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- ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards
Second Edition Abridged
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
Chapter 6: Separately Published Monographs
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Can You Recommend a Good Book on Indexing?
Collected Reviews on the Organization of Information
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
In-depth reviews focusing on key considerations in the organization and retrieval of organization.
- Cataloging as Radical Practice
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Explores the extent to which new technologies and institutional practices are offering opportunities for community input in building/correcting/amplifying catalogue records.
- Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
The first English- language biography of Paul Otlet.
- The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006
Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The Calhoun report draws unjustified conclusions about the digital age, inflates wishful thinking, fails to make critical distinctions, and disregards (as well as mischaracterizes) an alternative “niche” strategy for research libraries, to promote scholarship (rather than increase “market position”).
- Docs Populi
Documents for the public
Resource Type: Website
Dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century.
- Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Resource Type: Website
An open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.
For DCMI metadata terms, see http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
See also: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#H2
- The Joy of Cataloging
Essays, Letters, Reviews and Other Explosions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
Berman is a cataloging librarian who has crusaded to reform subject headings that are out of date or offensive.
- Library of Congress Authorities
Resource Type: Database
Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations; and download authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system. This service is offered free of charge.
- Nonbook Materials
The Organization of Integrated Collections
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- "On the Record" but Off the Track
A Review of the Report of The Library of Congress Working Group on The Future of Bibliographic Control
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
- The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
An examination of the overall principles and practices of both reference service and cataloguing operations in the promotion of scholarly research, pointing out important differences not just in content available onsite and offsite, but also among necessary search techniques. It specifies the differences between scholarship and quick information seeking.
- Resolution on the Library of Congress Management's Decision to Cease the Production of Series Authority Records
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
- What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating its professional responsibilities to the national system of shared cataloging, as well as undermining its core mission to acquire, catalog, make accessible, and preserve its own unparalleled holdings – especially its book collections.
- Will Google's Keyword Searching Eliminate the Need for LC Cataloging and Classification?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
Google Print does not "change everything" regarding the need for professional cataloging and classification of books; its limitations make cataloging and classification even more important to researchers. Google’s keyword search mechanism, backed by the display of results in "relevance ranked" order, is expressly designed and optimized for quick information seeking rather than scholarship.
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