Catalog it! a guide to cataloging school library materials /

• Main Author: Kaplan, Allison G.
• Corporate Author: Gale Group.
• Other Authors: Riedling, Ann Marlow, 1952-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Worthington, Ohio : Linworth Books, c2006.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Series: Gale virtual reference library
• Subjects: Cataloging > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; School libraries.; Instructional materials centers.; Cataloging > History.; Copy cataloging.; Cataloging > Equipment and supplies.; Descriptive cataloging.; MARC formats.; Subject cataloging.; Classification.; School libraries > Automation.
• Online Access: Available for Universiti Teknologi MARA via Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click here to access

Presents both the theory and practice of cataloging, using concrete examples of items commonly found in school libraries. Includes a brief history of cataloging, copy cataloging and cataloger's tools, intellectual access (assigning subject headings and classification codes), physical descriptio...

Table of Contents:

• A brief history of cataloging
• Copy cataloging & cataloger's resources
• Cataloging theory & the MARC record
• Intellectual access: subject headings
• Intellectual access: classification
• Physical access
• The future of cataloging
• Processing the information package.