Cataloguing Electronic Sources: progress so far at Information Services, University of Birmingham

Mrs J.R.Hwang Team Leader, Bibliographic Services Tel: 0121-414 5814     j.r.hwang@bham.ac.uk     (Information Services University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT. W. Mids)

Ariadne 1997
(ReLIS:doi:doiari:y:1997:i:11:p:9)

Abstract:

We began looking seriously at cataloguing electronic journals early this year. We already had full listings of the e-journals accessible to our users on our Web Information Services Guide, from which readers could click to the text, but we wished to improve on this by offering access via our Web OPAC. We identified a number of questions immediately: how to decide what to catalogue, out of the fast-increasing numbers of journals accessible to our users, how to create the cataloguer time necessary to do the work, how to ensure that the work was done to the correct standards, what terms we should use locally on catalogue notes to explain the nature and location of the material being catalogued, and what we should be doing to ensure that material we had carefully catalogued at one url was still there some time later. Some of these questions were more easily answered than others.

Keywords: Issues of particular interest to librarians. This month cataloguing electronic resources.
Note: Jackie Hwang, Team Leader, Bibliographic Services, describes how the University of Birmingham has begun to tackle the orderly presentation of online information to its staff and students. This article appears in the Web, and not the print, version of Ariadne.
Month: September 1997
Year: 1997

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