Utility, library priorities, and cataloging policies

Banush, David; LeBlanc, Jim

doi:10.1080/14649055.2007.10766152

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“…Those arguing for speed argue that since users have no access to materials if said materials are uncataloged, users are best served by having the cataloging done as quickly as possible, even if that results in less than excellent records. 48 This debate shows no signs of being resolved any time soon.…”

Section: Speed Versus Detailmentioning

confidence: 99%

Records, Responsibility, and Power: An Overview of Cataloging Ethics

Martin

2021

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

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Ethics are principles which provide a framework for making decisions that best reflect a set of values. Cataloging carries power, so ethical decision-making is crucial. Because cataloging requires decision-making in areas that differ from other library work, cataloging ethics are a distinct subset of library ethics. Cataloging ethics draw on the primary values of serving the needs of users and providing access to materials. Cataloging ethics are not new, but they have received increased attention since the 1970s. Major current issues in cataloging ethics include the creation of a code of ethics; ongoing debate on the appropriate role of neutrality in cataloging misleading materials and in subject heading lists and classification schemes; how and to what degree considerations of privacy and selfdetermination should shape authority work; and whether or not our current cataloging codes are sufficiently user-focused.

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Section: Speed Versus Detailmentioning

confidence: 99%

Records, Responsibility, and Power: An Overview of Cataloging Ethics

Martin

2021

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

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“…Libraries failing to meet these expressed basic and even less basic needs risk becoming less relevant to both students and advanced researchers. Through a consideration of utilitarian principles libraries will be able to address these pragmatic, need-satisfaction tradeoffs in a bibliographically ethical manner [10] . Utility can mean analysis and evaluation of useful effect, as a theory of management, and one of the utility labors is to produce invisible value.…”

Section: Utility In Utility Managementmentioning

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Application of utility management based on article usage

Yan

2011

2011 International Conference on Management Science &Amp; Engineering 18th Annual Conference Proceedings

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This paper proposes utility management concept and two standard formulas in library management as application. Consumer preferences made articles to be usefulness and actual data of the effective usage were analyzed the level of spreading article usefulness. Utility function may help articles to be utility and evaluate in current management. The utility management for using the possessive articles in the utility value as the premise of the management, with the effective usage of empirical data to analyze the usefulness of continuing degree of these, and to dug the potential usefulness, to make full use of these, the maximum of use impact and management effectiveness. After goods get out the economy constituent, the action of goods gives expression in the process of utility value in utility management. The book usage factor can evaluate a kind of books within same category and the book usage half-life can evaluate all kinds of books within same category. Two formulas can evaluate different category books in the library collection.

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“…to all catalogers" (Ferris, 2008, p. 180). Banush and LeBlanc (2007) argue that user desires should drive library services, even if the users want contradictory things. How do you meet the ethical imperative to create catalogue records that meet user convenience in cataloguing environments where catalogue records are derived from shared bibliographic databases and little opportunity exists to create customized records?…”

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Social discovery tools: extending the principle of user convenience

Spiteri

2012

Journal of Documentation

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Purpose -New social discovery systems have social-type Web 2.0 features that allow users to enhance the content of bibliographic records by adding their own tags, ratings, and reviews. One of the primary underlying principles of cataloguing is that catalogue records be designed with the user in mind, i.e. user convenience. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the principle of user convenience and social discovery systems. Design/methodology/approach -A review of the literature and codes of ethics of associations of information professions was undertaken to examine: the ethical dimensions of creating catalogue records to reflect user convenience, the relationship between culture and user convenience, and how social discovery tools can facilitate the creation of interactive and flexible catalogue records that reflect the culture(s) and needs of the library communities in which they exist. Findings -Social discovery systems can address the primary barriers to creating catalogue records that meet user convenience: determining and reflecting the needs and cultural warrant of the users, and maintaining the quality and integrity of the catalogue records. Practical implications -Social discovery systems can serve as a bridge between cataloguers' desire to create accurate catalogue records that conform to accepted cataloguing standards, and their ethical imperative to ensure that these records meet the needs of the clients. Originality/value -The findings of this study pave the way for further research into how user-contributed metadata allow clients to express their needs and cultural warrant and to interact with one another and library staff.

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Utility, library priorities, and cataloging policies

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Records, Responsibility, and Power: An Overview of Cataloging Ethics

Records, Responsibility, and Power: An Overview of Cataloging Ethics

Application of utility management based on article usage

Social discovery tools: extending the principle of user convenience

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