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Barbara L. Bell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A New Frame of Reference: National Bibliographies in Southern Africa and the ICNBS Recommendations
Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, 2000Co-Authors: Barbara L. BellAbstract:In November 1998 an International Conference on National Bibliographic Services (ICNBS) agreed recommendations that took into account changes in format, technology and communications since 1977. The current national Bibliographies of 11 southern African countries adhere to these recommendations to varying degrees. National Bibliographic Agencies, mostly located in national libraries or national archives, with different parent bodies, are responsible for the Bibliographies, except for Lesotho and Swaziland. Nine of the countries have legal deposit; four of them have revised the relevant law since 1990. All the Bibliographies are produced as print on paper, only Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland offering alternatives. DDC is used by seven countries. The lag between dates of publication of works and publication of the national bibliography is between three and six years for six of the countries; South Africa and Swaziland are the most effective in timeliness of publication and distribution. Three countries have not automated their national Bibliographies. Those Bibliographies that are regularly published meet many of the ICNBS recommendations.
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Current National Bibliographies in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic States
Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, 1998Co-Authors: Barbara L. BellAbstract:The dissolution of the USSR created 15 new nations, which are struggling to gain national identity. Twelve are now members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan); the remaining three are the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Many of these former republics had established a regional bibliography but these Bibliographies were neither visible nor available to a wide audience. Since independence, ethnic interests are reemerging and these countries are publishing their current national Bibliographies in the language of the country. Titles within the national Bibliographies also are appearing in these languages. The national Bibliographies still need greater visibility and availability. This article identifies and briefly describes the scope, arrangement, classification scheme and indexes included in the current national bibliography within each country in an attempt to make this information more accessible and available to librarians and researchers.
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An Annotated Guide to Current National Bibliographies - An Annotated Guide to Current National Bibliographies
1997Co-Authors: Barbara L. BellAbstract:A response to dramatic changes in the geopolitical map, this new guide offers a frame of reference to negotiate the broad, complex, and ever-changing terrain of national Bibliographies.Since the prior edition, at least 28 new countries have been created, with nations such as the former Yugoslavia reconstructing their Bibliographies to more clearly reflect the ethnicity of their citizens. Technological advances have also had an impact: six countries now offer their Bibliographies exclusively in electronic format.The guide covers 181 countries offering 133 individual national Bibliographies and 12 regional Bibliographies. Even countries without a current program are represented by their most recent issue.Arranged by country, entries include title and key details, such as the compiler, contents, and format, as well as relevant information specific to the bibliography in question.
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an annotated guide to current national Bibliographies
1997Co-Authors: Barbara L. BellAbstract:A response to dramatic changes in the geopolitical map, this new guide offers a frame of reference to negotiate the broad, complex, and ever-changing terrain of national Bibliographies.Since the prior edition, at least 28 new countries have been created, with nations such as the former Yugoslavia reconstructing their Bibliographies to more clearly reflect the ethnicity of their citizens. Technological advances have also had an impact: six countries now offer their Bibliographies exclusively in electronic format.The guide covers 181 countries offering 133 individual national Bibliographies and 12 regional Bibliographies. Even countries without a current program are represented by their most recent issue.Arranged by country, entries include title and key details, such as the compiler, contents, and format, as well as relevant information specific to the bibliography in question.
Annie Pho - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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student Bibliographies charting research skills over time
Reference Services Review, 2016Co-Authors: Catherine Lantz, Glenda Insua, Annie Armstrong, Annie PhoAbstract:Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare two bibliography assignments completed after one-shot library instruction to determine which research skills first-year students retain over the course of a semester. Design/methodology/approach A rubric was developed for citation analysis of student-annotated Bibliographies and final Bibliographies. Each assignment was scored on a three-point scale, and four criteria were assessed: the quality of sources used, variety of sources used, quality of annotations (for first assignment only) and citation accuracy. Findings Students scored highest on the quality of sources used in both assignments, although there was a statistically significant decline in overall scores from the first assignment to the second. Students had the most difficulty with writing annotations, followed closely by citation accuracy. Students primarily cited journal articles in their annotated Bibliographies and reference sources in their final Bibliographies. Website use increased notably from one assignment to the other. Originality/value This research is unique in its analysis of two separate bibliography assignments completed by first-year students over the course of a semester. It is of interest to librarians teaching one-shot library instruction or any librarian interested in assessing the research skills of first-year students.
Unni Knutsen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Changes in National Bibliographies, 1996–2000
Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, 2002Co-Authors: Unni KnutsenAbstract:A survey on national Bibliographies was carried out among member countries of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in 2001, as a follow up to Holley's 1996 survey. All parts of the world are represented among the 52 responses. The main findings are that legal deposit legislation still emphasizes textual material. Many agencies are currently revising their legislation to include more types of material, in particular electronic documents. Print remains the preferred format for national Bibliographies but more and more agencies are offering Internet access. More than half of the agencies are currently undertaking or planning retrospective conversion programmes.
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changes in national Bibliographies 1996 2000
Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues, 2002Co-Authors: Unni KnutsenAbstract:A survey on national Bibliographies was carried out among member countries of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries in 2001, as a follow up to Holley's 1996 survey. All parts of the world are represented among the 52 responses. The main findings are that legal deposit legislation still emphasizes textual material. Many agencies are currently revising their legislation to include more types of material, in particular electronic documents. Print remains the preferred format for national Bibliographies but more and more agencies are offering Internet access. More than half of the agencies are currently undertaking or planning retrospective conversion programmes.
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changes in the national Bibliographies 1996 2001
International cataloguing and bibliographic control, 2001Co-Authors: Unni KnutsenAbstract:L'A. presente les resultats d'une enquete realisee en 2001 sous l'egide de l'IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), portant sur l'evolution des Bibliographies nationales dans 52 pays et notamment sur l'inclusion des documents electroniques dans les Bibliographies. L'enquete constitue une mise a jour par rapport a l'etude realisee en 1996 par Robert Halley : Resultats d'une enquete sur le controle bibliographique et la bibliographie nationale. Elle porte sur : l'existence d'une loi pour le depot legal, les types de materiel sous controle bibliographique, les changements survenus dans le domaine du controle bibliographiqe et du depot legal, les types de materiel inclus dans la bibliographie nationale, les formats utilises dans les Bibliographies nationales (plus particulierement l'adoption de l'internet), l'existence de notices bibliographiques en ligne, la couverture retrospective, la politique des prix.
Andreas Juffinger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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using national Bibliographies for rights clearance
ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2011Co-Authors: Nuno Freire, Andreas JuffingerAbstract:In the process of digitizing a book, a library needs to clear the rights associated with it. Rights clearance is a time consuming process, and possibly, with higher costs than the actual digitization. To analyze the rights situation, a range of information is required, which is distributed across several national databases hosted in national libraries, publishers and collective rights organizations. National Bibliographies are key data sources in these processes, as they are the only source to identify all the publications of a specific intellectual work per country. However, national Bibliographies are not built for rights clearance purposes. The information in bibliographic records results from cataloguing practices with users and library management in mind, and links between different publications of a single intellectual work are not available. This paper presents a study on the implications of data quality problems of national Bibliographies for the identification of all publications of a work. It also presents an approach for work data extraction and matching based on similarity of the most discriminatory attributes of works. Evaluation has shown that the data quality problems are difficult to overcome, as our best approach achieved an F0,5-measure of 0,91. These results help to speed up the process of discovering all relevant publications per work significantly, with sufficient recall.
Catherine Lantz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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student Bibliographies charting research skills over time
Reference Services Review, 2016Co-Authors: Catherine Lantz, Glenda Insua, Annie Armstrong, Annie PhoAbstract:Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare two bibliography assignments completed after one-shot library instruction to determine which research skills first-year students retain over the course of a semester. Design/methodology/approach A rubric was developed for citation analysis of student-annotated Bibliographies and final Bibliographies. Each assignment was scored on a three-point scale, and four criteria were assessed: the quality of sources used, variety of sources used, quality of annotations (for first assignment only) and citation accuracy. Findings Students scored highest on the quality of sources used in both assignments, although there was a statistically significant decline in overall scores from the first assignment to the second. Students had the most difficulty with writing annotations, followed closely by citation accuracy. Students primarily cited journal articles in their annotated Bibliographies and reference sources in their final Bibliographies. Website use increased notably from one assignment to the other. Originality/value This research is unique in its analysis of two separate bibliography assignments completed by first-year students over the course of a semester. It is of interest to librarians teaching one-shot library instruction or any librarian interested in assessing the research skills of first-year students.
