Library of Congress Subject Headings as Subject Terminology in a Virtual Library: The INFOMINE Example

Mitchell, Steve

Untangling the Web / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljbi:14965)

Abstract:

INFOMINE (http://infomine.ucr.edu/) [Note: Link moved; URL changed 5/12/99 by ald] is an academic virtual library containing close to five thousand 'linked' records describing and providing access to academically useful Internet resources (Mitchell and Mooney). These records are organized via a hypertext database and presented in HTML format. INFOMINE began in January of 1994 as a project of the Library of the University of California, Riverside. It now includes participants from most other UC campuses. We initiated INFOMINE because we believe that by creating a virtual library we help make the new territories of the Internet available to others. By supplying links to our own documents and those of others we further shape and develop our conceptions of what's important and situate that in the web as new vistas to be discovered and entered by others. For hundreds of years this is what we as librarians have done with print resources and the concept of the well-selected 'collection'. Few groups are as qualified as we to continue, in a new information environment, the identification of scholarly resources of value to students and researchers. INFOMINE is among an important class of tool that is helping to define a useful scholarly information landscape in the Internet. Separate virtual collections or INFOMINEs exist in most major areas of university level research and educational interests.

Creation: 1996
Keywords: Encabezamientos de materia ; Bibliotecas digitales ; Library of Congress Subject Headings

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