A practical guide to the world of cataloging and classification. It incorporates the 2002 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), MARC 21, the 22nd edition of Dewey Decimal Classification , schedules of the LC Classifications, the Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the 18th edition of Sears List of Subject Headings .

Charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world - in which everything has a place - are upended. This book shows how people can reap rewards from the rise of digital knowledge.

A comprehensive text on creating clear and complete bibliographic records. This updated edition includes information on computerized cataloguing formats, authority controls and the current practices in creating, formatting and maintaining bibliographic records.

Part of the Library and Information Science Text series, this is a guide to cataloguing audiovisual and multimedia resources in the library. It drives an increasing percentage of library user interests influencing library collection development, and placing increased demands on library cataloguer's skills.

Addressing both the big-picture fundamentals and nuts-and-bolts details, this is an introduction to MARC 21. It covers: how to search MARC records; what the terms and codes mean; how different library departments use MARC; and how MARC record data should be presented to end users.

Explores the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. The book investigates a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification and race classification under apartheid in South Africa.

Metadata is used to organize and access information in an effective way. This is a comprehensive description of the various forms of metadata, its applications, and how librarians can use it. Both descriptive and nondescriptive forms of metadata are defined and applied to library functions.

Written by the author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , this book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. It discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that make unlimited findability possible, and explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society.

Argues that the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the tunnel vision that information-driven technologies breed. This book shows us how to look beyond our obsession with information and individuals to include the critical social networks of which these are always a part.

An introduction to the basics of cataloging children's materials, this book helps you and your staff keep your collections organized, accessible, and manageable. It covers various things you need to know about cataloging - description, authority control, automation systems and retrieval, MARC, subject headings, classification, and more.

Presents the general principles underlying the design of bibliographic databases. This book covers topics such as the impact of technology on catalogs and catalog codes, design objectives for online catalogs, standardization and integration in bibliographic control, and access to bibliographic information in the online age.

Explores the changing nature of cataloguing in the aftermath of e-journal invasion. This work traces the development of the issue by examining changes in AACR2 and CONSER rules, focusing on the revision of AACR2 , Chapter 12, and emergence of the concept of 'Continuing Resources'.

Provides an explanation of the various advancements in information retrieval and their application to systems. This book takes a system approach, discussing all aspects of an Information Retrieval System. It provides coverage of the different aspects of information retrieval, and allows students to implement a simple Information Retrieval System.

Offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries. This title conducts a library tour that extends from the author's childhood bookshelves to the 'complete' libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google.

Akira Kumo, miraculous survivor of Hiroshima, reinvented himself as someone twenty years younger. Now an eccentric couturier and collector of all literature having to do with clouds and meteorology, he hires Virginie, a young librarian, to catalogue his library. While she works, he tells her stories of those who have devoted their lives to clouds.

Spanish-language edition of Introduction to Metadata . Metadata is data about data . The relationship between a data object and its metadata is like that between a book and its library catalogue record. Metadata insures that information can be easily accessed in a networked environment.

Set in the 1930s, this novel traces the rise and fall of an American demagogue - Louisiana Governor Willie Stark - a once humble man of the people, steadily corrupted by power. Often labelled a political novel, it is also about personal corruption and disillusionment.