Such descriptive pages should include information on content and scope, search tips, to whom the database may be restricted, the usage of passwords, etc. From each description page for a given database, a link should be made directly to a page with information on the available journal titles. It may be desirable to copy titles and holdings to a local file that could be included on the Heard library server, so that a library search engine could assist in finding journal titles. Inclusion of these websites provides avenues for users who haven t found titles of interest through other means. The committee agrees that there should be alphabetical and subject access to the listing of journals.
Subject access remains a problematic area.
General subject headings may be too broad to be useful to expert users. While the committee sees value in utilizing Library of Congress Subject Headings, we gravitate towards retaining the discipline-based approach already in place. Either discipline-based subjects or LC subjects could be utilized if catalog records form the basis for generating web pages. As mentioned in the catalog access portion of this discussion, a method has been developed by the Research Library at Los Alamos National Laboratory to automatically generate web pages from MARC records. Such an approach could potentially make the job easier, but it is unrealistic to think the process could be so automated as to not require a person to oversee the web pages.