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Guide to the Library of Catalog It! The RDA Workbook
Congress Classification A Guide to Cataloging Learning the Basics of

Sixth Edition | LOIS MAI CHAN, School Library Materials Resource Description
SHEILA S. INTNER, AND JEAN WEIHS and Access
Third Edition | ALLISON G. KAPLAN
MARGARET MERING, EDITOR

September 2016, 373pp, 7x10 December 2015, 230pp, 8 1/2x11
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The Library of Congress Classification
system is used in academic, legal, “ Catalog It! shines as an
medical, and research libraries essential professional “ A useful, engaging, and
throughout North America as well as development resource for well-written book that is
worldwide; accordingly, catalogers and school library cataloging. ” recommended to catalogers
librarians in these settings all need to —Technicalities, November 14, 2016 and staff in all libraries and
be able to use it. The established gold cataloging instructors and their
standard text for Library of Congress Whether you’re a practicing cataloger students. ”
Classification (LCC), the sixth edition looking for a short text to update you —Library Journal, Starred Review,
of Guide to the Library of Congress on the application of RDA to cataloging April 15, 2014
Classification updates and complements records or a school librarian who needs
the classic textbook’s coverage of a quick resource to answer cataloging Whether a library catalogs its own
cataloging in academic and research questions, this guide is for you. materials or not, librarians still need
libraries. FEATURES to have some understanding of RDA.
Designed to be used by academic,
• Thoroughly updates a best-selling,
FEATURES public, and school librarians, this is the
essential guide to cataloging
• Serves primarily as an introductory perfect introduction.
textbook for core LIS courses in • Addresses the new standards
cataloging and classification and in specifically as they apply to school FEATURES
organization of information but also libraries • Focuses on the new RDA rules
as a reference work for practicing • Helps school librarians understand and conventions and their
librarians and implement the new cataloging implementation, particularly in
• Includes an appendix containing standards in their collections smaller libraries where there are no
models for sub-arrangements within • Distills the latest information and professional catalogers
disciplines presents it in a format that is clear • Presents FRBR and other aspects
and accessible of RDA’s theoretical framework in
• Fills the need for up-to-the-minute understandable terms
cataloging guidance for the busy • Features a step-by-step guide to
librarian who wants information in a creating bibliographic records for print
hurry and electronic books, videos, and
other formats

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