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Chapter 4

Descriptive Cataloging

TERMINOLOGY

access point: A name or a term that can be used to retrieve the bib lio-
graphic infor mation from a card cat alog or an online catalog. Exam -
ples are: author’s name, title of the book, and sub ject heading. All
entries, or head ings, are access points.

added entry: Other access point(s) besides the main entry used to
identify a work. For a book, added entries may include joint author,
translator, title, series title, etc.
ana lyt i cal entry: An access point that is the title or name of a part of
a work, or a sep arate part that belongs to a series.

area: The part of the descrip tion that con tains cer tain pieces of infor -
mation. For exam ple, title and state ment of responsibility make up an
area; edi tion state ment is an area.
chief source of infor mation: The source the cat aloger uses that pro -
vides the infor mation for cat aloging the material. For exam ple, for a
book, the chief source is the title page of the book. For a videorecord-
ing, the chief source is the title frames or the information printed on
its con tainer.
com piler: A per son who pre pares for the pub lication of a work by
putting pieces of related works together. The pieces may be writ ten
by the same author or by sev eral authors.
diorama: A three-dimen sional min iature scene, such as fig ures in a
back ground set ting.

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