Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 802
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
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Dr. Athena Salaba is associate professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University.
The late Lois Mai Chan was formerly Professor Emerita in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She was author of eight books and numerous articles and co-editor of two collections in the areas of knowledge organization and subject indexing. In 1989, Chan was awarded the Margaret Mann Citation for Outstanding Achievement in Cataloging and Classification given by the American Library Association, and in 1992, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Chinese-American Librarians Association.
Preface
PART ONE: Introduction
1. Information Resource Management: Description, Access, Organization
2. Foundations, Principles, Conceptual Models, and Standards of Resource Description
PART TWO: Record Production and Structure, Encoding Formats, and Metadata Records
3. Records and Encoding Schemas
4. Metadata Schemas
PART THREE: Resource Description and Access (RDA)
5. RDA and Its Foundations
6. RDA: Identifying Manifestations and Items
7. RDA: Identifying Works and Expressions
8. RDA: Identifying Persons, Families, and Corporate Bodies
9. RDA: Recording Relationships
PART FOUR: Subject Access and Controlled Vocabularies
10. Principles of Controlled Vocabularies and Subject Analysis
11. Library of Congress Subject Headings
12. FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology)
13. Sears List of Subject Headings
14. Medical Subject Headings
PART FIVE: Organization of Library Resources
15. Classification and Categorization
16. Dewey Decimal Classification
17. Library of Congress Classification
18. National Library of Medicine Classification and Other Modern Classification Schemes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
[T]he book is a great resource and collects a lot of cataloging information that is otherwise dispersed. It would be a valuable resource to a new cataloger or any cataloger needing help interpreting RDA. It is a text for catalogers in any type of library and for any type of material (including non-traditional materials). It should be found in every library school library as a reference resource.
— Technical Services Quarterly
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