Lecture 1 21A - Catalogues - Iintroduction

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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


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


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.

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