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Il catalogo di qualità : che vi sia ciascun lo dice, dove sia, nessun lo sa
Full text linkQuality is essential in any field of interest and activity (ref. UNI EN ISO 8402:1995 Quality management and quality assurance). What does quality mean in a library catalog? What are the requirements for quality? Quantitative measures are not enough to determine the quality of a catalog. The author proposes ten principles of qualitative analysis: authority control; cataloguing rules; competence and speedness of work; availability of databases and indexes; software and hardware used; clearness and readability of the catalog; reading ability; record functionality; every reader his catalog; maintenance frequency
Recensione a Guerrini, Mauro. Gli archivi istituzionali: Open access, valutazione della ricerca e diritto d’autore, Bibliografica 2010
No full textBook review of Guerrini, Mauro. Gli archivi istituzionali: Open access, valutazione della ricerca e diritto d’autor
Padri della Chiesa e scrittori ecclesiastici occidentali (secoli II-XIII)
No full textACOLIT is an authority list of catholic authors (persons or corporate bodies) and of liturgical and religious anonymus works. ACOLIT formulates catalogue entries on the basis of RICA, but also takes into account the Norme per il catalogo degli stampati of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, the AACR2R, the Regeln für die alphabetische Katalogisierung (RAK), the Reglas de catalogación, and the recommendations of IFLA. Three volumes have already been published: Bible, Catholic Church, Roman Curia, Papal State, Vatican, Popes and Antipopes (1997); Catholic religious orders (2000); Liturgical works (2003). The fourth volume is devoted to Fathers of the Church and to Western ecclesiastical Writers (II-XIII centuries). Our point of departure for this authority list are the indices in Migne Patrologia Latina, compared with indices of other authoritatives directories paper and on line (p.e., Personennamen des Mittelalters, Bibliotheca sanctorum, BISLAM: Bibliotheca scriptorum Latinorum medii recentiorisque aevi, Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, VIAF). The principal lemma is the Italian form according to the language of the catalogue. The principal entry is followed by variants. For the realization of this authority list we, the editors, had to expend considerable energy in the effort to establish homogeneous forms using bibliographical sources and directories: we realize we may not have always succeeded and would be happy to receive suggestion or further information
A Turning Point for Catalogs: Ranganathan's Possible Point of View
Full text linkSince the end of the last century, catalogs have been changing more and more quickly. This change is following a recognizable course, beginning with the publication of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, passing through the reorganization of international cataloging principles, the revision of international standards of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (International Standard for Bibliographic Description), and the foundation of new cataloging codes, such as Resource Description and Access. While principles, models, and rules are well established, bibliographic formats seem to be a bottleneck and users seem far from libraries. This article aims to present an overview of current changes, potential convergences, developments, and weak points from Ranganathan's point of vie
RDA: Resource Description and Access : il nuovo standard per la metadatazione e la scoperta delle risorse nell'era digitale
No full textThis work is designed for four kind of readers: cataloguing students, aspirant librarians, librarians who wish to
keep up-to-date and anyone who wishes to describe and give access to any kind of resource on the web. Last kind
is original but important, because it is expressive of the great change that RDA (Resource Description and Access)
is going to promote. In fact, guidelines – rather than rules – are addressed to anyone wishes to describe and make
accessible a cultural heritage collection or tout court a collection: librarians, archivists, curators and professionals
in any other branch of knowledge. The work is organized in two parts: the former contains theoretical foundations
of cataloguing (FRBR, ICP, semantic web and linked data), the latter a critical presentation of RDA guidelines. RDA
aims to make possible creation of well-structured metadata for any kind of resources, reusable in any context
and technological environment. RDA offers a “set of guidelines and instructions to create data for discovery of
resources”. Guidelines stress four actions – to identify, to relate (from FRBR/FRAD user tasks and ICP), to represent
and to discover – and a noun: resource. To identify entities of Group 1 and Group 2 of FRBR (Work, Expression,
Manifestation, Item, Person, Family, Corporate Body); to relate entities of Group 1 and Group 2 of FRBR, by means
of relationships. To enable users to represent and discover entities of Group 1 and Group 2 by means of their attributes
and relationships. These last two actions are the reason of users’ searches, and users are the pinpoint of
the process. RDA enables the discovery of recorded knowledge, that is any resource conveying information, any
resources transmitting intellectual or artistic content by means of any kind of carrier and media. RDA is a content
standard, not a display standard nor an encoding standard: it gives instructions to identify data and does not care
about how display or encode data produced by guidelines. RDA requires an original approach, a metanoia, a deep
change in the way we think about cataloguing. Innovations in RDA are many: it promotes interoperability between
catalogs and other search tools, it adopts terminology and concepts of the Semantic Web, it is a global standard,
it can be applied by different agencies to create data. RDA is expected to be enriched by wide community of professional,
from all the world, in a collaborative, well-aware, recognized and global perspective. By RDA, the great
tradition of cataloguing goes one step further and enters in the digital age definitively
IFLA in 70 scatti : culture, tradizioni e biblioteche a confronto. Introduzione
Full text linkThe IFLA annual Conference is the most relevant and meaningful experience for the library world. The catalogue IFLA 70 images. Comparing cultures, traditions and libraries resembles a journey among different library managing systems in Africa and Asia, with a significant survey of the socio-cultural traditions of those countries
025.3 Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
Full text linkFRBR has two main tasks: to offer a framework in which to relate selected data and users' needs; to recommend a basis functionality level for records created by national bibliographic agencies. FRBR tries to locate the objects of interest through a model called E-R (entities-relations). Entities are related between each other and can be described with attributes or metadata. FRBR counts three groups: 1. products of intellectual or artistic endeavour; 2. person and corporate body, responsible for the custodianship of group 1’s intellectual or artistic endeavour; 3. subjects of group 1 or group 2’s intellectual endeavour (they include concepts, objects, events, places). FRBR detects four users' functions: 1. to find the entities corresponding to search standards; 2. to identify the entity; 3. to select an entity complying to users' needs; 4. to obtain and to acquire access to the described entity
International Cataloguing Tradition and Italian Rules: Common Ground and Specific Features
Full text linkMany current cataloguing codes have their roots in a common tradition started by the 1961 Paris International Conference on Cataloguing Principles – ICCP. Since 1961, the construction of new national codes had been based on the sharing of cataloguing principles, on agreements for international cooperation, and on a common tradition. The new technological and international environment suggests, more and more, a redesign of those principles to include more suitable features and to assert firmly that the highest principle is the convenience of the users of the catalogue. Within this framework, the authors analyze the Italian cataloguing tradition and its relationships with the international tradition and recount the main activities towards a revision of the present Italian code – Regole italiane di catalogazione per autori RICA. The paper shows that, since the first Italian rules written by Fumagalli, special attention has been paid to the international tradition (in particular toward Panizzi’s rules). After describing the relationships among the international trends and the Italian codes of 1922, 1956 and 1979, the paper deals with the recent works of the new Commission that, since 1997, has started to revise RICA. The paper concludes by reflecting on the Italian position in the debate first on the ISBD and then on the new entity-relationship model
Guida alla biblioteca per gli studenti universitari
No full textIl volume si rivolge agli studenti universitari per offrire loro una consapevolezza crescente della funzione e del valore delle biblioteche come istituzioni culturali e luoghi fisici e ideali della memoria, scoperta, utilizzo e valorizzazione della conoscenza registrata; come spazi sociali fisici e virtuali per l’apprendimento individuale e di gruppo. Esso desidera essere un rispettoso compagno di viaggio nella comprensione e nella navigazione nell’universo bibliografico e nella fruizione dei servizi della biblioteca tradizionale e digitale.
Rinnovato e ampliato rispetto al precedente volume La biblioteca spiegata agli studenti universitari, la guida recepisce le novità in ambito biblioteconomico internazionale e italiano e aggiorna profondamente contenuti e terminologia. Il testo è redatto con un linguaggio diretto e deriva da anni di esperienza nell’insegnamento e nel lavoro concreto e quotidiano in biblioteca
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