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Course outline
Reading List
In-course tests and Essay Lecturer availability
Introduction to Catalogue Creation and Use
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Objective
Have basic understanding of:
Cataloguing and
The library catalogue
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ANOPINION TO CONSIDER
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/04/future.library.technology/
The future of libraries, with or without books By John D.
Sutter - CNN
The stereotypical library is dying -- and it's taking its shushingladies, dank smell and endless shelves of books with it.
Libraries are trying to imagine their futures with or without
books.
Books are being pushed aside for digital learning centers and
gaming areas. "Loud rooms" that promote public discourse andgroup projects are taking over the bookish quiet. Hipster staffers
who blog, chat on Twitter and care little about the Dewey
Decimal System are edging out old-school librarians
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ANOPINION TO CONSIDER
He continues ....
Authors, publishing houses, librarians and Web sites
continue to fight Google's efforts to digitize the world's
books and create the world's largest library online.
Meanwhile, many real-world libraries are moving
forward with the assumption that physical books will
play a much-diminished or potentially nonexistent role
in their efforts to educate the public.Some books will still be around, they say, although
many of those will be digital. But the goal of the library
remains the same: To be a free place where people can
access and share information. ...
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Discussion
When do you use a library catalogue?
Why do you use it?
How do you use it?
Where do you use it?
What is a library catalogue?
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Cataloguing and Classification in Library Services
Typical departments of a library:1.1. Technical ServicesTechnical Services
2. Circulation and Reference
3. Special Collections
4. Research and Information Services
5. Support departments: Accounting
Administrative and Personnel
Information Systems
AcquisitionsCataloging & ClassificationCataloging & Classification
Serials Services
Binding/Preservation
Information Systems
Accounting
Introduction
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Cataloguing and Classification in Library ServicesIntroduction
Term Cataloguing includes all activities involved
in producing what is called a bibliographic recordor surrogate, of information bearing items in a
collection or collections.
Sometimes phrase Cataloguing & Classification
is used instead.
Cataloguerperforms all activities referred to
above .
SOME DEFINITIONS
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Cataloguing and Classification in Library Services
Introduction SOME DEFINITIONS
Cataloguing - activity of giving a description of
key physical and objective features or elementsof the item and descriptors or subject headings or
intellectual content indexing which give the
user the information on the contents of the item.
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Cataloguing and Classification has two basic divisions:
Descriptive Cataloguing and
Subject Work in Information Retrieval
Descriptive Cataloguing is the activity of identifying a work by
giving a description of key physical and objective features or elements
of an information bearing item and determining appropriate access
points and forms of these.
INTRODUCTION
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Cataloguing and Classification in Library ServicesIntroduction
Details of item described in Cataloguing
(not classification) activity or Catalogue work
TitleAuthor
Edition
Publication data place, publisher, date
Physical description size, # of pagesISBN
Series
Notes
Added Entries (Bibliographic & {Subject})
Desc
riptive
cataloguing
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Catalogue CardIntroduction
Title
AuthorEdition
Publication da
Phys. Desc.
Notes
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Card CatalogueIntroduction
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INTRODUCTION
Subject Work in Information Retrieval
It is the determination of the subject content
or intellectual content of an information bearing item/package(subject analysis) and expressing it in words or a code, as
clearly and concisely/accurately as possible so that users
can easily retrieve or locate the information bearing entity as
the result of a search.
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INTRODUCTION
Subject Work in Information Retrieval
To assign a code which expresses the subject content of the
work, librarians use Library Classification schemes such asthe Dewey Decimal Classification or the
Library of Congress Classification Schemes
To assign appropriate words which express the intellectual
content or the subject of a work, librarians use Subject
headings lists such as
the Sears and
Library of Congress Subject Headings Lists
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Original Cataloguing Initial description.
Specialized libraries do mostly original cataloguing.
Copy Cataloguing Use a copy of original recordto duplication of effort. Large libraries with wide
collection use mainly copy or cooperative.
Cooperative Cataloguing Member librariesContribute original cataloguing to an electronic
System.
E.g. OCLC
SOME TERMINOLOGY:Introduction
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Overview of cataloguing ProcessCataloguing: Original/Copy/Cooperative
Descriptive
CataloguingSubject Cataloguing
Subject Analysis
Subject Headings Classification
Authority Control
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
CARD MARC
USMARC
CANMARC
OPAC/WEBPAC
DISPLAYSFORMATS: Support records
-Shelf list
-Authority Files
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A THOUGHT
Some see future in which every information bearing
entity is digitized and available online and thereforea user would have no need for traditional
bibliographic tools by extension the catalogue,
bibliographies, indexes, abstracts.
How could these be controlled identifying,
indexing etc. - for retrieval?
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Definition of a Catalogue
List of information bearing entities in a library with entries, each
having access point or heading, arranged for retrieval in a
systematic manner. An information entity may have one or
several entries. Each entry has a heading - which could be an author, title, subject heading,
classification number which is the element by which the entry
is filed
a description title, author, and related information; edition;
publication data; pagination & series data; notes; ISBN
a shelf-mark (not found in bibliographies or indexes)
Each entry represents or acts as a surrogate for an information
bearing entity.
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Summary
Have looked at:
Concepts and terminology associated with cataloguing and
classification
What a catalogue is
Reading: Chan: Pages 3-40 & Taylor 3-24.