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This work has been revised and updated to include the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd ed), the Dewey Decimal System Classification (21st ed) and the Library of Congress Classification Schedules. The text details the essential elements of the International Standard Bibliographic Description; introduces the associated OCLC/MARC specifications; and more. The CD-ROM gives more than 500 PowerPoint slides and graphics identical to the text, in addition to scans of the title page, and title page verso and other illustrations that support examples from Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd ed).
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Cataloguing: rules for description; choices of access points; headings for persons and references; headings for corporate bodies and references; uniform titles and references. subject analysis: Dewey decimal classification; Library of Congress classification; Library of Congress subject classification. Appendices: answers to the descriptive cataloguing exercise; answers to the access points exercise; answers to the forms of headings and references exercise; answers to the Dewey decimal classification exercise; answers to the Library of Congress classification exercise; answers to the Library of Congress subject headings exercise.
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Jerry Saye
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This work has been revised and updated to include the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd ed), the Dewey Decimal System Classification (21st ed) and the Library of Congress Classification Schedules. The text details the essential elements of the International Standard Bibliographic Description; introduces the associated OCLC/MARC specifications;
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"About the third edition. . . . . .a valuable source for continuing education for practitioners who want to acquaint themselves with changes in new editions of the basic cataloging tools. . . .a significant improvement. . ..considerably expanded. . ..The step-by-step analysis of the answers for the DDC and LCC exercises is especially valuable."---Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science Unqualified praise for the previous editions. . . "This workbook will be useful in the most basic cataloging and classification classes, and can be used as a self-study tool."---Library Science ". . .The examples will prove useful to beginning students. . ..the exercises do offer good practice.. . .There is also an outline for. . .an interesting lecture on subject headings.. . . . . .an extremely valuable workbook for a one-semester beginning course."---The Library Quarterly ". . .designed for use. . .in a beginning course in cataloging and classification."---American Libraries
