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Double Praise for Revealweb

Reveal Bulletin No.3 May 2004

Reveal Bulletin No.2 Feb 2004

Reveal Bulletin No.1 May 2003

REVEAL: The National Database of Resources in Accessible Formats

As part of the Library and Information Commission and Share the Vision programme to improve library and information services for visually impaired people, UKOLN was commissioned to review the role of a national union database of resources in accessible formats and to make a technical specification of the data elements required. A report was submitted to the Steering Committee in January 2000 and the recommendations accepted. The full text of the report and an accompanying briefing paper are available in Word7 and pdf formats.

A feasibility study was carried out to develop a managment structure, business plan and  technical system  specification for the Reveal database. The study was funded through a grant awarded by the British Library Co-operation and Partnership Programme and took place between May and September 2000 [press release]. An edited version of the report and an accompanying study evaluation are available in Word7 and in pdf format.

Catalogue Quality

• Cat-Assess: To assist the library community in making performance measurement of services, UKOLN has developed Cat-Assess as a method for measuring the quality of records in a catalogue. The Cat-Assess pages provide full instructions for carrying out the assessment. The method can be used to assess whole catalogues or parts of catalogues such as specific collections or types of materials. UKOLN has developed Cat-Assess in collaboration with Essex Libraries and with Owen Massey, who carried out the pilot study as his dissertation project at the Library and Information Studies department at Loughborough University.
• A case study of record quality in a shared cataloguing database (1993) : In 1992-93 UKOLN carried out an assessment of the quality of records in the BLCMP union catalogue by analysing the edits made to records on the database.

Retrospective conversion

Full Disclosure

During 1999, UKOLN and the National Council on Archives carried out a study for a national programme of restrospective catalogue conversion.  A report was submitted to the commissioning group (the British Library, the Library and Information Commission and the Library and Information Co-operation Council) in June 1999. The recommendations were accepted and a Full Disclosure Implementation Group was set up in September 1999 to act as the initial coordinating focus of the programme. This group has represention from the archives and museums domains in addition to representation from national, higher education and public and other non-HE libraries.

Making the Most of Our Libraries

Two studies carried out by Philip Bryant have identified a need for a national strategy regarding retrospective conversion of library catalogues. The text of the combined report on both these studies is available.

• A national retrospective catalogue conversion programme for UK higher education libraries: a study of its justification and implications.
• Retrospective catalogue conversion for libraries in the UK other than those funded by the Higher Education Funding Councils.

The abstract is available of an article about the study, Retrospective catalogue conversion: a national study and a discussion of selected literature, published in Libri Vol.46(1) March 1996 pp16-24.

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