Cataloging & Classification

Here's a resource that uses language non-catalogers can understand and provides hands-on, user-friendly training in LCSH. The book offers a brief history of LCSH, discusses basic principles of subject analysis, explains the key principles of LCSH, and...

This fifth 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. Coauthor...

A complete discourse on "bound-with books" will help catalogers create records for these materials that are appropriate to their value and uniqueness. Written to provide catalogers an all-in-one resource for information about bound-with books and...

Cataloging managers will find this book a valuable road map for navigating the metadata needs of the 21st-century library. Demand for instant access, 24/7. Outsourcing issues. Constantly evolving standards. How can catalogers create a flexible, Web 2...

Classification now has to encompass 'non-physical' media such as the Internet, yet still ensure access to knowledge held in traditional physical forms on library shelves. What does this mean for the future, and can classification cope with the virtual...

The range of metadata needed to run a digital library and preserve its collections in the long-term is much more extensive and complicated than anything in its traditional counterpart. It includes the same 'descriptive' metadata which guides users to the...

Successful information access in the digital information age requires robust systems of indexing and abstracting. This book provides a complete introduction to the subject that covers the many recent changes in the field. While the basic tenets of...

Collection care is a fundamental responsibility for museums and other collecting institutions, and the foundation of collection stewardship is good collection management policies. The new third edition of Things Great and Small continues to be a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262553490Author Joacim HanssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Reflecting the new modelling for serials introduced by IFLA's Library Reference Model in the most recent revisions to RDA, this up-to-date resource is an important tool for day-to-day practice as well as a reference manual for unusual or difficult cases...