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Use of MARC21 control field data in University Library OPACs in Karnataka: A study

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Title Use of MARC21 control field data in University Library OPACs in Karnataka: A study
 
Creator Chandrappa
Raju, Vasantha N
Harinarayana, N. S.
 
Subject MARC21
Web OPAC
Catalogue
Metadata
Cataloguing Quality
Metadata Quality
Control fields
Bibliographic standards
Bibliographic formats
 
Description 21-27
This study discusses about importance of MARC21 control field and its effective implementation in university libraries OPACs in Karnataka. The catalogue records available through library web OPACs of universities under study formed the data source for this study. The university library web OPACs which we examined in this study have used Koha ILMS. One thousand and eighty-eight (1088) records were randomly selected from the nine university library web OPACs for the study. The study examined the proper implementation of 008 control field of MARC21, which is an important data element in information retrieval. The study found that average length of a cataloguing record was 1572.78 characters. The study as also revealed that libraries web OPACs under study have given scant attention for control fields, 001 and 003 were the two tag numbers that have been used extensively. Overall the university libraries have neglected control fields data element in their OPACs. This adversely affect the data retrieval from the user point of view. The study strongly recommend that libraries should fill up the data required for control fields while cataloguing their records.
 
Date 2021-04-15T05:43:10Z
2021-04-15T05:43:10Z
2021-03
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/57115
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.68(1) [March 2021]