A library chooses its cataloguing practice, depending on the environment where it operates. Some experience with and dilemmas about the use of the COMARC format are described as seen by cataloguers in a public library while solving their everyday practical cataloguing problems.
The quality of bibliographic records in the COBIB.SI shared bibliographic database and all local bibliographic databases is key to the high performance COBISS.SI system.
Describes a process of gradual implementation of authority control in the COBISS library informationsystem in Slovenia (COBISS.SI). The CONOR.SI initial authority database contained, at thetime of its implementation, over 24,000 authority records for personal authors, mostly Slovenian,from publishing production of the last few years.
Studying the information behaviour, to which also user studies belong, represents the most fertile point of contact between information science and sociology, psychology and education science. According to their purpose user studies belong to the information science, according to their methods (questionnaire, interview, focus group) they belong to the named older social sciences.
The article describes CORC – the OCLC pilot project on co-operative Web-based resource cataloguing, its formation, objectives and performance. The last part gives a short account of IZUM’s experience of participating in the project.
Until electronic publishing appeared, scientific communication had been developing almost 400 years in the direction technologically defined by print on paper.
