Quoting "Mitchell, Michael" <Michael.Mitchell_at_BRAZOSPORT.EDU>:
> I'd much rather have the headings link to browse lists of authorized
> headings, and ultimately resources, in our catalog (which our
> Horizon system does).
Beth Jefferson of BiblioCommons does user studies for all of their
catalog functionality, and reports that users uniformly dislike browse
lists. I know from catalog stats that they uniformly do not use them.
Unfortunately, those lists are often where catalogs put some necessary
information, like see references. The fact that those references are
there, however, does not motivate users to go to the browse. We need
to find another way to present that information to users.
kc
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> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ian Fairclough
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> Subject: [NGC4LIB] Linking headings in bib records to other resources
>
> Dear NGC4LIB readers,
>
> Jimmie Lundgren said in a recent post "Another useful navigation
> tool ... is the ability to click on headings in displayed records to
> retrieve other records with those headings." As is widely known,
> in OCLC WorldCat you can click on headings in bibliographic records
> to retrieve the authority record, if the heading has been
> "controlled." ("Control" in this context appears to be equivalent
> to "link.")
>
> Has anyone developed functionality to link headings in bibliographic
> records, not to an authority record, but to an outside source that
> provides further information? For example: A personal name heading
> might be linked to an online biographical resource about that person.
>
> - Ian
>
> Ian Fairclough
> George Mason University
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