Manheimer's Cataloging and Classification, Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded

by Jerry D. Saye, April J. Bohannan

This work has been revised and updated to include the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd ed), the Dewey Decimal System Classification (21st ed) and the Library of Congress Classification Schedules. The text details the essential elements of the International Standard Bibliographic Description; introduces the associated OCLC/MARC specifications; and more. The CD-ROM gives more than 500 PowerPoint slides and graphics identical to the text, in addition to scans of the title page, and title page verso and other illustrations that support examples from Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (2nd ed).

Genres: Library Science

416 pages, Hardcover

First published September 9, 1999

Reviews

[Penny]

What I don't want to do for a living. Kudos to you that do!

[Joan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful read for a cataloging class.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

You know you're a librarian when... you have a book on how to catalog in your library. This was the textbook for my graduate level cataloging class. It is a scintillating look at how to catalog many things in life. [return][return]My professor was in fact Dr. Saye, the author, and that still didn’t make the class much fun. [return][return]That is why Library Thing is such a boon. It harvests the MARC for you saving everyone the trouble of learning the boring nature of cataloging. WooHoo Z39.50.[return][return]The textbook is dry and at times not very useful. It reads, well it doesn’t read because it is more instructional with visual examples. Use at your own risk.

[Mk · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is mind numbing.

The enclosed CD is significantly more helpful than the book since it shows the cover pages that the bibliographic information is being gleaned from. The book is just hundreds of pages of one-sentence, not elaborated on rules.

That said, I'm not sure how you would go about making AACR and MARC formatting interesting...

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book for learning cataloging because it has tons of examples. There is some text but it is often outdated and not that useful. The book is mostly examples, which helped me immensely in my cataloging course this term.

[Val · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book and is easy to read and understand. I must-have is you are going to be a cataloger.