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- Title
Quality bibliographic records for quality services. Building a shared catalogue at the ELTE University Library Service.
- Authors
BODA, Gáborné; KÖNTÖS, Nelli; SZÉKELYNÉ TÖRÖK, Tünde
- Abstract
The Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Library Service, Budapest includes more than 50 libraries at faculties, institutes and departments, as well as independent ones. Staff members of this university library network, the authors, investigated the relationship of cataloguing and management tools and methods, as well as the effect of the quality management approach on library activities in this respect. They attributed great importance to cataloguing, as it is closely related to library work processes, and thus determines the quality of library services in general. In their view catalogues can be consistent and standardized only 1. if related national guidelines keep pace with international trends, 2. if regulations at different levels fit together, and 3. if there are no unregulated areas. The article describes the shared cataloguing practice and its problems at the ELTE University Library Service. Among the issues raised are: standardization, bibliographic data services, common communication format, exchange of records etc. The authors emphasize that there is an urgent need for unifying cataloguing works at the national level in order to improve quality and to manage resources effectively. (The study was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Hungarian Librarians in the Section of Bibliography in 2015.).
- Subjects
BUDAPEST (Hungary); LIBRARY standards; TOTAL quality management; CATALOGING; LIBRARY institutes &; workshops
- Publication
Library Review / Konyvtari Figyelo, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 2, p166
- ISSN
0023-3773
- Publication type
Article