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What Do Users Tell Us about FRBR-Based Catalogs?

2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 50; Issue: 5-7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01639374.2012.682000

1544-4554

Yin Zhang, Athena Salaba,

Semantic Web and Ontologies

Abstract FRBR user research has been the least addressed area in FRBR research and development. This article addresses the research gap in evaluating and designing catalogs based on FRBR user research. It draws from three user studies concerning FRBR-based catalogs: (1) user evaluation of three FRBR-based catalogs, (2) user participatory design of a prototype catalog based on the FRBR model, and (3) user evaluation of the resulting FRBR prototype catalog. The major findings from the user studies are highlighted and discussed for future development of FRBR-based catalogs that support various user tasks. KEYWORDS: FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)library catalogonline catalogOPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)user researchuser tasksFRBR implementationsystem evaluationsystem design Acknowledgments The research reported in this article was supported in part by a National Leadership Grant (2006–2010) from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Notes 1. Patrick Le Boeuf, "The Impact of the FRBR Model on the Future Revisions of the ISBDs: A Challenge for the IFLA Section on Cataloguing," International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control: Quarterly Bulletin of the IFLA UBCIM Programme 31, no. 1 (2002): 3–6. 2. Barbara B. Tillett, "FRBR and Cataloging for the Future," Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 39, no. 3/4 (2005): 197–205. 3. Pat Riva, "Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Related IFLA Developments," Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 33, no. 6 (2007): 7–11. 4. Martha M. Yee, "FRBRization: A Method for Turning Online Public Finding Lists into Online Public Catalogs," Information Technology and Libraries 24, no. 2 (2005): 77–95. 5. Allyson Carlyle, "Understanding FRBR As a Conceptual Model: FRBR and the Bibliographic Universe," Library Resources & Technical Services 50, no. 4 (2006): 264–273. 6. Jennifer Bowen, "FRBR: Coming Soon to Your Library?" Library Resources & Technical Services 49, no. 3 (2005): 175–188. 7. Julian E. Allgood, "Serials and Multiple Versions, or the Inexorable Trend Toward Work-Level Displays," Library Resources & Technical Services 51, no. 3 (2007): 160–178. 8. Carlyle, "Understanding FRBR As a Conceptual Model." 9. Edward T. O'Neill, "FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Application of the Entity-Relationship Model to Humphry Clinker," Library Resources & Technical Services 46, no. 4 (2002): 150–159. 10. Marie-Louise Ayres, Kent Fitch, and Kerry Kilner, "Report on the Successful AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway Implementation of the FRBR and INDECS Event Models, and Implications for Other FRBR Implementations," International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control: Quarterly Bulletin of the IFLA UBCIM Programme 32, no. 1 (2003): 8–13. 11. David Mimno, Gregory Crane, and Alison Jones, "Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog," D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 10 (2005). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october05/crane/10crane.html 12. Marie-Louise Ayres, "Case Studies in Implementing Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records [FRBR]: AustLit and MusicAustralia," The Australian Library Journal 54, no. 1 (2005): 43–54. 13. Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions (New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2009). 14. Riva, "Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Related IFLA Developments." 15. Martha M. Yee, "System-Design and Cataloging Meet the User—User Interfaces to Online Public-Access Catalogs," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 42, no. 2 (1991): 78– 98. 16. Riva, "Introducing the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Related IFLA Developments." 17. Barbara M. Wildemuth, "Evidence-Based Practice in Search Interface Design," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 57, no. 6 (2006): 825–828. 18. Tamar Sadeh, "User Experience in the Library: A Case Study," New Library World 109, no. 1/2 (2008): 7–24. 19. Allyson Carlyle and Samantha R. Becker, ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting Poster "FRBR and the 'Known-Item' Search," Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 45: 1–9. 20. Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, "What Is Next for Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records? A Delphi Study," Library Quarterly 79, no. 2 (2009): 233–255. 21. Nancy Fried Foster, Katie Clark, Kornelia Tancheva, and Rebekah Kilzer, Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the EXtensible Catalog (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2011).