LOLA’S CONTENTS ACCESS SERVICE

As an enhancement, LOLA offers catalog users value-added access to the tables of contents of many English and foreign-language titles represented in the catalog. Some of these contents notes are supplied by a commercial vendor, some are keyed in by library staff, and some consist of a link to a Library of Congress server. You will encounter these three types of contents information in the catalog, and it is important to remember the distinctions between them.

Several thousand titles contain contents notes which appear simply as a block of plain text within the record:

Titles and authors in these textual contents notes are keyword-searchable only. A keyword search for instrumentalism, for example, will retrieve this record, with your search terms highlighted in red:

Many thousands of records contain formatted contents notes that display hierarchically within the web browser. About 100 new records receive contents enhancement each month, and resemble the record below:

These contents notes allow for more flexible indexing in the catalog. Authors and titles in contents are keyword searchable, as they are in the other contents notes. They are also searchable as authors and titles. Authors’ names are also hotlinked to the author index. For example, if you click on the name Ward Churchill on the screen above, the catalog will display a browse screen of all the titles associated with that author:

If a search on an author’s name retrieves an entry in a contents note, the title appearing on the browse screen will be the title of the individual chapter. If, for example, we search Tribe, Laurence H., we get the following result:

On the browse screen above, entry no. 8 is the title of a chapter authored by Tribe. However, a keyword search on Laurence H Tribe results in the following browse screen:

Entry no. 22 above is the title of the book containing Laurence Tribe’s chapter. Clicking on entry no. 22 gives the following result:

Note that the keywords used in your search are highlighted in red.

The third form of contents information is a link to a server at the library of Congress.

Clicking on the third link below the title takes you to contents information:

Table of contents for Darfur and the crime of genocide / John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond.


Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog

Prologue: on our watch; 1. Darfur crime scenes; 2. The crime of crimes; 3. While criminology slept with Heather Schoenfeld; 4. Flipflopping Darfur with Alberto Palloni and Patricia Parker; 5. Eye-witnessing genocide; 6. The rolling genocide; 7. The racial spark; 8. Global shadows; Epilogue: collective R2P.

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Genocide.
Crimes against humanity.
Human rights.

Unfortunately, this type of information is not searchable in LOLA , as it resides on an external server.

Please do not hesitate to ask a Reference Librarian if you have any other questions about LOLA’s Contents Access Service.