Cataloging and Classification

From Professionaltips
(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 1: Line 1:
 +
montar
 
==Quick Links==
 
==Quick Links==
  

Revision as of 01:41, 10 October 2007

montar

Quick Links

ALA Library Fact Sheet 18, How to Acquire Cataloging Materials


Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2)

RDA: Resource Description and Access


Library of Congress Cataloging - Cataloging Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)

Elements of Cataloging and Classification

To "catalog" a book or other form of library material involves several interrelated processes which all contribute to the achievement of Charles Ammi Cutter's "objects" for a catalog:

  • To enable a person fo find a book of which the author, title, or subject is known
  • To show what the library has by a given author, on a given subject, or in a given kind of literature, and
  • To assist in the choice of a book.

(Adapted Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue, by Charles Ammi Cutter, 4th ed., 1904, p. 12.)

Thus, catalogers prepare a description of an item, assign subject headings, determine a shelf location using a classification system, provide a link to the electronic item if appropriate and code that information with both MARC tags or metadata so that it may be displayed in local OPACs and, in North America, in WorldCat. These elements of the process are further elaborated on the following pages.


Classification

Descriptive Cataloging

MARC Tagging

Metadata

Shelflisting

Subject Analysis

Finally, the entries need to be arranged by a consistent set of Filing rules whether manually in a card file or following a program in a computer.


Textbooks

Cataloging and classification: an introduction, by Lois Mai Chan; with the assistance of Theodora L. Hodges. 3rd ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007.

Introduction to cataloging and classification, by Arlene G. Taylor. 10th ed. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

Personal tools
http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php?title=Cataloging_and_Classification&diff=3101&oldid=3070
wikis.ala.org
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-10
18233
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:T3YBOT7UQQUVEK3ISWORY6BGXQFHZ5SH
<urn:uuid:a7a44468-3800-43d7-9561-9c9541bca0e5>
2014-03-16T21:35:09Z
208.113.146.31
sha1:ZPGL5WYBXYOC6TO7K5L2BGZW5INRP3BI
<urn:uuid:808af07c-1aec-492d-93a1-09c6022ec503>
http://wikis.ala.org/professionaltips/index.php?title=Cataloging_and_Classification&diff=3101&oldid=3070
response
<urn:uuid:94797f85-2e1d-4291-bac0-c80e893992c6>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf