Systems and Means of Informatics
2018, Volume 28, Issue 3, pp 236-242
SOME EVALUATION OF THE RUSSIAN LIBRARIES ONLINE CATALOGS SEARCH CAPABILITIES
Abstract
The problems of organizing the information retrieval in library catalogs both in the "historical" aspect (with reference to traditional card catalogs and printed catalogs) and in the modern aspect, conditioned by the development of information technologies, Internet, and universal search engines, are under consideration. The analysis is made and the shortcomings of the existing online catalogs of various scientific libraries of the country are revealed. A number of examples of incorrect query processing by catalogs of leading libraries of Russia are considered. The conclusion is made about the necessity of a new approach to the design of scientific libraries online catalogs. These catalogs should give the user all the information he/she needs without information noise. When creating software shells of modern online catalogs, on the one hand, it is necessary to move away from the traditional library ideas about catalogs, significantly limiting their search capabilities, and on the other hand - from the logic of the universal Internet search engines, giving the user thousands of percent of information noise.
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Title
SOME EVALUATION OF THE RUSSIAN LIBRARIES ONLINE CATALOGS SEARCH CAPABILITIES
Journal
Systems and Means of Informatics
Volume 28, Issue 3, pp 236-242
Cover Date
2018-09-30
DOI
10.14357/08696527180319
Print ISSN
0869-6527
Publisher
Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Key words
electronic catalogs; Internet; bibliographic descriptions; subject headings; network technologies; search requests; information retrieval
Authors
N. E. Kalenov 
Author Affiliations
The Library for Natural Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 11/11 Znamenka Str., Moscow 119991, Russian Federation
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