Leazer, G.H.; Rohdy, M.: ¬The bibliographic control of monographs : a review and baseline study (1995)
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- Abstract
- The acquisition of foreign research materials has been an important activity of US university libraries from the early 19th century to the present day. Assesses the extent of bibliographic control over foreign published books and reviews previous evaluations of national bibliographic utility hit rates and quality assessment studies of bibliographic records. These reviews suggest that the bibliographic control of general research books is better than the bibliographic control of foreign research books. However, the previous studies' varying sampling periods and techniques necessitate a baseline study to confirm the asserted difference of these 2 groups os books. Results of the baseline study reported here conforms a lack of bibliographic control for a substanbtial portion of foreign books, the presence of LCC, and the level of bibliographic description shows that the quality of bibliographic records for foreign books is lower than the quality of records for domestic books
