Managing electronic information: web page, subject folder, and onweb catalog

摘要

Never before have librarians had so many concerns as they presently do about organizing pieces of information that come in Web pages. Traditionally, librarians cope with information that exists in bound volumes, such as books and magazines. Nowadays, they have to organize information that is not only new in its format but also fragmented in the way it is packaged and accessed. This presentation describes ideas for organizing and classifying Internet resources on an individual library Web site with the concern for developing a sub- or mini-catalog of information resources on the World Wide Web, based on a collection policy appropriate to the libary's objectives. An On Web catalog is defined to distinguish the catalog of print information resources and the catalog of hypertext Web resources. In order to reduce the amount of work for cataloging description, a subject folder is introduced to hold Web pages dealing with same subject.