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Unit 5: Library Catalogues

8. Cost-effectiveness is typically expressed as an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER). Notes
9. A 1996 study of the cost-effectiveness of over 500 life-saving medical interventions found
that the median cost per intervention was $42,000 per life-year saved.

5.3 Summary

• The card catalog was a familiar sight to library users for generations, but it has been effec-
tively replaced by the online public access catalog (OPAC).
• The latest attempt to describe a library catalog’s goals and functions was made in 1998
with Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) which defines four user tasks:
find, identify, select, and obtain.
• Cataloging (or cataloguing) rules have been defined to allow for consistent cataloging of vari-
ous library materials across several persons of a cataloging team and across time.
• Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is a form of economic analysis that compares the relative
costs and outcomes (effects) of two or more courses of action. Cost-effectiveness analysis is
distinct from cost-benefit analysis, which assigns a monetary value to the measure of effect.
• Cost effectiveness analysis is also applied to many other areas of human activity, including
the economics of automobile usage.

5.4 Keywords

IFLA : International Federation of Library Association.
ISBD : International Standard Bibliographic Description.

5.5 Review Questions

1. What is the shelf list catalog?
2. Define the systematic catalog.
3. Which is the first ever cataloging?
4. Explain the types of card catalogue.
5. Write in detail library sorting method.
6. Discuss in detail library catalogues.
7. Explain the Charles Ammi Cutter bibliographic system.
8. Examine the cost effectiveness analysis.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Charles Ammi Cutter 2. Callimachus
3. Nomenclator of Leiden University Library 4. (a)
5. (a) 6. True 7. True
8. True 9. False.

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