Bibliographic records in an online environment
@article{Cossham2013BibliographicRI, title={Bibliographic records in an online environment}, author={Amanda F. Cossham}, journal={Inf. Res.}, year={2013}, volume={18} }
Introduction. The IFLA functional requirements for bibliographic records model has had a major impact on cataloguing principles and practices over the past fifteen years. This paper evaluates the model in the light of changes in the wider information environment (especially to information resources and retrieval) and in information seeking behaviour online, rather than in terms of library catalogues per se. Approach. Using a critical analytic approach, it reviews a range of literature across…
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