Training Centre for Continuing Education for Librarians in the Czech Republic REGIONAL CENTER OLOMOU

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Training Centre for Continuing Education for
Librarians in the Czech RepublicREGIONAL CENTER
OLOMOUC

• SEARCH in library catalogues
• on the Web
• From secondary information to primary sources

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Information is the key to the modern age. The
new age of information offers possibilities for
the future limited only by boundaries of our
imaginations
Tony Blair, UK Prime
Minister

• Libraries - are institutions to provide
  information.
• The first duty of librarians is to know how best
  to look for information for their users and to
  help them to locate and identify materials.

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Skill in search in library catalogues provides

• help for librarians

• help for users

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help for librarians

• a) Searching library catalogues on the Web, can
  help with producing records in own catalogue.
  This can compensate for variations in cataloging
  practice among the different collections.
• OCLC - http//www.oclc.org
• Library of Congress - http//www.loc.gov/catalog
• National Library in Prague - http//www.nkp.cz
• b) Records from the Czech Union catalogue can be
  downloaded to save work with own cataloguing
• c) Other library catalogues can be used in
  selection of the new documents for the library

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help for users

• a) Searching library catalogues on the Web
  encourages librarians to be successful in their
  own library catalogue
• b) By identifying document locations for
  inter-library co-operation

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Procedure for locating a document in Czech
Republic

• Search in own library - http//tin.upol.cz
• If unsuccessful
• Search the catalogues of the near libraries in
  the town http//www.svkol.cz
• http//slan.cz
• If unsuccessful
• Search in the Czech Union catalogue CASLIN -
  http//www.nkp.cz

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Procedure for locating a document in foreign
countries

• three key technologies to support the growth
  requirements
• union catalogues
• distributed search
• cross-database linkage systems

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Union catalogues

• provide users with the ability to perform
  consistent searching of records from multiple
  institutions, in the sense that these records are
  indexed consistently. In contrast to distributed
  search approaches, a union catalogue almost
  trivially ensures consistent query interpretation
  
• a union catalogue is presented to its users as a
  high-quality, managed information access system

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Distributed search

• In the past few years the concept
  of distributed search using Z39.50 has
  been proposed as a substitute for creating a
  "static" union catalogue

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What is Z39.50?

• Z39.50 is an American National Standard that
  specifies an interoperable protocol and services
  for information search and retrieval
• The Z39.50 protocol was originally proposed
  in 1984 for search and retrieval of bibliographic
  information
• The Z39.50 protocol specifies formats and
  procedures governing the exchange of messages
  between a client and server

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Cross-database linkage systems

• Article citation (abstracting and indexing,
  or AI) databases and other secondary information
  resources (such as reviews) are now commonplace
  services offered to library patrons alongside
  access to catalogues they are available from a
  wide range of sources scattered across the
  network, from local mounts, and from CD-ROM based
  systems

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Distributed search in USA

• The Library of Congress WWW/Z39.50 Gateway
• The Library of Congress page for gateway
  access to LCs catalogue and those at
  other institutions that support Z39.50
  http//www.loc.gov/Z3950

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Distributed Search in Europe

• In Europe is not at present a page for
  gateway access to all LCs catalogue, but
  Information service for the National Libraries of
  Europe Gabriel is the official World Wide Web
  service of CENL on behalf of Europe's national
  libraries.
• http//www.bl.uk./gabriel

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Distributed Search in Czech Republic

• National Library in Prague solves in
  cooperation with search and university
  libraries project of Ministry of Culture -
  gateway access to LCs catalogue in Czech
  republic for searching documents in different
  automations systems.

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Conclusion

• The library has the current and changing role
  and function in the higher education academic
  environment. It took a positive stance on funding
  and support within institutions and emphasized
  the need for strategic planning, cooperation and
  resource sharing.
• Its particular influence has been in
  highlighting the central role of library and
  information services in the new teaching and
  learning and electronic environment.

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David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education
and Employment, 1998

• To cope with rapid change and the challenge
  of the information and communication age, we must
  ensure that people can return to learning
  throughout their lives. We cannot rely on a small
  elite, no matter how highly educated or highly
  paid. Instead, we need the creativity, enterprise
  and scholarship of all our people.