Catalog Records Retrieved by Personal Author Using Derived Search Keys

Abstract

<p class="p1">This investigation shows that search keys derived from personal a<span class="s1">u</span>thor names possess a sufficient degree of distinctness to be employed in an <span class="s2">effi</span>cient computerized interactive index to a <span class="s3">file </span>of MARC II catalog record<span class="s1">s </span>having 167,745 personal author entries.</p>

Online access will reduce author/title catalog search failure

“…** Some of these searches could be successful done of the distribution of surname entries in replies retrieved from a database sample of books to ascertain that the average number of entries per reply will not be excessive. Landgraf & Kilgour(1973) provide a similar analysis for derived truncated keys.…”

“…Online accesses will be analyzed for retrieval of author's name by single keyword, implied Boolean searches using two words in author or title or author and title, and derived truncated search keys, in the form of (4,1,) (Landgraf & Kilgour 1973). Keyword and Boolean searches require that words submitted for searching be correctly spelled.…”

The Universal Standard Book Number (USBN): a New Method for the Construction of Control Numbers for Bibliographical Records

“…8 no. 3 Kilgour (6,7,8,9) and his associates at the Ohio College Library Center have used truncated keys derived from both personal author and titles in order to retrieve entries from a large on-line file of catalogue records. These keys were successful for the purpose they were designed for.…”

The relationship between author names and author entries in a large on‐line union catalog as retrieved using truncated keys

“…Record (entry) retrieval from large on-line catalogs has been intensively investigated (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7), and the use of derived truncated search keys has proved in operation to be an effective method of retrieving entries from nametitle and title-only catalogs (5)(6)(7). The use of search keys derived from personal author and corporate author names for retrieval from on-line bibliographic files has also been studied (8)(9).…”

“…Landgraf er al. (8) conducted a similar investigation of the retrieval characteristics of corporate author search keys and concluded that the nature of corporate author names necessitates a different form of search key from that required by personal author names. These results were based on the number of records retrieved per search key.…”