Product Description: The first edition of Subject Access to Films & Videos has been effectively used by catalogers for years, but today's library features substantially more headings, and an enhanced vision of what may be considered "adequate subject access" is now available...read more

Product Description: It is a time of productive and exciting changes in the cataloging world, and cataloging for children is placed squarely in the middle of this upheaval, offering librarians working with kids a particular opportunity. This new fifth edition of the classic Cataloging Correctly for Kids points the way towards providing effective cataloging for materials intended for children and young adults...read more

Product Description: In Beginning Cataloging, Jean Weihs and Sheila Intner offer a pragmatic approach that combines short instructional explanations with extensive examples and exercises. The reader will learn how to apply standard descriptive cataloging rules to assign subject headings and classification numbers and to create electronic records...read more

Product Description: Three mavens of the cataloging world tackle the topic of metadata, explaining fundamental concepts and their accompanying rationales, as well as exploring current developments and future innovations in the library world. Part One examines the characteristics of multiple metadata schema, the creation of metadata for both monographic and continuous electronic resources, and its integration into local catalogs and databases...read more

Explains the unique ways that children look for information and how to approach cataloging accordingly, including a discussion of AACR2, MARC, nonprint materials, and Library of Congress children's headings.

Product Description: Examine some of the most recent developments in bibliographic control! Electronic Cataloging: AACR2 and Metadata for Serials and Monographs is a collection of papers about recent developments in metadata and its practical applications in cataloging...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Used in library schools worldwide, this standard text provides students with a thorough understanding of technical services. Updated and expanded, the eighth edition further emphasizes the rapidly changing environment in which technical services are conducted...read more

Product Description: In the four years since the last edition came out, there have been new editions of nearly every cataloging rule and tool to which it refers: the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Sears List of Subject Headings, and Dewey Decimal Classification, to name a few...read more

Product Description: Novice catalogers in special libraries, who are often expected to fulfill commitments to online bibliographic networks and cataloging consortia, will find this a thorough but uncomplicated guide to standard cataloging. Covering all aspects of bibliographic description, access points, indexing, classification, and related activities (e...read more

Cataloging of Audiovisual Materials and Other Special Materials covers both cataloging and MARC coding and tagging for all kinds of special materials in all types of libraries. Types of material include videos, talking books, CD-ROMs, interactive multimedia, Internet resources, maps, all kinds of graphic materials, as well as toys, games, and kits. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This comprehensive text clarifies the rules and practices of descriptive and subject cataloging of Hebrew-alphabet materials. At the same time it chronicles the historical and descriptive cataloging and classification traditions in two centers of Hebrew cataloging-Washington and Jerusalem...read more

Product Description: At a time of shrinking budgets and increasing demands, libraries are facing problems in meeting their needs for new collection development specialists. This volume proposes creative solutions to the three significant problems experienced by library administrators: attracting new collection development librarians, educating them in appropriate library school programs, and training them to perform their jobs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book offers solutions to the problems of recruitment, education, and training of cataloging librarians. Sheila S. Intner and Janet Swan Hill have compiled a series of informative essays that provide creative solutions on a wide array of issues in the library cataloging field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Jane Anne Hannigan's greatest contributions to the profession have been as a library educator, first at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and then at the School of Library Service, Columbia University...read more

Product Description: "Librarians entering the profession often shun the prospect of becoming catalogers because they perceive public service responsibilities as more rewarding than those of technical services. This is causing a shortage in the area of technical services in general and cataloging librarians in particular...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays discuss software collection development, review sources, microcomputers, copyright issues, CD-ROM, networking, and management problems

Product Description: This informative study is based on the responses of a sampling of academic, public, and school libraries to a survey conducted in 1983. The selection was made with a deliberate effort to include libraries of varying size, focus, and geographic area around the country, and three vitally important policy issues were emphasized: Who may borrow materials from the library? What may they borrow? How are materials borrowed and what process is followed when they are returned? The answers provided by the sample group to these and other questions are described and analyzed, and comparisons are made of the ways in each library formulates, reviews and amends its policies, and which plans are being made for the future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)