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The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration With Other Discovery Tools
URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/calhoun-report-final.pdf

Description:
This March 2006 report offers an analysis of the reasons why "a large and growing number of students and scholars routinely bypass library catalogs in favor of other discovery tools" and considers methods for revitalizing library catalogs and integrating the catalog with other tools. Opens directly into a PDF document. Prepared for the Library of Congress by Cornell librarian Karen Calhoun.

Author:
Calhoun, Karen

Publisher:
Library of Congress

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Information retrieval
Internet resources
Library catalogs

LII Database Information:
Record 21370 created by Maria Brandt on 05/01/2006
Last modification on 05/03/2006
Published: 05/04/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21370