The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules: Papers from the ALCTS Preconference, AACR2000, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, June 22, 1995

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American Library Association, 1998 - 135 páginas
In this work, Brian E.C. Schottlaender has drawn together the key authorities on cataloguing with AACR2R. They examine the issues critical to cataloguers, including: the appropriateness of AACR2R for serials and archival materials; AACR2R and authority control; and online cataloguing and searches.

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Toward the Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules
1
Revisiting the Foundations of AACR
6
AACR3? Not
19
AACR and Authority Control
30
Brainstorming for AACR2000
40
A Serials Perspective
66
Archival Description and New Paradigms of Bibliographic Control and Access in the Networked Digital Environment
84
Documents Catalogs and Digital Disorder
97
Toward a New Discipline of Information Description and Management
107
Bibliography
121
Acronyms and Initialisms Used
129
Index
131
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Página 88 - The catalogue should be an efficient instrument for ascertaining 2.1 whether the library contains a particular book specified by (a) its author and title, or (b) if the author is not named in the book, its title alone, or (c) if author and title are inappropriate or insufficient for identification, a suitable substitute for the title; and 2.2 (a) which works by a particular author and (b) which editions of a particular work are in the library.
Página 64 - Statement of principles. Adopted at the International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, October, 1961.
Página 7 - OBJECTS. 1. To enable a person to find a book of which either (A) the author"] (B) the title )> is known. (c) the subject J 2. To show what the library has (D) by a given author (E) on a given subject (F) in a given kind of literature. 3. To assist in the choice of a book (G-) as to its edition (bibliographically). (H) as to its character (literary or topical).
Página 56 - An Essay on the External Use of Water, in a Letter to Dr , with particular Remarks upon the present Method of using the Mineral Waters at Bath in Somersetshire, and a plan for rendering them more safe, agreeable, and efficacious ; 4to, 1752.
Página 45 - The objectives of descriptive cataloging are: (1) to state the significant features of an item with the purpose of distinguishing it from other items and describing its scope, contents, and bibliographic relation to other items; (2) to present these data in an entry which can be integrated with the entries for other items in the catalog and which will respond best to the interests of most users of the catalog.
Página 106 - Filling the Pipeline and Paying the Piper: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium: November 5-7, 1994, the Washington Vista Hotel, Washington, DC, Ann Okerson, ed.
Página 12 - The rules cover the description and entry of all library materials commonly collected at the present time, and the integrated structure of the text will facilitate the use of the general rules as a basis for cataloguing uncommonly collected materials of all kinds and library materials yet unknown.
Página 7 - No code of cataloguing could be adopted in all points by everyone, because the libraries for study and the libraries for reading have different objects, and those which combine the two do so in different proportions.
Página 101 - reading what people have had to say about the future of knowledge in an electronic world, you sometimes have the picture of somebody holding all the books in the library by their spines and shaking them until the sentences fall out loose in space".
Página 40 - For all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts tangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

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