On the importance of subject cataloguing and information about author afiliation in research libraries in COBISS.SI: the practice of indexing fields 6XX and subfield 70X8
The paper gives a new insight into the cataloguing practice in the COBISS.SI system, primarily regarding the necessity of bibliographic data for the management of bibliographies for researchers and research organisations. The paper evaluates two areas in the cataloguing practice, both of them optional but recommended. The research deals with the consistency of the entry of author affiliation and with the analysis of the existing possibilities of using it in the process of preparing bibliographies for research organisations. Three methodological approaches are used: a) performance and analysis of an online questionnaire for academic and special librarians (n =113) about their work as librarians bibliographers, b) analysis of indexing subfield 70X8 (author affiliation) in bibliographic records, created for the needs of researchers’ bibliographies, in seventy libraries participating in the COBISS.SI system, and c) analysis of the data logs of 401 records created by ten librarians bibliographers. The results show the inconsistency of subject indexing of bibliographic records and of the entry of the author affiliation. The entry of this information should be mandatory for the records that an institution wishes to be included in its bibliography but only 1% of librarians bibliographers regularly enter this information, whereas 16% of librarians bibliographers never enter it; 83% of the librarians bibliographers who answered the questionnaire consistently enter subject headings in Slovenian, only 26% also in other languages. On average they enter between 4.5 subject headings in Slovenian and one in another language. They tend to index uncontrolled subject headings more often. Due to the special nature of the Slovenian library system, which links the shared catalogue and the current research information system (SICRIS), the results are only applicable in the Slovenian context and in the COBISS environment. Subject headings in a foreign language, especially in English, represent an added value to the record because of the increasing data exchange between COBISS.SI and the established portal Open Science Slovenia and other databases. Even though the entry of subject headings is optional, the data is very important. However, the proportion of librarians bibliographers who are not aware of the importance of this information or do not enter it due to work overload is not negligible.
The paper discusses challenges in the development of UNIMARC as an encoding standard for metadata content that conforms to the stipulations of ISBD for Manifestation, an implementation of the IFLA Library Reference Model. UNIMARC already encodes metadata controlled by ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description, the precursor of ISBD for Manifestation.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1945, the Decree on Mandatory Delivery of Printed Matters in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Decree on the National Library of Federal Bosnia and Herzegovina were passed, which laid the legal foundations for creating a Bibliography of Bosniaca. Later in B&H, following the foundation of the B&H Library Association in 1955, the first B&H librarianship journal, the Bulletin of the B&H Library Association and the National Library of the People's Republic of B&H was launched, where the journal was first renamed to Librarianship: Journal of the B&H Library Association and then to Librarianship: Yearbook of the B&H Library Association.
The article presents in detail the data on the annual increment of bibliographic records in 2022 at annual and monthly levels. The analysis includes 171,503 bibliographic records created by 546 cataloguers. In the last quarter of the year, 27.5% of bibliographic records were created.
Authority control is an important part of cataloguing. The Slovene CONOR.SI authority file including authority records for individual and corporate authors, enables among others identification of authors. The purpose of the research was to find out cataloguers’ opinions on its usefulness, its advantages and disadvantages, and how creating authority records for corporate authors was practised. The survey was conducted as an online questionnaire and interview, 73 cataloguers from academic libraries participated. The results showed that the majority of surveyed cataloguers were satisfied with CONOR.SI.
The Fifth Information Age is characterised by the ubiquitous recording of social transactions in an explosion of persistent cultural memory. A person who contributes to social media is an agent who creates digital cultural artefacts. The internet of things, of personal devices for the capture, creation, transmission, and output of information means everyone is potentially an author, a publisher, a distributor, with a profound impact on traditional methods of authority control. The focus of authority control is shifting from the provision of a unique label for an individual person or group to the description of an individual as an instance of a class, as an entity.
The purpose of this paper is to offer additional help to cataloguers for more uniform and higher quality cataloguing of textual component parts, and at the same time to gather information about where cataloguers can get informed about novelties and changes in the cataloguing of textual component parts.
The paper describes and emphasizes the importance of authority control for personal names in the development of library catalogues. The introductory part of the paper presents a historical overview of the development of authority control in world librarianship, the most important library conferences that dealt with this topic, as well as the way authority control functions in the world and in library-information systems operating on the COBISS platform.
By introducing the IFLA Library Reference Model, the significance of authority control is constantly increasing as authority data will play a key role in the linked data network. Consequently, the preparation of authority data will help when implementing IFLA LRM and will prove useful during the transition to RDA (Resource Description and Access). The overview of authority data situation in the COBISS.net system with the focus on the Slovenian COBISS.SI system is presented.
The article presents in detail the data on the annual increment of bibliographic records in 2021 at annual and monthly levels. The analysis includes 177,705 bibliographic records created by 543 cataloguers. In the last quarter of the year, 28 % of bibliographic records were created. Most records, i.e. 1,015 records, were created on Tuesday, 9 February 2021, Tuesdays are also the most productive days in the year.
This article presents the current state of bibliographic transition in France, the approach and the organization that were applied to make library catalogues compatible with semantic web technologies and bibliographic data on the web. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to move to entity-based cataloguing built on the IFLA LRM model.
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