Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference (한국정보관리학회:학술대회논문집)
- 1994.12a
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- Pages.147-150
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- 1994
Evaluating the Catalog Database of the National Central Library Using Trade Bibliographies
상업서지를 이용한 국립중앙도서관 목록데이타베이스 평가
Abstract
Using three existing trade bibliographies, the catalog database of the National Central Library was evaluated. A total of 8,901 books sampled are used as the basis for the measurement. Results indicate about 70% coverage for the in print books, 80% coverage for the books published in 1993, and 40% coverage for the books published in 1994. The coverage analysis according to time lag ranged from 18% to 54%. In the subjects of generalities and linguistics. low coverage was found consistently. Areas for future research are briefly examined.
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