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A bibliography, or a list of works, is complied upon a common principle such as authorship, subject, or country of publication (Bopp & Smith, 1991). This assignment will explore a specific bibliography type: library catalogues. Library catalogues are lists of materials held in a library’s collection. Western Libraries catalogue and the University of Toronto Libraries catalogue will be examined in this assignment. The strengths and weakness of each catalogue will be presented and the value of the teen suicide collection will be commented on. To judge the strength and weakness of each catalogue, authority, purpose, scope, and organization will be, as Katz suggests, considered (Katz, 1997). Each catalogue features a high degree of authority and credibility. Both are associated with the respected and prestigious institutions, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto. Via the authority conveyed, the content within each catalogue is assessed to be trustworthy, reliable, and accurate. Each catalogue features easily identifiable and concrete purposes. Both provide student, staff, and faculty of each institution access to the materials of each collection. The catalogues support the academic and research activities of the members of both universities. Broad scope is featured by each catalogue. Through the catalogues, library users have access to the collection of both libraries, and detailed marc information about items in the collection. Organization ranks high in each catalogue. Both feature clean, well designed, and attractive catalogues. Both feature simple search boxes with advanced search options, options to search for articles, databases, journals, and search limiters. Much information is... ... middle of paper ... ... neither catalogue actually evaluates the items in their catalogues. Providing information for someone else to evaluate an item does not make a library catalogue an evaluative tool. Works Cited Bopp, R. E. & Smith, L. C. (1991). Reference and Information Services. Colorado: Libraries Unlimited. Evans, G. E. & Saponaro, M. A. (2005). Developing Library and Information Center Collections, 5th ed. Greenwood Village, CO: Libraries Unlimited. Katz, W. A. (1997). Introduction to Reference Work: Volume 1 Basic Information Services, 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. University of Toronto Libraries. (2012). University of Toronto Libraries. Retrieved from http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/ Western Libraries. (2012). Welcome Western Libraries. Retrieved from http://www.lib.uwo.ca/

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