22. 6. 2020
Cataloguing, Computer science and informatics, Social science and humanities

Digital humanities: a whim or a (bibliographical) routine?

Sonja Svoljšak

    The article presents and analyses selected digital humanities projects and research initiatives in which libraries and other heritage institutions participate actively. These ambitious global projects supplement the existing knowledge on general and specific social and cultural-historical phenomena in the field of written cultural heritage with the help of web-based applications, tools and the collaborative location-independent research approach.

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    19. 6. 2020
    Cataloguing

    Updating records in VIAF and recommendations for higher quality display of Slovenian authority records in VIAF

    Andreja Krajnc Vobovnik

      The article describes the process of updating Slovenian authority records in VIAF, the entry of identifiers into the CONOR.SI database and their display in COBISS+. For most authority records, the updating in VIAF went smoothly, whereas in some records for personal names errors occurred during the process of putting them into clusters, which were then sorted into four groups and compared with the typical entry-related issues described in the VIAF Guidelines.

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      21. 5. 2020
      COBISS, Libraries, User studies

      Users in the COBISS environment – experiences at the Public Library of Užice

      Gordana Bacotić, Biljana Ristović

        In 2019, the Public Library of Užice conducted a survey to assess the level of user knowledge of the search process in COBISS/OPAC (now COBISS+). The survey consisted of the following segments: user profile, most commonly used access points, use of screen tips and ease of searching, and user evaluation of the search results obtained.

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        18. 5. 2020
        Bibliographies, Cataloguing

        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

        Maja Peteh, Primož Južnič

          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.

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          12. 5. 2020
          Cataloguing

          Improving WorldCat quality

          Jay Weitz

            OCLC’s WorldCat approaches 475 million bibliographic records. Many of those records have been created manually by members of OCLC’s worldwide cooperative. Others have been added to WorldCat en masse from institutions large and small, from national libraries, from cultural heritage institutions, or from rural public libraries.

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            2. 3. 2020
            Cataloguing

            Archival description using UNIMARC: Presidential Library experience

            Olga Zhlobinskaya

              The paper presents basic approaches to managing archival resources in the Presidential library (Saint-Petersburg, Russia). All resources in the collection are described using the RUSMARC format (national implementation of UNIMARC), which provides sufficient instruments to keep the hierarchical structure of archival description and to give detailed characteristics of the materials.

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              3. 12. 2019
              COBISS, School libraries

              Library System Development Centre, National and University Library, and integration of school libraries in COBISS

              Eva Kodrič-Dačić

                The amendments to the Librarianship Act in 2015 redefined the status of school libraries and assigned new tasks associated with the monitoring of the activities and development of school libraries to the National and University Library (NUL). The statistical monitoring of activities performed by school libraries, the designing of the school library development strategy, the concept of three-year development plans and the development of regulations on the conditions to be met by school libraries in the field of education are among the new activities of the Library System Development Centre, NUL.

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