Cataloging and Classification

by Chan, Lois Mai; Hodges, Theodora L. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780810859449
• ISBN10: 0810859440
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-30
• Publisher: Scarecrow Pr

Summary

Cataloging and Classification, Third Edition, is a text for beginning students and a tool for practicing cataloging personnel. All chapters have been rewritten in this latest edition to incorporate recent developments, particularly the tremendous impact metadata and the Web have had on cataloging and classification.

Author Biography

Lois Mai Chan is professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.

Table of Contents

Information resource management : description, access, organization	p. 3
Foundations, principles, and standards of resource description	p. 47
Anglo-American cataloging rules : description	p. 64
Dublin core and other metadata schemas	p. 115
Access points : name and title	p. 145
Authority control : forms of name headings and uniform titles	p. 164
Principles of controlled vocabularies and subject analysis	p. 195
Library of Congress subject headings	p. 213
FAST (faceted application of subject terminology)	p. 258
Sears list of subject headings	p. 268
Medical subject headings	p. 290
Classification and categorization	p. 309
Dewey decimal classification	p. 320
Library of Congress classification	p. 375
National Library of Medicine classification and other modern classification schemes	p. 410
MARC formats and encoding schemas	p. 447
Producing and processing cataloging records	p. 480
MARC bibliographic records	p. 491
MARC authority records	p. 507
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