Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction » (3rd Edition)

Cataloging and Classification, Third Edition, is a text for beginning students and a tool for practicing cataloging personnel. All chapters have been rewritten in this latest edition to incorporate recent developments, particularly the tremendous impact metadata and the Web have had on cataloging and classification.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Bibliographic Control and Library Catalogs
PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGING
2. Development of Cataloging Codes
3. Description
4. Choice of Access Points
5. Name Authority Control and Forms of Headings and Uniform Titles
6. References
PART THREE: SUBJECT ACCESS IN LIBRARY CATALOGS
7. Subject Cataloging
8. Library of Congress Subject Headings
9. Sears List of Subject Headings
10. Medical Subject Headings and Other Subject Cataloging Systems
PART FOUR: CLASSIFICATION
11. General Principles of Classification
12. Dewey Decimal Classification
13. Library of Congress Classification
14. National Library of Medicine Classification and Other Modern Classification Systems
PART FIVE: USMARC FORMATS AND PRODUCTION OF CATALOGING RECORDS
15. USMARC Formats
16. Producing Cataloging Records
Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index