Συλλογικός Κατάλογος Ακαδημαϊκών Βιβλιοθηκών: Από την πρόκληση της υλοποίησης στην πρόκληση της επέκτασης λειτουργιών, υπηρεσιών, δημιουργών και χρηστών
| Main Author: | Τσιμπόγλου, Φίλιππος |
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| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | el |
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, 2006
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/8918/1/tsimpoglou_livadia_2006.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/8918/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This paper presents the experience gained from the creation of the Union Catalogue of the Hellenic Academic Libraries (UC). For the time being the UC contains 1.057.000 unique records originated from 23 Universities (one of which in Cyprus), operating five different library software programmes with four different character sets and two MARC formats. The basic needs that are covered by Union Catalogues are those of the facilitation of the cataloguing and the support of Interlibrary loan procedures. The exploitation of the UC in Greece makes it the central tool for the development of the national union catalogue, the creation of the cooperative “national authority files” and the transition from the situation of uncoordinated cataloguing to the cooperative cataloguing. The existing situation has enforced a cost ineffective practice, where “each title is catalogued so many times as the number of the libraries that acquire it”. The attempted transition permits the achievement of cost effectiveness and standardisation, provided that “each title is catalogued once and the bibliographic record is used by all the libraries that acquire the book”. The paper records the early initiatives and attempts for the development of union catalogues in Greece, preceding the UC of the Hellenic Academic Libraries. The UC consists a work package of the project “Networking of the Libraries of the tertiary Education” in the frame of the programme EPEAEK (Operational Programme for Education and Initial Training), co-funded by European Community Structural Funds and the Hellenic state. The implementation of the UC was based on the study contacted in 1998 by a working group consisted of Greek librarians and computer scientists and invited experts from abroad. They examined the existing situation in the Greek libraries and approved the creation of a natural central Union Catalogue vs. a so called virtual distributed catalogue, based on the Z39.50 protocol. According to the author a union catalogue exists only if provides the functions of identification and unification (merging) of the similar records. The UC is a slave type, as it is fed with records from the local libraries. The paper describes the procedures followed for the development of the UC. Comments are provided on the characteristics of the algorithms for the identification and the merging of similar records that have been developed for the needs of the UC. The pros and cons of the UC vs. the systems of join search of distributed catalogues based on Z39.50 protocol are presented and commented. The complementarities of the two approaches are proposed. The model of the Continual Committees for Cataloguing for the establishment of common rules and policies is also presented.