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Classification
MARC Format
MARC Tags
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Direct Access groups physical materials about the same subject on the same shelves. Indirect access leads users to surrogate records and shows how to retrieve the materials from either shelf or electronic collections.
What is the difference between direct access and indirect access to materials?
100
1. CIP Cataloging in Publication information prepared by publishers. 2. LOC Library of Congress MARC Records prepared by professional catalogers. 3. PCC Program for Cooperative Cataloging Records prepared by Members working cooperatively with catalogers and metadata specialists around the globe.
Which sources are used to create original catalog records for shared bibliographic databases?
100
DDC has notation using only numeric characters to represent a classification category. LC has notation with alphabetic and numeric characters for classification.
What is the difference between pure and mixed notation?
100
1. Bibliographic Data, 2. Authority Data, 3. Holdings Data, 4. Classification Data, 5. Local Community Information.
What are five types of MARC Formats?
100
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What is the Main Entry MARC Tag?
200
1. The international standard incorporated into AACR2 is ISBD, the International Standard Bibliographic Description. Selected 2. ISBD states that rules should be in simple language so catalogers do not have to rely on experts to guide them. Fields can be interpreted by their content area and position in the record.
What international standard is incorporated into the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, second edition (AACR2) AND what does it prescribe?
200
1. Search and/or retrieve existing records. 2. Confirm that record material description matches item being cataloged. 3. Edit the data on the original source record if necessary. 4. Enter local data such as holdings record, subject headings, or notes. 5. Produce the record updating the catalog.
What are 5 steps of the copy cataloging operation in correct order from start to finish?
200
Specific groups of numbers may represent the same topic in many positions of the subdivision classification table.
What is a mnemonic device?
200
1. Tags are three-digit codes, 2. Subfields are indicated by two-character delimiter symbols, 3. Subfields contain the smallest logical unit of descriptive data pertaining to a bibliographic item.
What are three types of content designators in MARC Records?
200
2XX fields
What are Titles, edition, imprint MARC Tags?
300
a. Cutter numbers are first assigned as coded versions of words from descriptive subject headings. Selected b. Cutter numbers consist of an initial letter followed by one or more digits representing letters of the words.
What kinds of shelf marks are added to classification numbers to form call numbers?
300
1. Evidence of Ownership added to materials: Stamping, pasting, embossing materials. 2. Record and track patron checkouts so that circulating materials are returned by due dates: Placement of material or patron barcodes. 3. Location of call number labels: Spine label can wear off or spine is too narrow for label placement.
What are advantages and disadvantages of method libraries use to show the materials that they own?
300
Classification systems in which the classes are subdivided on the principle of logical subordination, from the most general subjects to the most specific and each subject is developed to the point of indivisibility and a notation assigned for every subdivision.
What is heirarchical or enumerative classification?
300
1. Reader is the focus. 2. English vs Foreign Terms. 3. Specifity degree to which the meaning of a subject heading or descriptor matches in breadth one of the major subjects of the document to which it is assigned.
What are principles that underlie subject heading authorities?
300
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What is the Physical description MARC Tag?
400
EITHER Naturally occurring objects have not been packaged for commercial distribution OR An issue after the first one uses the first date and adds a hyphen with no date until the serial is closed when publication ends.
When may a date be omitted from a bibliographic record?
400
A. Book barcodes are used to identify material with the bibliographic record. Selected B. Patron barcodes are used to identify borrower with patron record. Selected C. Barcodes are scanned to link books with patron checkouts and due dates for item return.
What THREE functions do library barcodes serve?
400
1. Cost savings of shared resources. 2. Less original cataloging (more copy-cataloging). 3. Larger database of materials available ILL.
What are the advantages of libraries belonging to networks?
400
LCSH Library of Congress Subject Headings are pre-coordinated by subject experts AND SEARS Subject Headings are simple and less technical for small libraries.
What are the benefits for adopting controlled vocabularies for subject headings?
400
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What is the Notes MARC Tag?
500
Main Title exactly transcribed AND the Item Number within a series AND the ISSN number assigned to the Series
What data is essential to catalog a series record?
500
a. RFID is a radio frequency system that tags materials with a microchip and radio frequency. Selected b. It monitors materials that go in and out of the library, sounding gate alarms if not deactivated when checked out.
What is RFID and how does it work to protect library materials?
500
1. Titles, including alternate titles and sub-titles. 2. Table of contents or site maps. 3. Introductions, prefaces, "about files".
Where do cataloges look for information about subject content of materials?
500
Public libraries assume that people seek materials by the author's name or a subject's name shelved in alphabetical order.
Why do public libraries sometimes exclude fiction and biography from enumerative classification?
500
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What is the Subject Added Entry MARC Tag?