Tables of Contents in Library Catalogs: A Quantitative Examination of Analytic Catalogs

Poulsen, Claus

doi:10.5860/lrts.40n2.133

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“…However, due to the difficulty of obtaining books' contents, the evaluation analysis of books based on full texts is rare. Books' tables of contents are summaries of books' contents, researchers then used the tables of contents to measure the books' impacts in terms of the content dimension (Poulsen, 1996;Zhang & Zhou, 2020).…”

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Impacts towards a comprehensive assessment of the book impact by integrating multiple evaluation sources

Zhou

Zhang

2021

Journal of Informetrics

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The surge in the number of books published makes the manual evaluation methods (e.g. peer review) difficult to efficiently evaluate books. The use of books' citations and alternative evaluation metrics (e.g. library holdings, social media mentions, book reviews) can assist manual evaluation and reduce the cost of evaluation. However, most existing evaluation research was based on a single evaluation source with coarse-grained analysis, which may obtain incomprehensive or one-sided evaluation results of book impact. Meanwhile, relying on a single resource for book assessment may lead to the risk that the evaluation results cannot be obtained due to the lack of the evaluation data, especially for newly published books. Hence, this paper measured book impact based on an evaluation system constructed by integrating multiple evaluation sources. Specifically, we conducted finer-grained mining on the multiple evaluation sources, including books' internal evaluation resources (e.g. books' contents) and external evaluation resources (e.g. books' reviews, books' citations and books' usages). Various technologies (e.g. topic extraction, sentiment analysis, text classification) were used to extract corresponding evaluation metrics from the internal and external evaluation resources. Then, Expert evaluation combined with analytic hierarchy process was used to integrate the evaluation metrics and construct a book impact evaluation system. Finally, the reliability of the evaluation system was verified by comparing with the results of expert evaluation, detailed and diversified evaluation results were then obtained. The experimental results reveal that differential evaluation resources can measure the books' impacts from different dimensions, and the integration of multiple evaluation data can assess books more comprehensively.Meanwhile, the book impact evaluation system can provide personalized evaluation results according to the users' evaluation purposes. In addition, the disciplinary differences should be considered for assessing books' impacts.

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Impacts towards a comprehensive assessment of the book impact by integrating multiple evaluation sources

Zhou

Zhang

2021

Journal of Informetrics

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“…Poulsen, C. (1996). Tables of contents in library catalogs: a quantitative examination of analytic catalogs.…”

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Library Catalogue Projects

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2023

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This paper looks at a number of library projects that, together, have improved the quality of the college's library catalogue. Through a necessary project involving searching for thousands of titles on a title-by-title basis, several smaller related library catalogue projects developed resulting in overall catalogue enhancement and improvement. Ultimately, this work has resulted in an increase in usage of our physical resources. The paper also discusses the benefits of such projects to both the library and patrons and considers future related projects that could be undertaken.

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Assessing books’ depth and breadth via multi-level mining on tables of contents

Zhang

Zhou

2020

Journal of Informetrics

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Tables of Contents in Library Catalogs: A Quantitative Examination of Analytic Catalogs

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Impacts towards a comprehensive assessment of the book impact by integrating multiple evaluation sources

Impacts towards a comprehensive assessment of the book impact by integrating multiple evaluation sources

Library Catalogue Projects

Assessing books’ depth and breadth via multi-level mining on tables of contents

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