Crash Course in Basic Cataloging with RDA

by Heather Lea Moulaison, Raegan Wiechert Assistant Professor

Overview

Covering tools, terminology, and the FRBR-based RDA approach to description, this book explains the current principles of organization of information and basic cataloging practices for non-catalogers, enabling readers to understand elements of the cataloging process and interact with records in a basic manner.

Organization of information and cataloging is often the most daunting task for library technicians and non-catalogers working in the library. New RDA cataloging rules can be baffling for even the more seasoned catalogers. Written by two authors with 20 years' combined experience in cataloging instruction, Crash Course in Basic Cataloging with RDA approaches current principles of organization of information and cataloging practices from a basic standpoint for non-catalogers. It makes a complex topic easy to understand and a complicated practice doable for those without the proper training and necessary experience.

The book gives readers a basic understanding of organization of information and cataloging practice, explaining how records are created and the approaches to different formats of information in libraries, including MARC records and encoding RDA cataloging records; offering assistance in applying RDA; identifying the cataloger's tools; and providing non-technical explanations for the tasks that today's catalogers do. It contains an introduction, a bibliography/webliography, and three appendices of additional resources (Cataloging Tools, Resources for Catalogers, and Sample Catalog Records).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440837760
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/01/2015
Series:	Crash Course
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	180
Sales rank:	325,480
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Heather Lea Moulaison, PhD, is assistant professor at the iSchool at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Raegan Wiechert, MLS, is assistant professor and cataloger at Missouri State University.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS



Illustrations

Introduction



Chapter 1: What is Cataloging?

Chapter 2: ILSs and the Online Library Catalog

Chapter 3: Materials and Approaches in Library Cataloging

Chapter 4: Encoding RDA Cataloging Records

Chapter 5: RDA, the Toolkit, and Works and Expressions

Chapter 6: RDA: Manifestations and Items

Chapter 7: Access Points and Controlled Vocabulary

Chapter 8: Subject Access and Controlled Vocabulary

Chapter 9: Classification

Chapter 10: Working with Catalog Records and Materials



Appendix A: Examples of RDA Cataloging Records in MARC

Appendix B: Cataloging Tools: A Bibliography/Webliography

Appendix C: Professional Resources for Catalogers

Index

Editorial Reviews

This book is a good introduction to current standard cataloging and can serve as a handy supplement to whatever other learning opportunities are available.” —Technicalities

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