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CATALOGING

Catalog It! Crash Course in Basic Beginning Cataloging

A Guide to Cataloging Cataloging with RDA Second Edition | JEAN WEIHS
School Library Materials HEATHER LEA MOULAISON AND SHEILA S. INTNER
AND RAEGAN WIECHERT
Third Edition | ALLISON G. KAPLAN

December 2016, 148pp, 7x10
Print: 978-1-4408-3844-6
December 2015, 230pp, 8 1/2x11 October 2015, 164pp, 8 1/2x11 $60.00, £47.00, €55.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-3845-3
Print: 978-1-4408-3580-3 Print: 978-1-4408-3776-0
$60.00, £47.00, €55.00 $45.00, £35.00, €41.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-3581-0 eBook: 978-1-4408-3777-7
Now thoroughly updated to include
recent changes with RDA, this easy-to-
“ Catalog It! shines as an “ introduction to current standard use primer provides an introduction to
This book is a good
standardized cataloging that will benefit
essential professional
development resource for cataloging and can serve as a library technicians as well as students in
” other learning opportunities are
school library cataloging. handy supplement to whatever library technician and teacher librarian
—Technicalities, November 14, 2016 programs. This guide will also serve as a
available. ” workbook in formal education programs
Whether you’re a practicing cataloger —Technicalities, January 12, 2017 or distance education programs and be
looking for a short text to update you useful to library technicians and those
on the application of RDA to cataloging Covering tools, terminology, and working in areas where formal training
records or a school librarian who needs the FRBR-based RDA approach to is inaccessible.
a quick resource to answer cataloging description, this book explains the FEATURES
questions, this guide is for you. current principles of organization
of information and basic cataloging • Provides clear and comprehensible
FEATURES practices for non-catalogers, enabling explanations of the rules and tools
• Thoroughly updates a best-selling, readers to understand elements of the used by libraries to catalog and
essential guide to cataloging cataloging process and interact with classify their materials
• Addresses the new standards records in a basic manner. • Illustrative examples for each aspect
specifically as they apply to school of cataloging, classification, RDA, and
libraries FEATURES MARC computer encoding
• Helps school librarians understand • Provides an easy-to-follow, basic • Covers all types of material formats,
and implement the new cataloging understanding of organization of including books, audiovisuals, images,
standards in their collections library information and cataloging sound, electronic resources, and
practice that explains how records more
• Distills the latest information and
presents it in a format that is clear are created and offers assistance in • Offers numerous practical exercises as
and accessible applying RDA well as a glossary of cataloging terms
• Offers valuable insight for non- and tools
• Fills the need for up-to-the-minute
cataloging guidance for the busy catalogers (and even non-librarians)
librarian who wants information in a into the practices and tools used
hurry in organization of information and
cataloging by documenting the work
that catalogers are now doing
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