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ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Introduction to Cataloging

and Classification Multilingual Access

Eleventh Edition and Services for
DANIEL N. JOUDREY, ARLENE G. TAYLOR, Digital Collections
AND DAVID P. MILLER
JIANGPING CHEN
“ to anyone interested in Written for digital library
I recommend this book
gaining a strong foundation developers, library and
in classification, but most information science
particularly to those graduate students, and
new to the topic. It also information professionals
would be useful to more serving international
seasoned catalogers information users, this
who simply want to see book defines multilingual
the whole picture of what information access
classification is and does. (MLIA) and discusses the
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descriptive cataloging based on contemporary standards, information retrieval,
explaining the basic tenets to readers without previous machine translation, and case studies of current multilingual
experience, as well as to those who merely want a better digital libraries, the author clearly explains what you need
understanding of the process as it exists today. The text opens to know about technologies for building MLIA function for
with the foundations of cataloging, then moves to specific digital collections.
details and subject matter such as Functional Requirements
for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements for FEATURES
Authority Data (FRAD), the International Cataloging Principles • Integrates useful knowledge from multiple disciplines
(ICP), and RDA. such as database design, information retrieval, machine
Unlike other texts, the book doesn’t presume a close familiarity translation, and natural language processing for multilingual
with the MARC bibliographic or authorities formats; ALA’s Anglo- information access
American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition, revised (AACR2R); • Provides practical knowledge and technologies you can
or the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD). understand and apply in your work
Subject access to library materials is covered in sufficient depth • Shows you how to evaluate machine translation services
to make the reader comfortable with the principles and practices and how to build multilingual services for digital libraries
of subject cataloging and classification. In addition, the book
introduces MARC, BIBFRAME, and other approaches used to
communicate and display bibliographic data. Discussions of
formatting, presentation, and administrative issues complete the JIANGPING CHEN,
book; questions useful for review and study appear at the end of PhD, is associate
each chapter. professor in the
Department of Library
FEATURES and Information
Sciences at the
• Delineates the new cataloging landscape University of North Texas
• Shares a principles-based perspective (UNT).
• Provides introductory text for beginners and intermediate
students

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