The Relationship of Metadata to Item Circulation

Kirkland, Laura

doi:10.1080/01639374.2012.762963

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“…Second, within LCSH key forward-looking topics of concern to environmental scientists such as Climatology, City planning, and Public health, are far removed from the main term, which may have repercussions in the discoverability of related materials. As mentioned in the Introduction, Gross & Taylor (2005) and Kirkland (2013) notably documented the importance of subject headings in item discoverability using keyword searches. In academic libraries, which is where many scientists would be searching for materials, keyword searches that match with subject headings are one of the most effective ways to find relevant materials (Gross & Taylor, 2005;Kirkland, 2013).…”

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“…As mentioned in the Introduction, Gross & Taylor (2005) and Kirkland (2013) notably documented the importance of subject headings in item discoverability using keyword searches. In academic libraries, which is where many scientists would be searching for materials, keyword searches that match with subject headings are one of the most effective ways to find relevant materials (Gross & Taylor, 2005;Kirkland, 2013). Environmental sciences materials that also fall under the category of related fields, such as City planning, may not be suggested for researchers due to hierarchical distance between these terms in the LCSH.…”

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“…They further confirmed that subject headings are essential in a follow-up study where table of contents and summaries had been added to record metadata; 27.7% of keyword search hits would be lost without subject headings (Gross et al, 2015). Additionally, in a study comparing online public access catalog (OPAC) searches and circulation of items in another academic library, keyword searches that matched with subject terms had the third highest correlation to an item then being checked out (following only keyword searches that matched the MARC title and content note fields) (Kirkland, 2013). As the existence of subject headings within item records significantly influences the success of a user search query, it follows that the accuracy and appropriateness of subject headings may also have an impact on record discoverability.…”

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“…This technique expands the subject heading analysis work of previous scholars and allows for a representation of connections between terms within a controlled vocabulary. Though the relationships between thesaurus terms have not been widely studied, the work of Gross, Taylor, and Kirkland leads us to believe that these relationships could be important and warrant their own investigation (Gross & Taylor, 2005;Gross et al, 2015;Kirkland, 2013). Second, we conduct a domain analysis of the environmental sciences by surveying conference schedules and university curricula from the field.…”

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LCSH and Environmental Science

Purcell,

Bullard

2023

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The environmental sciences are characterized by their boundless interdisciplinarity and cannot be discussed independently from other scientific fields such as ecology, engineering, and climatology. The complex nature of the discipline leads to challenges in placing it within a controlled vocabulary such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). However, the placement of a term within a thesaurus hierarchy has potential repercussions for the discoverability of materials assigned that subject heading. As the environmental sciences are rapidly expanding due to global climate change, accurate representation of this discipline within a widely used vocabulary is crucial. In this paper we employ a visual mind mapping technique to examine how the environmental sciences are represented by codified language within the LCSH, then complete a domain analysis of the field to determine how environmental science represents itself. In comparing these two analyses we determine that the LCSH subject headings do not capture the interdisciplinary nature of the field in two primary ways; the term Environmental sciences is not sufficiently connected to the terms representing other major scientific subjects essential for a foundational understanding of environmental science, and key forward-looking topics of concern to environmental scientists such as Climatology are not in direct relationships with Environmental sciences. Correcting these issues is an important task, as ensuring that researchers are able to access a full range of environmental science materials will aid in finding sustainable climate solutions for our planet.

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Section: Findings: Domain and Lcsh Comparisonmentioning

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Section: Literature and Backgroundmentioning

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LCSH and Environmental Science

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Bullard

2023

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“…In five other investigations, researchers conducted retrospective cohort studies to determine if library materials with enhanced catalogue records circulated more than those with unenhanced records (Morris, 2001;Madarash-Hill & Hill, 2004;Madarash-Hill & Hill, 2005;Tosaka & Weng, 2011;Kirkland, 2013). In each of these studies, catalogue record enhancements were associated with increased circulation rates.…”

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Enhancing Access to E-books

Harker

Sassen

2015

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2015 Harker and Sassen. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncsa/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one. AbstractObjective -The objective of the study was to determine if summary notes or table of contents notes in catalogue records are associated with the usage of e-books in a large university library.Methods -A retrospective cohort study, analyzing titles from three major collections of e-books was employed. Titles were categorized based on the inclusion of the MARC 505 note (table of contents) or MARC 520 note (summary) in the catalogue record. The usage was based on standardized reports from 2012-2013. The measures of usage were the number of titles used and the number of sections downloaded. Statistical methods used in the analysis included correlations and odd ratios (ORs). The usage measures were stratified by publication year and subject to adjust for the effects of these factors on usage.Results -The analysis indicates that these enhancements to the catalogue record increase usage significantly and notably. The probability of an e-book with one of the catalogue record enhancements being used (as indicated by the OR) was over 80% greater than for titles lacking Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 2015, 10.1 6 the enhancements, and nearly twice as high for titles with both features. The differences were greatest among the oldest and the most recently published e-books, and those in science and technology. The differences were least among the e-books published between 1998 and 2007 and those in the humanities and social sciences.Conclusion -Libraries can make their collections more accessible to users by enhancing bibliographic records with summary and table of contents notes, and by advocating for their inclusion in vendor-supplied records.

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