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The article offers information on an online program hosted by the Catalog Management Interest Group during the ALA Core Interest Group Week. The program featured presentations, of which discussed the lack of call numbers on ebooks and its impact on resource discoverability. The presenters analyzed ebook collections at Binghamton University and compared them with a different knowledge base, finding that a significant number of records lacked a Library of Congress Classification.

This essay introduces audiation , a new concept and keyword for literary criticism and sound studies. I take the term from music education, where it is used to describe the faculty by which we "hear" in the mind, either through recall or in response to the cues provided by written notation. This terminology facilitates a focus on the mental soundscapes text can convey, on the range of nonlexical and nonvocal sounds written language can represent and communicate, and on its capacity to create mental experiences of sound that exceed the possibilities of physical speech and even the acoustic worlds available to our physical senses. Attention to audiation, I argue, enables attention to how we hear texts rather than how we speak them. Or, framed differently, audiation is to hearing as interior voice is to speaking: if the concept of speech centers the reader as an active subject and their production of a voice or voices, then attention to audiation offers instead the potential to center that reader as a listener, an auditor, an object addressed or interpellated by a text. Briefly reviewing and reconsidering the sound-related vocabularies that typically attach to descriptions of reading in general, and of reading lyric in particular, I model possible affordances of audiation for literary criticism as well as for sound studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study provides a full edition and commentary of the three glossaries in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Barlow 35, fol. 57r–v. These glossaries, which were first partly edited and discussed by Liebermann (1894), are comprised of excerpts from Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary arranged by subject. The selection of material from the two Ælfrician works witnesses to the interests of the glossator. The first glossary in Barlow 35 collects Latin grammatical terms and verbs followed by their Old English equivalents. The second glossary is drawn from the chapter on plant names of Ælfric's Glossary, with interpolations from other chapters of the same work. This glossary also features twelfth-century interlinear notations, which seem to have a metatextual function. The third glossary combines excerpts from Ælfric's Glossary with verbs derived from the Grammar. Liebermann transcribed only part of the glosses and gave a brief commentary on the glossaries as well as parallels with Zupitza's (1880) edition of Ælfric's Grammar and Glossary; hence the need for a new edition, which is provided in the present study, along with a comprehensive discussion of the glossaries and a reassessment of the correspondences concerning their Ælfrician sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Optimal shelflisting invites profit maximization to become sensitive to the ways in which purchasing decisions are order-dependent. We study the computational complexity of the corresponding product arrangement problem when consumers are either rational maximizers, use a satisficing procedure, or apply successive choice. The complexity results we report are shown to crucially depend on the size of the top cycle in consumers' preferences over products and on the direction in which alternatives on the shelf are encountered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Notations are systems of symbols that can be combined according to syntactical rules to represent meanings in a specialized domain. In knowledge organization, they are systems of numerals, letters and punctuation marks associated to a concept that mechanically produce helpful sequences of them for arranging books on shelves, browsing subjects in directories and displaying items in catalogues. Most bibliographic classification systems, like Dewey Decimal Classification, use a positional notation allowing for expression of increasingly specific subjects by additional digits. However, some notations like that of Bliss Bibliographic Classification are purely ordinal and do not reflect the hierarchical degree of a subject. Notations can also be expressive of the syntactical structure of compound subjects (common auxiliaries, facets etc.) in various ways. In the digital media, notation can be recorded and managed in databases and exploited to provide appropriate search and display functionalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The limitations of the enumerative nature of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) are compensated by the existence of the auxiliary tables, also known as facets, which provide flexibility to and enhance the expressiveness of the classification as a whole. Their use makes new notations possible through synthesis, avoiding as a result further subdividing and enumeration of concepts. This way, new compound numbers are created with a direct impact on the flexibility of the classificatory structure. The paper aims to focus on the UDC auxiliary tables and their contribution to improved expressiveness of the subjects represented by the UDC main class numbers. Our purpose is to demonstrate that despite the limitations of an analytico-synthetic classification system designed more than one hundred years ago, successive developments of the scheme along with the consistent updating of its functionalities enables it to be successfully used in modern information retrieval systems both from bibliographic and non-bibliographic domain. The impact of these features on subject retrieval are explored in the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I argue that cosmological methods, and the debates they inspired, were a major source of innovation in phonological scholarship during the late Ming. Sixteenthand seventeenth-century scholars strove to document the scope of possible sounds existing in the universe. Realizing the Chinese script was insufficient to fully record them, they explored new notation systems to comprehensively describe sound. Although competing contemporaneous approaches called for analyzing phonology according to regional or historical differences, Ming cosmologists asserted a significant alternative that they believed overcame limits of place and time. This case study suggests a need to rethink the impact of Ming scholars on Chinese intellectual history and on the history of writing in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PHerc 1669, formerly identified with book 5, book 7 and book 10 of Philodemus' On Rhetoric , actually transmits book 20. The book number – a clear Κ – is still legible in the final title of the papyrus. This means that On Rhetoric was in precisely or at least 20 books, depending on whether or not PHerc 1669 is to be considered the final book of the work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past 10 years, the research community has produced a significant number of design notations to represent security properties and concepts in a design artifact. These notations are aimed at documenting and analyzing security in a software design model. The fragmentation of the research space, however, has resulted in a complex tangle of different techniques. Hence, practitioners are confronted with the challenging task of scouting the right approach from a multitude of proposals. Similarly, it is hard for researchers to keep track of the synergies among the existing notations, in order to identify the existing opportunities for original contributions. This paper presents a systematic literature review that inventorizes the existing notations and provides an in-depth, comparative analysis for each. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The prescription administered to the woman suspected of adultery (Num. 5.11–31) remains an enigma as long as ‭רפע‬, the essential component of the potion, is understood as dust or earth. The whole procedure is clarified, however, once ‭רפע‬ is identified as copper ore, given that the symptoms of copper intoxication fit the main and side effects of the potion precisely as evoked in this text. The Sotah prescription therefore has nothing to do with ordeal, magic practices or psychosomatic effects. It is a set of instructions administered during the early stages of pregnancy when doubts arise around paternity. The presence of copper ore in the sanctuary, together with the discrepancy between this practice and the Israelite laws and ethics addressing adultery, suggests that the Sotah prescription was borrowed from the Kenite metalworking religious context. Furthermore, its incongruence with the Israelite way of life reveals that this prescription was inserted ‘as is' in the book of Numbers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), being a predecessor of Colon Classification (CC), had impacts on CC in various ways - directly as well as indirectly. But surprisingly CC too made an impact on UDC in various ways during its revision process. The paper discusses how these two classification schemes have influenced each other in different spheres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the difference between a 'notebook'-edition and an edition of 'notebook- notations' and presents the project 'Genetic-critical and annotated hybrid-edition of Theodor Fontane's notebooks' as a 'notebook'-edition. The edition of Fontane's 67 notebooks is being realized by the Theodor Fontane Research Centre at the University of Gottingen in cooperation with the Gottingen State University Library. The genetic-critical hybrid edition will for the first time collect, transcribe, mark up, comment and publish all Fontane notebook writings. Whereas previous part-publications mainly followed content criteria, the conceptual focus of this edition is on the entire compass of the transmission in all its material and medial complexity. The notebook-edition consists of two complementary parts that by gradation visualize the materiality and enable document-oriented, chronological and teleological access, as well as establish readable and referenceable text and commentary: as an open-access digital edition, where every notebook entry is presented synoptically as a digital image and diplomatic transcription, as well as an historically-critically edited text with apparatus and commentary, and in the book edition, to be published with De Gruyter, which will consist of the historically-critically edited text version with apparatus and commentary. The philological working processes towards the edition are significantly supported by digital methods and the deployment of the TextGrid virtual research environment, whose services and tools are adapted and modified to meet the complex demands of the notebook edition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Notation is a fundamental component of a classification scheme, especially library and bibliographic classification. However, notation is often considered an afterthought or auxiliary to classification itself. With the advances in technology, classification systems, including their notation, must evolve. What, if any, possibilities lie beyond alphanumeric characters and symbols? The author explores the possible use of color as classificatory notation by looking at the traditional qualities of notation and the classificatory needs it must accommodate, various theories and standards of color, and their possible applications to classification notation. Theoretical and practical implications are considered and discussed, as well as larger implications for notation and classification overall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Library catalogues are significant surrogates of the documents in the library collection. This paper first describes the conceptual model of FRBR. Then it shifts its focus and goes on to describe the Colon Book Numbers of S.R. Ranganathan. Subsequently, it explores a symbiotic relationship between Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Colon Book Numbers. The study reveals that many of the features of FRBR are already present in Colon Book Numbers. The paper concludes that catalogues adopting FRBR model can go for a full-fledged book numbering system like Colon Book Numbers, so that, a simple call number search can also bring together all the entity-relationships in the retrievals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Tutt Library at Colorado College is developing a portfolio of library applications for use by patrons and library staff. Developed under an iterative and incremental agile model, these single-use HTML5 applications target multiple devices while using Bootstrap and Django to deliver fast and responsive interfaces to underlying FRBR datastores running on Redis, an advanced NoSQL database server. Two types are delineated: applications for access and discovery, which are available to everyone; and productivity applications, which are primarily for library staff to administer and manage the FRBR-RDA records. The access portfolio includes Book Search, Article Search, Call Number, and Library Hours applications. The productivity side includes an Orders App and a MARC Batch application for ingesting MARC records as FRBR entities using RDA Core attributes. When a critical threshold is reached, the Tutt Library intends to replace its legacy ILS with this library application portfolio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes similarities and differences between Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) entities and their representation in the Colon Classification call numbers. Dealing with lack of organization in library shelves and in the lists of bibliographic records resulting from users’ searches in our present online catalogs, the article discusses the chance to organize bibliographic resources by FRBR entities using the model of the facet formula provided for call numbers in Colon Classification and by means of relevant, ready, and useable extant data. Main results of this analysis are: correspondences between FRBR entities and categories expressed in Ranganathan's bibliographic system can be found; a sound but not completely FRBRized bibliographic arrangement can be reached by call numbers also in catalogs not structurally capable to satisfy the FRBR model; in Ranganathan's classified catalog1 semantic and semiotic cataloging are perfectly integrated, giving access to the bibliographic universe as a whole; facet formula for call numbers could be used as an identifying device. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At Yale University Library (YUL), recorded reference transactions revealed that after finding a book in the catalog patrons had difficulty knowing how to use the call number to find the book on the shelf. The Library created a mobile service to help locate the call number in the library stacks. From any call number of a book in Sterling Memorial Library at YUL, a map will be displayed which highlights that call number's general area on a floor in the stacks. YUL introduced the mapping application in Yufind, a catalog in place at Yale since 2008 which is based on Vufind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Brigham Young University''s Harold B. Lee Library conducted a time-task cost study to compare the cost and processing time of shelf-ready books to non-shelf-ready books to determine if it could better use its human resources and if it should expand the use of shelf-ready to include its approval books. The results showed that shelf-ready was, on average, 5.7% cheaper, took 47% less processing time, and arrived on the shelves 33 sooner than books processed in-house. Based on the results of the study, the library moved its approval books to the shelf-ready program and was able to reallocate catalogers tasks. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Libraries and information centres use often multiple classification schemes for organizing their collections. In Canadian full depository libraries government publications can be organized in collections using a government publishing office's own notation, knowledge organization notation, or other notational scheme designed especially for government publications. Provenance-based schemes such as CODOC are attractive for their universality and for work-related purposes that may be influenced by financial challenges. However, libraries that use multiple notations for government publications may open the potential for intellectual disruption to information retrieval practices in either physical or virtual browsing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the advantage and disadvantage of electronic (e)book in 2010. It mentions that ebooks' lack of uniformity page numbers makes it hard to refer to material in academic writing. However, ebooks permit digital processing of text that should be a boon for readers and researchers and with instant search, concordances throughout multiple books can be produced.

This article explores ways that notation in Table 5 Ethnic and National Groups of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system can be used to extend subject access to works about racially mixed people beyond that provided by the rules for constructing standard DDC numbers. The proposed approach makes use of the new 083 field (Additional Dewey Decimal Classification Number) in the MARC Bibliographic Format and techniques developed for DeweyBrowser beta v2.0 by OCLC Research, especially tag clouds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information about subject indexing in library and information science. A software trend enabling users to contribute content attributes to keywords is compared with developments in subject indexing, which uses systematically assigned controlled terms and a standardized notational system. Related topics such as faceted navigation and classification systems, including Dewey-Decimal Classification (DDC), are discussed.

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This article describes the management of periodical collections at the Centre de ressources Alain-Grandbois. The periodical collections and physical space devoted to their shelving are recorded with the help of a management tool. A rigorous inventory is ensured by an efficient method that allows for the close monitoring of shelf space and retention periods. The methodology used is based on a system that records what is added to the collection and what is borrowed from it in order to determine what space is actually required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reusing a previously developed and tested software component is the key to improve the quality and productivity/of the software. Searching a software from a software library with an intent to reuse it is similar to searching a book from a library. Locating a book or document in library may not be that difficult as searching a reusable component in a software library. The main challenge in reusing software component lies in the retrieval and selection of the appropriate component that would need no or least adaptation from a software component library. Book can be searched on title, authors or some keywords, but these features are not sufficient for searching the required functionality in a component library. Using formal specifications to represent software components facilitates the determination of reusability of the software component, The functionality of the software, and the welldefined syntax of formal language makes processing amenable to automation. In this paper, a hybrid model based on natural language and formal specifications using K-nn technique has been discussed. Benefits of both formal methods and natural language have been exploited for the retrieval of reusable software components. Existing components have been weighted according to their degree of similarity on the basis of certain attributes to the required component. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A book number takes shelf arrangement of documents to a point where classification per se cannot. Class number alone is not able to uniquely individualise a document on the library shelves. The function of a book number starts from where that of the class number ends. An author number also brings together all the books by one author in one specific subject. A chronological book number will clearly portray the development of a subject over a given period. Book numbers are indispensable for a shelflist. The National Library (NL) of India at Kolkata has a collection of about 3 million documents. For organizing its contents it uses the DDC and the shelf arrangement is by Cutter's three figure author table. For Indian names it uses its home-made author table described here. Though the National Library table is designed especially for Indian names across all religions and regional cultures, yet its use outside the National Library has not been reported mostly due lack of marketing. Since 1961 the Indian cultural names have undergone many changes. The need is to revise and update the table to reflect the current culture and new authors across India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 1980, most of the functions of the card catalog have been gradually incorporated into the online catalog. In contrast, the traditional shelflist has fallen into obscurity as retrospective conversion projects have been completed. Most of the functions of the traditional shelflist have been incorporated into the online catalog: nevertheless, the online catalog still does not provide all the functions that the traditional shelflist used to perform. This paper introduces how Washington State University Libraries set up an online history file to incorporate some of the functions of the traditional shelflist into their online catalog. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This note generalizes the notion of dissipative solutions to non-isotropic degenerate parabolic balance laws introduced in [3]. The new definition allows us to use a larger class of test functions than the one used in [3] to study the equivalence between dissipative and entropy solutions. As a result, it is possible to study general relaxation-type approximations (limits). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With more than a million books published each year, thousands of books will be cataloged and shelved in libraries. Assigning book numbers efficiently and balancing the distribution of main entries over the LC Cutter Table entries have become critical issues for shelving later entries in libraries using the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) system. This paper aims to explore and discuss the problems in assigning book numbers (Cutter numbers) to printed materials under the LCC System. The existing problems have blocked or invaded the usage of some numbers and letters ruled by the LC Cutter Table. The reason is either not following the LC Cutter Table well, or confusion in using the Table. Directly downloading the LC record to the local database adds more questions to the issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Everyone who has worked with qualitative interview data has run into problems with transcription error, even if they do the transcribing themselves. A thoughtful, accurate, reliable, multilingual transcriptionist with a quick turnaround time is worth her or his weight in gold. In this article, the authors examine some transcription circumstances that seem to bring about their own consistent set of problems. Based on their experiences, the authors examine the following issues: use of voice recognition systems; notation choices; processing and active listening versus touch typing; transcriptionist effect; emotionally loaded audiotaped material; class and/or cultural differences among interviewee, interviewer, and transcriptionist; and some errors that arise when working in a second language. The authors offer suggestions for working with transcriptionists as part of the qualitative research team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the various ways in which the earliest systematic collections of archeological source material, both handmade and printed, dealt with the problem of notation. Need to devise notation systems that would preserve the crucial features from copy to copy with minimal corruption and misunderstanding; Scribal error; Concept of the printed syllogue; Devices of the antiquarian manuscripts.

Investigates on the effects the shelf classification of fiction had on the ways how library clients use the library's stock of fiction in Kajaani, Finland. Definition of shelf classification of fiction; Examples and experiments of shelf classification of fiction; Loaning of fiction in the libraries that took part in the experimentation.

It is generally agreed that writing was invented in Sumer, ancient Mesopotamia and present-day Iraq, and spread from there to other parts of the Middle East such as Egypt. The article reviews an archaic system of notation using tokens that is the direct progenitor of Sumerian writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses formal systems of subject classification when arranging books in libraries. Topics include internal arrangement within each class of books, the history of book numbers and the rules for their use, and the Hebrew Union College Library being the one that considered the book title as main entry.

Focuses on a study that examined the use of notation for the subject retrieval of files in libraries. Symbols used in the notation; Background on the organization of library materials; Implications of results for the employment of notation.

Objective - To explore how undergraduate students interpret Library of Congress call numbers when trying to locate books. Design - Multiple case study. Setting - A public, residential university in Illinois, United States of America. Subjects - 11 undergraduate students (10 upper division, 1 freshman; no transfer students included). Methods - A qualitative approach was adopted, with a multiple case study design used to facilitate the collection of data from several sources. Students were recruited for the study via convenience and snowball sampling. Participants who volunteered were interviewed and requested to complete a task that required them to organize eight call numbers written on index cards in the correct order. Interviewees were also asked about any instruction they had received on interpreting call numbers, and their experiences locating materials in other libraries and bookstores. Responses were then coded using colours to identify common themes. Main Results - The study reported that there was little correlation between the students' own estimation of their ability to locate materials and their actual performance in the index card test. Five students who reported that they could find materials 75-100% of the time performed poorly in the test. Of the 11 participants, only 4 ordered the cards correctly, and in 1 such case this was by fortune rather than correct reasoning. Of these, three self-reported a high level of confidence in their ability to locate material, whilst one reported that he could only find the material he was looking for approximately half of the time. Of the seven students who incorrectly ordered the cards, no two students placed their cards in the same order, indicative that there is no clear pattern in how students misinterpret the numbers. During the interview process, five students stated that they experienced more difficulty locating books in bookstores compared with the library. Conclusion - Based on the findings of the study, the authors recommend several interventions which could help students to locate material within the library, namely through improved signage in shelving areas including the listing of subjects and colour-coding, as well as integrating training on understanding call numbers into subject-based instruction. The possibility of using online directional aids such as QR codes and electronic floor maps is also suggested as a strategy to help orient students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the history of the literary journal "Decant." List of donors contributed money needed to publish the first issue of the journal; Amount of the journal's first three-issue volumes; Notation of the journal's editorial titled "By Way of Introduction."

The article focuses on the Blackbook, a call-number list project launched by the Andrews University's Music Materials Center of the James White Library. It states that the list founded by librarian Elaine Waller aims to ensure the cataloging of sound recordings. The article also discusses the quality of work and dedication of student workers in the University.