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Descriptive Resource Needs from the Reference Perspective: Report on a Survey of US Reference Librarians for the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium
Overview
Drawing on the results of a survey to be conducted this summer [2001], we plan to address the following topics from the perspective of reference providers:
Optimum "levels" of library and metadata descriptions (including descriptive/subject/administrative/access metadata) for content retrieval of Web-based resources (e.g. full MARC records; simpler, more structured Dublin Core records);
Descriptive needs that professional reference providers feel to be essential in performing their work (e.g. more subject data, more summary information);
Additional descriptive elements which reference librarians feel would facilitate achieving accurate and useful content retrieval in response to user queries and information demands;
Traditional concepts, such as authority files, uniform titles, specialized thesauri, that might be incorporated into metadata descriptions to facilitate resource discovery;
Problems, which might be addressed through improved interaction between metadata and present-day technologies, that arise as reference providers navigate the current "continuum" of resource discovery from catalog through "middleware tools" (such as pathfinders, finding aids, abstracting and indexing services, and databases) to content.
| Publisher | Library of Congress | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | November 2000 | Downloads | 2 |
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