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Resources - Book review - Concise cataloguing guide. Jonathan Gordon-Till assesses a book that unravels the complex world of Anglo-American cataloguing, written by the current president of the ALA.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Before you construct something you need to know the ground rules, and the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2) will probably be the basis for any information centre looking to build a catalogue.
This book does have one mark in its favour - Michael Gorman is the colourful president of the American Library Association (ALA) and an award-winning author. One of the few global librarian celebrities.
Gorman's user-friendly fourth edition of The Concise AACR2 takes in the recent changes to AACR2 which reflect electronic resources, serials and cartographic information holdings.
Here, Gorman has re-written all the rules from the full text of AACR2, and provided working examples that will be encountered in an information centre or library setting.
Although it would be ...
- Concise cataloguing guide.(Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2d ed.)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Gordon-Till, Jonathan April 13, 2005 700+ words
...assesses a book that unravels the complex world of Anglo-American cataloguing, written by the current president of the ALA Before...something you need to know the ground rules, and the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2) will probably be the...
- Second Edition of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules on CD-ROM.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Information Today February 1, 1999 700+ words
...Canadian Library Association, and The Library Association have announced the publication on CD-ROM of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second edition, 1998 revision (AACR2R-e). In the complete hypertext package are the comprehensive...
- Final report on the work of the Anglo American cataloguing committee for...
- Magazine article from: The Globe Prescott, Dorothy F. January 1, 2003 700+ words
...Cartographic Materials will be a much amplified version of the first edition which appeared in 1982. The Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) was issued in a revised version in 1988 at which time it became critical that the manual of interpretation...
- Catalog It!: A Guide to Cataloging School Library Materials, 2d ed.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2006 700+ words
...eight areas of description using the MARC format. The second edition reflects the 2004 update of the Anglo-American cataloguing rules and the 14th edition of the Abridged Dewey decimal classification. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc...
- Social sciences reference blockbuster.(The New Walford Guide to Reference...
- Magazine article from: The Australian Library Journal Cullen, Michael February 1, 2009 700+ words
...specific information needs and contexts. Resource descriptions are based on the current edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. Titles are used as 'the lead element for all descriptions', and where necessary concise geographical...
- MARC/AACR2/authority control tagging; a blitz cataloging workbook, 2d...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2005 700+ words
...This workbook provides exercises for practicing machine readable cataloging (MARC) format tagging, Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2) classification and citation, and the proper format of authority records. Answers...
- FRBR: not a cuddly talking toy for catalogers.(Cover Notes)(FRBR: A Guide for...
- Magazine article from: Information Today Gregory, Gwen M. May 1, 2008 700+ words
...to Authority Work (ALA, 2002) and Maxwell's Handbook for AACR2: Explaining and Illustrating the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Through the 2003 Update (ALA, 2004). Now active in national cataloging circles, he is also senior...
- Review article: Seymour Lubetzky Writings on the classical art of...
- Magazine article from: The Australian Library Journal Greig, Eugenie November 1, 2002 700+ words
...and, in introducing a paper presented by Lubetzky at a 1980 conference on the second edition of AACR (Anglo-American cataloguing rules) on page 367: With a gloved hand Lubetzky praises the new code, while suggesting reasons [why] it...
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