Animal Health Library Bibliography Interface

Suzanne Fricke, DVM, MLIS Defining animal health librarian literature while redefining bibliographies in the modern worldVicki Croft, AHIPCindy Ellis, IT Specialist

Carabao, Microsoft PP, 5/2/12

1Bibliographer

Bibliographers describe scholarly publications so that bibliography users interested in a given topic will be led to relevant source documents. Describing particular documents will involve both identifying the facts of their publication (providing bibliographical citations) and defining their subject content and form.Modern Language Association (MLA) http://www.mla.org/bib_bibliographers2Searching PubMed?Search3How do you organize? Alphabetically, chronologically, topically, or by color?

Image http://farm1.staticflickr.com/13/13952912_ad8c6fd4a4_o_d.jpg4van der Westhuizen EE. African rhinoceros bibliography. Pretoria, South Africa: University of Pretoria Academic Information Service; 1994.

5Faceted Classification

6Objective:

(Simple version)

Migrate a professional collection combining scholarly and pragmatic resources to software that allows searching by multiple standard bibliographic and user-centered fields

One Way Microsoft PP 3/3/137

Objective:(Complicated version)

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Link to full textAvailable worldwideIncorporate a thesaurus, OR Combine keyword searching with controlled and visible indexingImage http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swindon-Magic-Roundabout.svg8Methods Domain analysis Thesaurus Development Source Alert Bibliographic Standards Evaluate Software Customize Software

9Software Selection Content Management Content DM + Thesaurus - Ease of Import

Reference Management - Thesaurus + Ease Import

10Reference Management SoftwareType of Reference Management SoftwareExamplesCost and Ability to Share WorldwideAbility to CustomizeProprietaryEndNote, RefWorks, Reference Manager-Limited + EndNote & Reference ManagerWeb-based, browser-basedZotero, Mendeley+-Open-source, platform independentrefbase++11Result

12Bumps in the roadDistinguish format vs. document typeInteroperability with other systemsDiacritics Where to link ISBN - WorldCat xISBN, LibraryThingJournal acronyms Genamics Journal Seek http://journalseek.netFriendly interface

Dirt road Microsoft PP 3/3/1313

Logo by Laura Rey14Conclusion and FutureAnimal Health Libraries Librarians & Librarianship Bibliographic Database

http://refbase.wsulibs.wsu.edu/AHLLL

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