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6 books match the query 'Cataloging'

cover of Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images

Cataloging Cultural Objects

A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images

Murtha Baca

American Library Association, 2006

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cover of Cataloging and Managing Film and Video Collections

Cataloging and Managing Film and Video Collections

Colin Higgins

American Library Association, 2015

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cover of Introducing RDA: A Guide To The Basics After 3R

Introducing RDA

A Guide To The Basics After 3R

Chris Oliver

American Library Association, 2021

Since Oliver’s guide was first published in 2010, thousands of LIS students, records managers, and catalogers and other library professionals have relied on its clear, plainspoken explanation of RDA: Resource Description and Access as their first step towards becoming acquainted with the cataloging standard. Now, reflecting the changes to RDA after the completion of the 3R Project, Oliver brings her Special Report up to date. This essential primer

  • concisely explains what RDA is, its basic features, and the main factors in its development;
  • describes RDA’s relationship to the international standards and models that continue to influence its evolution;
  • provides an overview of the latest developments, focusing on the impact of the 3R Project, the results of aligning RDA with IFLA’s Library Reference Model (LRM), and the outcomes of internationalization;
  • illustrates how information is organized in the post 3R Toolkit and explains how to navigate through this new structure; and
  • discusses how RDA continues to enable improved resource discovery both in traditional and new applications, including the linked data environment.
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Introducing RDA

A Guide to the Basics

Chris Oliver

American Library Association, 2010

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cover of Kallimachos: The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography

Kallimachos

The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography

Rudolf Blum

University of Wisconsin Press, 1991

The famous library of Alexandria, founded around 295 BCE by Ptolemaios I, housed the greatest collection of texts in the ancient world and was a fertile site of Hellenistic scholarship. Rudolf Blum’s landmark study, originally published in German in 1977, argues that Kallimachos of Kyrene was not only the second director of the Alexandrian library but also the inventor of two essential scholarly tools still in use to this day: the library catalog and the “biobibliographical” reference work. Kallimachos expanded the library’s inventory lists into volumes called the Pinakes, which extensively described and categorized each work and became in effect a Greek national bibliography and the source and paradigm for most later bibliographic lists of Greek literature. Though the Pinakes have not survived, Blum attempts a detailed reconstruction of Kallimachos’s inventories and catalogs based on a careful analysis of surviving sources, which are presented here in full translation.

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Sudden Position Guide to Cataloging & Metadata

Jeremy Myntti

American Library Association, 2021

Have you been given cataloging or metadata responsibilities in your library without formal training? Do you have experience cataloging one specific type of resource, and now you have been asked to catalog unfamiliar items? Or are you just beginning your library cataloging career and you aren’t sure where to find the help that you need? Sudden Position Guide to Cataloging and Metadata will be a good starting point to learn about the principles and standards of resource description in order to prepare you to tackle your new cataloging or metadata duties. Throughout this guide, many resources and tools are shared to help you have more success in your cataloging and metadata career.
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