Full Description
"The new edition of this essential work has raised the bar on an already excellent text about cataloguing." - Library Journal, Starred Review
The fifth edition of the classic Cataloging and Classification covers the analysis and representation of methods used in describing, organizing, and providing access to resources made available in or through libraries. Since the last edition, there have new developments in cataloging, with the introduction of the IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) and the new, official RDA, following the 3R Project.
This text presents the essence of library cataloging and classification in terms of four basic functions: descriptive cataloging, authority work, subject access, and classification. Within this framework, content has been re-organized, all chapters have been rewritten, and new chapters have been introduced to incorporate the changes that have occurred during the interval between the four and fifth editions. In each part, the historical development and underlying principles of the retrieval mechanism at issue are treated first, because these are considered essential to an understanding of cataloging and classification. Discussion and examples of provisions in the standards and tools are then presented to illustrate the operations covered in each chapter.
Divided into seven parts—a general overview; record production and structure, encoding formats, and metadata records; RDA (original and official); subject access and controlled vocabularies; the organization of library resources; encoding & records of bibliographic and authority data; and cataloging ethics--this book includes lists of the standards and tools used in the preparation and processing of cataloging records covered, lists of RDA elements, and sample records.
Its companion website with interactive learning activities and supplementary materials located at catclassintro.org make it a true multimedia tool.
Contents
CONTENTS
Preface
PART ONE Introduction
1. Information Resource Management: Description, Access, Organization
2. Foundations, Principles, Conceptual Models, and Standards of Resource Description
PART TWO Record Production and Structure, Encoding Formats, and Metadata Records
Standards and Tools
3. Records and Encoding Schemas
4. Metadata Schemas
PART THREE Resource Description and Access: Foundations and Standards
5. Foundations of Resource Description
6. Resource Description and Access (RDA)- Original: Basics; Identifying Manifestations, Items, Works, and Expressions
7. Resource Description and Access (RDA) - Original: Agents, Nomen, Place, Timespan; Recording Relationships
8. Resource Description and Access (RDA) - Official: Basics; Describing RDA entities Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item
9. Resource Description and Access (RDA) - Official: Describing RDA Entities Nomen, Agents, Place, and Timespan
PART FOUR Subject Access and Controlled Vocabularies
Standards and Tools
10. Principles of Controlled Vocabularies and Subject Analysis
11. Library of Congress Subject Headings
12. Other Subject and Genre/Format Vocabularies
PART FIVE Organization of Library Resources
Standards and Tools
13. Classification and Categorization
14. Dewey Decimal Classification
15. Library of Congress Classification
16. National Library of Medicine Classification and Other Modern Classification Schemes
PART SIX Encoding & Records of Bibliographic and Authority Data
17. MARC 21 Encoding for Original RDA Data
18. BIBFRAME Data
PART SEVEN Cataloging Ethics
19. Ethics and Critical Cataloging
Appendix A: Entities and RDA Elements
Appendix B: Sample MARC Records
Appendix C: One Work with Multiple Expressions and Manifestations
Glossary
Index
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