Electronic Resources : Selection and Bibliographic Control

The universe of electronic resources is indeed diverse, expansive, intimidating, and unstructured compared to the finite, prepackaged print world upon which the information delivery infrastructure has been constructed. Electronic Resources: Selection and Bibliographic Control addresses the resultant concerns of information professionals as they struggle to define, select, and control electronic resources in libraries and information centers today. This book offers readers an overview of issues and provides a common ground for deliberations and decisionmaking. Librarians and students concerned with the Internet and related issues will appreciate the broad scope and in-depth discussions in Electronic Resources: Selection and Bibliographic Control. From both conceptual and pragmatic standpoints, this book enlightens the reader on such topics as: Internet resources the relationship between OPAC and Internet Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) versus USMARC Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Core Language and the Information Bus Dublin Core Metadata as a discovery/retrieval tool decision-making matrix model e-texts and e-theses digital materials and digital libraries This book also gives the reader an inside look at a number of specific emerging projects from around the world. Highlighted here are the CATRIONA project from the U.K.—designing an Internet discovery and retrieval system; the ALCUIN project—using traditional infrastructure to handle Internet resources; the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) and the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia; the OCLC Internet Cataloging project; and the National Digital Library Program (NDLP), Encoded Archival Description (EAD), and electronic CIP projects at the Library of Congress. Electronic Resources: Selection and Bibliographic Control clearly illustrates the evolving role of librarian fro

The universe of electronic resources is indeed diverse, expansive, intimidating, and unstructured compared to the finite, prepackaged print world upon which the information delivery infrastructure has been constructed. Electronic Resources: Selection and Bibliographic Control addresses the resultant concerns of information professionals as they struggle to define, select, and control electronic resources in libraries and information centers today. This book offers readers an overview of issues and provides a common ground for deliberations and decisionmaking.

Librarians and students concerned with the Internet and related issues will appreciate the broad scope and in-depth discussions in Electronic Resources: Selection and Bibliographic Control. From both conceptual and pragmatic standpoints, this book enlightens the reader on such topics as:

• Internet resources
• the relationship between OPAC and Internet
• Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) versus USMARC
• Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
• Core Language and the Information Bus
• Dublin Core Metadata as a discovery/retrieval tool
• decision-making matrix model
• e-texts and e-theses
• digital materials and digital libraries

  This book also gives the reader an inside look at a number of specific emerging projects from around the world. Highlighted here are the CATRIONA project from the U.K.—designing an Internet discovery and retrieval system; the ALCUIN project—using traditional infrastructure to handle Internet resources; the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) and the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia; the OCLC Internet Cataloging project; and the National Digital Library Program (NDLP), Encoded Archival Description (EAD), and electronic CIP projects at the Library of Congress.

  Electronic Resources: Selection and Bibliographic Control clearly illustrates the evolving role of librarian from that of gatekeeping in the print world to that of active player in the electronic environment. This transformation calls for alternative strategies in educating future information professionals and reconfiguring traditional infrastructure for providing user services. This book answers that call and helps libraries and librarians as they scramble to define their role against the backdrop of the information-glutted Internet.

Booknews

A librarian resource addressing conceptual and practical issues in implementing electronic resources. The 12 articles build a foundation by discussing the principles for selection and bibliographic control and the relationship between library online catalogs and the World Wide Web, as well as detailing projects for creating access to electronic resources at several US universities and in the Library of Congress. Additionally, several of the essays present descriptions of TEI, SGLM, the Dublin Core, and innovative work in Australia and Scotland. The volume was originally published as "Cataloging and Classification Quarterly", v.22, nos.3-4, 1996. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

This book is a baseline guide for professionals and library school students on issues that concern the selection and bibliographic control of electronic resources, from both conceptual and pragmatic standpoints. The book includes the following articles: (1) "Foreward" (Lois Mai Chan); (2) "Introduction" (Ling-yuh W. (Miko) Pattie and Bonnie Jean Cox); (3) "Selecting Electronic Resources: Developing a Local Decision-Making Matrix" (Peggy Johnson); (4) "Intellectual Access to Digital Documents: Joining Proven Principles with New Technologies" (Carol A. Mandel and Robert Wolven); (5) "Metadata for Internet Resources: The Dublin Core Metadata Elements Set and Its Mapping to USMARC" (Priscilla Caplan and Rebecca Guenther); (6) "Cataloging for Digital Libraries" (Judith M. Brugger); (7) "Selection, Access, and Control in a Library of Electronic Texts" (David M. Seaman); (8) "Control of Electronic Resources in Australia" (Giles Martin); (9) "Parallel Universes" or Meaningful Relationships: Envisioning a Future for the OPAC and the Net" (Diane I. Hillmann); (10) "Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Merging Perspectives" (Gail McMillan); (11) "CATRIONA: A Distributed, Locally-Oriented, Z39.50 OPAC-Based Approach To Cataloguing the Internet" (Dennis Nicholson and Mary Steele); (12) "Possible Solutions for Incorporating Digital Information Mediums into Traditional Library Cataloging Services" (Eric Lease Morgan); (13) "Cataloging at the Library of Congress in the Digital Age" (Beth Davis-Brown and David Williamson); and (14) "Cataloging Internet Resources: The Convergence of Libraries and Internet Resources" (Martin Dillon and Erik Jul). Includes a subject index. (Author/SWC) "Electronic Resources: Selection and Bibliographic Control is a baseline guide for professionals and library school students on all issues that concern the selection and bibliographic control of electronic resources, from both conceptual and pragmatic standpoints. While the scope of Electronic Resources is broad-based, the discussions are in-depth."--Jacket The stunning growth and the democratization of the Internet usage during this past year when this collection was conceived has further validated the need for honest and provocative discussions among information professionals as to where we fit into what Clifford Stoll called the "unreal universe."