Online public access catalogs in argentine libraries with law collections

User interfaces of web based online public access catalogs (OPACs) of Argentine libraries with law collections are studied to provide a diagnosis of the situation of bibliographic description, subject analisis, help messages and bibliographic display. A cuali-cuantitative methodology is adopted and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Barber, Elsa, Pisano, Silvia, Romagnoli, Sandra, Parsiale, Verónica, Pedro, Gabriela de, Gregui, Carolina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Repositorio:Encontros Bibli
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/294
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2006v11n22p91
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Catálogos en línea de acceso público
Colecciones de biblioteca
Derecho
Argentina
Online public access catalogs
Library collections
Law
Descripción
Sumario:User interfaces of web based online public access catalogs (OPACs) of Argentine libraries with law collections are studied to provide a diagnosis of the situation of bibliographic description, subject analisis, help messages and bibliographic display. A cuali-cuantitative methodology is adopted and a checklist of systems functions created by Hildreth (1982), updated according to recent advances, has been used as data collection tool. The resulting 38 closed questions checklist has allowed to observe the frequency of appearance of the basic functions of four areas: Area I – operational control; Area II, subdivided in search formulation control and access points; Area III – output control and IV – user assistance: information and instruction. The study is carried out on the information obtained from 43 information units. Results show that most of the OPACs surveyed are in an initial implementation step and do not respond to users´needs