Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction
The fourth edition of the late Lois Mai Chan's 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. Completely updated to incorporate the changes that have occurred during the interval between the third and fourth editions, this book is the standard text for the teaching and understanding of cataloging and classification.
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Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction
The fourth edition of the late Lois Mai Chan's 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. Completely updated to incorporate the changes that have occurred during the interval between the third and fourth editions, this book is the standard text for the teaching and understanding of cataloging and classification.
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Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction

Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction

Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction

Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction

Overview

The fourth edition of the late Lois Mai Chan's 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. Completely updated to incorporate the changes that have occurred during the interval between the third and fourth editions, this book is the standard text for the teaching and understanding of cataloging and classification.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781442232495
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/14/2015
Edition description: Fourth Edition
Pages: 800
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Athena Salaba is associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. The late Lois Mai Chan was formerly Professor Emerita in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She was author of eight books and numerous articles and co-editor of two collections in the areas of knowledge organization and subject indexing. In 1989, Chan was awarded the Margaret Mann Citation for Outstanding Achievement in Cataloging and Classification given by the American Library Association, and in 1992, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Chinese-American Librarians Association.

Table of 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 3. Records and Encoding Schemas 4. Metadata Schemas PART THREE: Resource Description and Access (RDA) 5. RDA and Its Foundations 6. RDA: Identifying Manifestations and Items 7. RDA: Identifying Works and Expressions 8. RDA: Identifying Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies 9. RDA: Recording Relationships PART FOUR: Subject Access and Controlled Vocabularies 10. Principles of Controlled Vocabularies and Subject Analysis 11. Library of Congress Subject Headings 12. FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) 13. Sears List of Subject Headings 14. Medical Subject Headings PART FIVE: Organization of Library Resources 15. Classification and Categorization 16. Dewey Decimal Classification 17. Library of Congress Classification 18. National Library of Medicine Classification and Other Modern Classification Schemes Glossary Bibliography Index About the Authors
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