Cataloging and Classification

Athena Salaba, Professor at the School of Information, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, is the co-author of four books and author of a number book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers. She holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Salaba served as the Co-chair and Secretary of the IFLA Working Group on the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR), Chair of the Subject Analysis Committee (SAC) of ALA’s ALCTS Division, and a member of the IFLA Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM) Review Group, previously the FRBR Review Group. She serves as the Chair of the IFLA Subject Analysis and Access (SAA) section and Treasurer and member of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Board of Directors. She is an appointed member of the ALA Committee on Accreditation. Her research areas include the organization of information, metadata, knowledge organization systems, subject access to information, conceptual modeling of bibliographic data, intercultural awareness of information professionals, knowledge organization education and competences, user-information interactions, and user experience studies.She teaches graduate courses on resource description and access (descriptive cataloguing) and subject analysis, representation, and access.The late Lois Mai Chan was professor emerita at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, was the author of eight books and numerous articles and co-editor of two collections in the areas of knowledge organization and subject indexing. In 1989, Chan was awarded the Margaret Mann Citation for Outstanding Achievement in Cataloging and Classification given by the American Library Association. In 1992, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Chinese- American Librarians Association. In 1999, Chan and Diane Vizine-Goetz were chosen for the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services’ (ALCTS) Best of LRTS Award for the Best Article Published in 1998. In 2006, Chan received the Beta Phi Mu (International Honor Society for Library and Information Science) Award for distinguished service to education for librarianship. From 1986 to 1991, Chan served as the chair of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee. She served as a member of the IFLA Standing Committee on Knowledge Management and the IFLA Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) Working Group. Her research interests included knowledge organization, subject vocabulary, authority control, metadata, and organization and retrieval of Web resources.

Cataloging andClassification: An Introduction will continue to serve well as a textbook forlibrary and information science studentsand as a reference in their careers.

• CONTENTSPrefacePART ONE Introduction1. Information Resource Management: Description, Access, Organization2. Foundations, Principles, Conceptual Models, and Standards of Resource DescriptionPART TWO Record Production and Structure, Encoding Formats, and Metadata RecordsStandards and Tools 3. Records and Encoding Schemas 4. Metadata SchemasPART THREE Resource Description and Access: Foundations and Standards5. Foundations of Resource Description 6. Resource Description and Access (RDA)- Original: Basics; Identifying Manifestations, Items, Works, and Expressions7. Resource Description and Access (RDA) - Original: Agents, Nomen, Place, Timespan; Recording Relationships8. Resource Description and Access (RDA) - Official: Basics; Describing RDA entities Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item9. Resource Description and Access (RDA) – Official: Describing RDA Entities Nomen, Agents, Place, and TimespanPART FOUR Subject Access and Controlled VocabulariesStandards and Tools10. Principles of Controlled Vocabularies and Subject Analysis11. Library of Congress Subject Headings12. Other Subject and Genre/Format VocabulariesPART FIVE Organization of Library ResourcesStandards and Tools13. Classification and Categorization14. Dewey Decimal Classification15. Library of Congress Classification16. National Library of Medicine Classification and Other Modern Classification SchemesPART SIX Encoding & Records of Bibliographic and Authority Data17. MARC 21 Encoding for Original RDA Data18. BIBFRAME DataPART SEVEN Cataloging Ethics19. Ethics and Critical CatalogingAppendix A: Entities and RDA ElementsAppendix B: Sample MARC RecordsAppendix C: One Work with Multiple Expressions and Manifestations GlossaryIndexAbout the Authors