some of these links. This research includes studies of metadata formats in use and an investigation of the potential for format conversion, including an outline of the BIBLINK Core metadata elements and comments on their potential conversion into UNIMARC. BIBLINK studies on digital identifiers and authentication are also outlined.