Title page
The title page holds the title of the book author, other title and statement or responsibility information ; font size used - varies. The title page is found near the front of the book preliminary pages and can include a frontispiece, an introduction, a dedication or pages of illustrations
Cover title
contains cover title does it have the same title as the title printed on the title page? Are there any notes on this page? If the title on the cover page is different to the title page, this will need to be added to the bib. record. If it is the same there is no need to do anything. If there are notes added to the cover page they can be added to the bib. record, e.g. “A walking trip in Europe”, “A teacher’s guide”.
Spine title
is it the same as the title printed on the title page and the cover title If the title on the spine is different to the title page title this will need to be added to the bib. record. If it is the same there is no need to do anything.
ISBN
These are either 10 digits and/or 13 digit numbers. If they are both located on the book add both to the bib. record
CIP — Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
found on the verso-of-title page. This is a pre-publication bib. record created by the National Library.
Notes
what notes can you find? Browse through the book to see if there is an index and/or a bibliography. Is the book for juvenile readers? These notes will need to be added to the bib. record.
Copy cataloguing
It is also common practice for a cataloguer to find an existing bibliographic record for a new resource that has been created by another library and by downloading and editing that bib. record for their own library's catalogue, to reflect the library’s local policies and library holdings. This is known as copy cataloguing.
Authority records
work in the background to provide consistency in the catalogue
Authorised access points
An access point is the catalogue user's route into the bibliographic record. It provides a structured heading that a user can predict and therefore use to do a successful search of the catalogue. For example, knowing the title of a resource, the user can search using that title and the search will show all the bibliographic records where that title exists.
Access points
bibliographic elements such as title, author and subject.
AACR2
AACR2 is the old cataloguing standard that was conceived in the era of card catalogues. The rules in this cataloguing standard were format driven, meaning, what format the library resource was - book, DVD, CD, etc. heavily influenced what bibliographic information the catalogue record contained.
MAchine Readable Cataloguing (MARC 21)
MARC is an acronym for MAchine Readable Cataloguing, it is a digital encoding standard that allows computers to read and share bibliographic information. MARC consists of a series of bibliographic fields containing tags, indicators, delimiters, subfields and subfield codes, which contain the bibliographic information. Most libraries catalogue using MARC coding. It is primarily a communication format for bibliographic data elements, but just what elements are communicated via MARC is defined by other standards such as AACR2 and now by RDA.
Library of Congress Authorities (LC Authorities)
The Library of Congress is the biggest library in the world, providing a subject headings database and an authority headings database among other facilities and services to use in cataloguing
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
FRBR is a conceptual entity-relationship model about bibliographic data. An entity-relationship model defines entities, lists their attributes, identifies the relationships between entities and maps those relationships to user tasks. It is a conceptual model, an abstract representation of the universe of things being described, and here that universe is the library catalogue and the things being described are library resources.
Resource Description and Access (RDA)
RDA is the new cataloguing standard for the digital era, giving instructions on what information about a library resource to include on a bib. record. RDA is a set of guidelines that indicates how to describe a resource, focusing on the pieces of information (attributes) that users most likely need to know. RDA is also concerned with the "relationships" in bibliographic data, relationships between related resources and between resources and persons. RDA is based on the principle of providing general guidelines for all potential library resources with exceptions and options for various circumstances. RDA is heavily influenced by FRBR and FRAD (see below). RDA commenced to be used as the cataloguing standard by the National Library of Australia and other libraries from April 2013.
Plates
[Description details] Are there any plates, illustrations, or maps. What are the dimensions of the book?pages/leaf/leaves; You will need to browse through the book to see if there are any Roman numeral pages, known as preliminary pages close to the start of the book. Are there an Arabic numbers printed on the book? Are any pages unnumbered? You will need to add to the bib. record the last printed page of the preliminary pages and the last printed page of the book.
Series note
is there one in the book? Not all books have a series title. Usually located on the page opposite the title page.
Original cataloguing
It is the role of the cataloguer to create a new bibliographic record for new library resources by entering bibliographic information, i.e. the description of the resource, onto a bib. record. This is known as original cataloguing.
Library Catalogues
A library catalogue is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries. A bibliographic record can be any information entity, e.g. book, computer file, map, photograph, etc., that is considered a library material and is owned by the library or may simply be information linked from the catalogue to another source such as an on-line database. The catalogue contains individual bibliographic records for those items. These bibliographic records contain a description of that resource - book, map, photograph, etc. This description is composed of a series of individual bibliographic elements. Library users can access these bibliographic records by accessing the library's OPAC (On-line Public Access Catalogue).
Resource Description and Access (RDA)
RDA is the new cataloguing standard for the digital era, giving instructions on what information about a library resource to include on a bib. record. RDA is a set of guidelines that indicates how to describe a resource, focusing on the pieces of information (attributes) that users most likely need to know.
International Standard for Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
ISBD are a set of rules produced by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to create bibliographic description in a standard, human-readable form
Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC) DDC is the classification system used to assign shelf numbers to library resources. WebDewey, 23rd edition is the current on-line classification system used to assign Dewey numbers to resources.
Schools Cataloguing Information Service (SCIS)
SCIS is a range of subscription-based products specifically for the needs of school libraries throughout Australia, New Zealand and overseas, including a subject heading list
Dublin Core
Is a set of metadata (data about data) terms used to describe resources. This display and content standard is not yet widely used in Australian libraries but is sometimes used in associated facilities like archives and museums.
Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)
FRAD is another conceptual entity-relationship model about authority data in a library catalogue as opposed to the bibliographic data.
Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC)
The OCLC is a worldwide library co-operative, providing services and research to improve access to the world's information.
IFLAThe International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession.
UNESCO
UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences and Culture. UNESCO's programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in Agenda 2030, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015.
Monograph is a book
JISC (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)) was established on 1 April 1993 under the terms of letters of guidance from the Secretaries of State to the newly established Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and Wales, inviting them to establish a Joint Committee to deal with networking and specialist information services.
CX Customer Experience
bib record is a bibliographic record of an object in a Library’s collection
SDI Selective Dissemination of Information services; librarians choose information that may be of interest to their users and forward it to them before the users request it.
OPAC on-line public access catalog
LCV Lifetime Customer Value
Appleation noun formal a name or title: the city fully justifies its appellation ‘the Pearl of the Orient’. [mass noun] the action of giving a name to someone or something.
nomen
noun
the second personal name of a citizen of ancient Rome that indicated the gens to which he or she belonged, e.g. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Compare with cognomen, praenomen, agnomen.
RDA and AACR2 - Content Standard This tells you what information to put in the record.
MARC 21 - Encoding Standard This tells you how the information is stored and presented in the record.
ISBD - Description Standard This tells you how to identify the information in the record.
Musical/Music Is recorded as Music in MARC
Sound Recordings Audio/Sound/CD/DVD etc Sound