Bodleian Library Cataloque: a review article

Reviews the publication of the Bodleian Library pre-1920 Catalogue on CD-ROM. Notes that this database provides a significant enhancement to the apparatus available to facilitate retrospective bibliographic searching by providing a key to the collections of another great UK deposit library. Outlines the work carried out over a 60 year period to improve the catalogue in various ways, focusing particularly on the great efforts made to generate computerized cataloguing records. Briefly describes the operation and searching characteristics of the database; noting that complicated searches tend to yield high recall but low precision but simple