Federal documents in the online catalog: Problems,options, and the future |
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| Authors: | Jan Swanbeck |
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| Institution: | Jan Swanbeck is Head, Documents Division, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A &M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA |
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| Abstract: | The Government Printing Office Cataloging Tapes appear at first glance to be a cost-effective and efficient method for adding bibliographic records for U.S. documents to an online catalog. However, errors and inconsistencies in these tapes compounded by the lack of documentation make it virtually impossible to load them directly into an online catalog. Currently the only options available for libraries wishing to make use of these tapes are: to purchase them from a commercial cataloging service, to catalog documents one at a time using a bibliographic utility, or to contract with a commercial data base vendor which offers access to the GPO Cataloging Tapes. |
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