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Weekly Reading List

You may find it easier to read assigned readings after we discuss topics in class. For example, between today, September 9 and next Friday, September 16, you should have read everything listed for week 1 below. After week 1, several numbered items are prefaced by the word "Consult." These items are ones that you must consult to complete tasks and assignments. They are not ones you could (or would want to) read from beginning to end.

The table below is SI 666's weekly reading list.
Topic Week Reading
0
Before class meets on 9/9
  1. Chan, Lois Mai. 2016. Cataloging and classification: an introduction. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. *Hereafter called CHAN.* Chapter 1, page 3 to bottom of page 14 and middle of page 23 to bottom third of page 27.
1
9/9
  1. Bates, Marcia J. 2003. "Improving User Access to Library Catalog and Portal Information: Final Report." Focus only on her discussion of the Resnikoff-Dolby 30:1 rule in the section entitled "3C. Staging of Access to Resources in the Interface," pages 26 to 29. (Available in the Canvas PDFs folder.)
  2. CHAN. Chapter 1, bottom of page 14 to middle of page 23, bottom third of page 27 to 29.
  3. CHAN. Chapter 2, read sections entitled "Bibliographic Description and Surrogate Records" on pag 47, "Contributions to Cataloging Theory" on page 47, "Cutter's Principles" on page 48 and 49, "International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)" on pages 51 and 52, "Functional Requirements for BIbliographic Records (FRBR)" on pags 53 and 54, "Metadata Schemes on page 54," "Cutter's Rules (1876)" on page 55, all the "Anglo-American Cataloging Rules" sections on pages 58 to the top of page 62, and "Resource Description and Access (RDA)" on pages 62 and 63. Lightly read and acknowledge the rest of the many cataloging standards, codes, and rules that lead up to ISBD, FRBR, and RDA.
  4. CHAN. Chapter 5, page 145 through half of page 153 and the section entitled "International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)" on the bottom of page 158 to middle of 161.
  5. Taylor, Arlene G. 2007. "An introduction to Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)." In Understanding FRBR, edited by Arlene G. Taylor. Weston, CT: Libraries Unlimited, pages 1-19. (PDF available in the Canvas PDFs folder)
  6. Tillett, Barbara. 2003. "What is FRBR: a conceptual model for the bibliographic universe?" Reprinted from Technicalities 25, 5 (Sept./Oct.). (PDF available in the Canvas PDFs folder)
  7. Note: Also in the Canvas PDF folder are the FRBR, FRAD, and FRSAD reports for your information only.
2
9/16
  1. CHAN. Chapter 5, second half of page 161 to middle of page 165.
  2. CHAN. Chapter 6. This is a long detailed chapter. Focus on the sections that duplicate the description elements we cover in class (e.g., title proper, other title info, variant title, statement of responsibility, edition, publication statement, series statement, carriers, double-checking this coverage in your PowerPoint slides. Read other sections lightly, particulary those addressing description elements of other formats such as serials, music, realia, maps, video, etc.
  3. CHAN. Chapter 1, middle of page 23 up to the section entitled The Authority Record on page 36. If we didn't have time to cover MARC in class today, read these pages next week.
  4. CHAN. Chapter 3, pages 69 to 89. If we didn't have time to cover MARC in class today, read these pages next week.
  5. Joudrey, Daniel N., Arlene G. Taylor, and David P. Miller. 2015. Introduction to cataloging and classification. 11th ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. Chapter 23 entitled "International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)." (PDF available in the Canvas PDFs folder)
  6. To formulate descriptions, consult the RDA Toolkit as needed. To code your description in ISBD, consult Table 23.1 in Joudrey's chapter.
  7. To code MARC records, consult the OCLC bibliographic formats and standards as needed. If we don't have time to cover MARC in class today, postpone this task until next week.
3
9/23
  1. CHAN. Chapter 7, middle of page 261 to the middle of page 264.
  2. CHAN. Chapter 9, pages 429 to bottom third of page 455.
  3. If we didn't have time to cover MARC last week, read pages given in entries #3 and #4 on 9/23 above.
  4. To choose access points, consult RDA Toolkit and this week's PowerPoint slides.
4
9/30
  1. CHAN. Chapter 1, bottom of page 37 to page 43.
  2. CHAN. Chapter 5, section entitled "Functional Requierments for Authority Data (FRAD)" on the middle of page 153 to 157, and from the middle of page 165 to 169.
  3. CHAN. Chapter 8, page 331 to top of page 340, plus the sections named "Putting It All Together: Identifying Persons" on pages 369 and 370, "Putting It All Together: Identifying Families" on pages 385 and 386, and "Putting It All Together: Identifying a Corporate Body" on pages 420 and 421. You might want to lightly scan the whole chapter that gives direction to LC and NACO catalogers researching access points for personal names, families, and corporate bodies and formulating authority records for LCNAF.
  4. To formulate authorized access points, consult the OCLC bibliographic formats and standards, RDA Toolkit, and LC Authorities as needed.
5
10/7
  1. CHAN. Chapter 5, read section entitled "Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data" on pages 157 and 158.
  2. CHAN. Chapter 10.
  3. Read and scan all introductory material in the Library of Congress subject headings. 2010. 32nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Consult LCSH to assign subject headings for your assignment. (Available in the Student Lounge or at many campus libraries. Note: Libraries may have a more recent version than the Lounge and that is fine.)
  4. To determine authorized forms of headings and to apply MARC coding to subject headings in bibliographic records, consult the Library of Congress Authority Files and OCLC bibliographic formats and standards, respectively, as needed.
6
10/14
  1. CHAN. Chapter 11.
  2. Subject headings manual. 2008/2009. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. Consult this manual to formulate subdivided subject headings for your assignment.(Available in the Student Lounge only)
  3. To determine authorized forms of headings and to apply MARC coding to subject headings in bibliographic records, consult the Library of Congress Authority Files and OCLC bibliographic formats and standards, respectively, as needed.
7
10/21
  1. CHAN. Chapter 15.
  2. CHAN. Chapter 16, pages 595 to the bottom third of page 607
  3. Dewey, Melvil. 2011. Dewey decimal classification and relative index. 23rd ed. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC. Read the introduction, pages xxxvii to "(A) Adding Standard Subdivisions from Table 1." You can download the introduction at the OCLC Dewey Services web site but it may be advantageous to have the 4 volumes in hand while you read it.
  4. C.A. Cutter's three-figure author table. 1969. Chicopee, Mass.: H. R. Huntting Co. (Available in the Canvas PDFs folder) Consult this table to complete call numbers. (Alternatively, test drive OCLC's Dewey Cutter Program on a PC.)
  5. To code call numbers in library cataloging records, consult the OCLC bibliographic formats and standards as needed.
8
10/28
  1. CHAN. Finish chapter 16.
  2. C.A. Cutter's three-figure author table. 1969. Chicopee, Mass.: H. R. Huntting Co. (Available in the Canvas PDFs folder) Consult this table to complete call numbers. (Alternatively, test drive OCLC's Dewey Cutter Program on a PC.)
  3. To code call numbers in library cataloging records, consult the OCLC bibliographic formats and standards as needed.
9
11/4
  1. Berman, Barbara. 1989. Form headings in subject cataloging. Resources & Technical Services 33, 2 (April): 134-139. (PDF available in the Canvas PDF folder.)
  2. ACRL. Bibliographic Standards Committee. 1991. Genre terms: a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloguing. 2nd ed. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries. Consult this as need to assign genre headings. (PDF available in the Canvas PDFs folder)
  3. To code "isness" terms in the fixed fields and the genre field of library cataloging records, consult the OCLC bibliographic formats and standards as needed.
10
11/11
  1. CHAN. Chapter 4, page 113 to middle of page 122. Consider lightly scanning the rest of the chapter, becoming famiiar with more metadata schemas/
  2. CHAN. Chapter 3, section entitled "Dublin Core (DC)" on page 106 and figure 3.8 on page 107.
  3. Coleman, Anita. 2005. From cataloging to metadata: Dublin Core records for the library catalog. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 40, 3/4: 153-181. (Available online via U-M Library, search by journal)
  4. To apply DC, consult the Dublin Core metadata element set and Using Dublin Core: The elements.
11
11/18
 
 
11/25
 Thanksgiving break. Enjoy!
12
12/2
  1. CHAN. Chapter 3, section entitled "Bibliographic Framework (BIBFRAME)" on pages 104 to 106.
  2. Joudrey, Daniel N., Arlene G. Taylor, and David P. Miller. 2015. Introduction to cataloging and classification. 11th ed. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. Chapter 24 entitled "Cataloging Management and Support." (PDF available in the Canvas PDFs folder)
  3. Kroger, Angela. 2013. "The road to BIBFRAME: The evolution of the idea of bibliographic transition into a post-MARC future." Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 51, 8: 873-890.
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12/9
 Last day of class.
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