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The dis advantage of the CD-ROM cat alog is that it is not as up-to-
date as the on line cat alog. Be cause it is not in teractive in na ture, it
does not offer such con venient fea tures as item status, re serve, and in -
terlibrary re quest, which the on line catalog can of fer.

ELEMENTS OF A BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

No mat ter what for mat the cat alog takes, the in formation displayed
is the same. Figures 2.1 and 2.2 show how the same in formation is
displayed both on a catalog card and on the com puter screen. In for-
mation that a book cat alog re veals is also the same since a book cat a-
log is ei ther a com puter print out or pho tographs of cat alog cards.
Information in a bibliographic re cord in cludes the call num ber
(CB161.A35 1987), the au thor (the ex ample in Fig ures 2.1 and 2.2 does
not show an au thor), the ti tle proper, with statement of re sponsibility (An
Agenda for the 21st cen tury/ [ com piled by ] Rush worth M. Kid der), the
edition statement (no edi tion statement is shown for this book, in dicating
it is the first edi tion), the place of pub lication (Cam bridge, Mas sachu-
setts), the pub lisher (MIT Press), the date of pub lication (1987), the ex -
tent of the item, other phys ical de scription (xxii, 216 p. : ports. ; 21 cm.),
the se ries ti tle, notes (“The in terviews in this book were

FIGURE 2.1. Information on a Cat alog Card
CB
161 An Agenda for the 21st cen tury /
.A35 [ com piled by ] Rush worth M. Kid der.—-
1987 Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1987.
xxii, 216 p. : ports. ; 21 cm.
Bib li og ra phy: p. xxii.
Includes index.
“The interviews in this book were orig inally published
as a series in the Christian Sci ence Mon itor”—
T.p. verso.
ISBN 0-262-11128-4

1. Twenty-first century—Forecasts.
I. Kid der, Rush worth M. II. Title:
Agenda for the twenty-first century.

21 DEC 90 16578832 MHGAdc 87-22597