Minimal level cataloging: What does it mean for maps in the contexts of card catalogs, online catalogs, and digital libraries?
✍ Scribed by Ercegovac, Zorana
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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✦ Synopsis
In this article, we examine some of the proposals which While we have not learned as yet whether the provision have dealt with the problems in cataloging in two differfor briefer records (of possibly more materials) is better ent technological contexts: Printed-card catalogs and than none, we read that MLC, in general, ''has been online catalogs. We first look at some of the measures highly effective in providing such access through the onwhich attempted to deal with the ''crisis in cataloging'' line retrieval system by means of such elements of biblioat the Library of Congress in the 1940s. Then we address some of the current problems in cataloging in the era of graphic description as author, title, and series'' (Library online public access catalogs (OPACs). In particular, we of Congress, 1990, p. 48). Has the power of online catadiscuss the extent to which minimal-level cataloging, as logs, to some extent, compensated for minimal records defined by the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and of maps? In 1994, a Task Group appointed by the Cooperimplemented in the Online Computer Library Center ative Cataloging Council, now known as the Program for (OCLC᭨) database, works for maps. Our discussion is organized around two main groups of access points: Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), was charged to specify Controlled vocabulary data elements, including name a minimum set of data elements for the core record bibliodata elements, and free-text data elements. In closing, graphic standards for several formats. The core level catawe discuss prospects that the next generation of online loging would facilitate a ''national cooperative cataloging catalogs using the Z39.50 protocol and SGML format program that can help provide 'faster, better, cheaper' might offer to minimal-level cataloging for maps.
cataloging'' (http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/).
In this article, we examine proposals which attempted