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Unit 14: Development and Trends in Library Cataloguing

WorldCat permits searching their catalog by ISSN by entering “issn:”+ISSN code in the Notes
query field. One can also go directly to an ISSN’s record by appending it to http://www.
worldcat.org/ISSN/, e.g. http://www.worldcat.org/ISSN/1021-9749. This does not query
the ISSN Register itself but rather shows whether any Worldcat library holds an item with
the given ISSN.

Use in URNs

An ISSN can be encoded as a Uniform Resource Name, (URN) by prefixing it with “urn:issn:”. For
example Rail could be referred to as “urn:issn:1534-0481”. If the checksum digit is “X” then it is
always encoded in uppercase in a URN.

14.11 Recent Trend in Cataloguing

The recent ever-expanding growth of information and information technology has forced significant
change upon the theory and especially the practices of cataloguing. Cataloguers cooperate on a
global basis to unify cataloguing standards, rules, and practices that enable the global sharing of
information resources. To pursue professional ethics in creating timely and high quality records,
cataloguers have developed a new mindset to deal with the increased complexity. Current and
emerging trends in cataloguing include the use of an increasing number of online tools, the
management of materials in new formats, providing multilingual options, developing metadata
schemes, metadata creation, extraction, and manipulation, and cataloguing for diverse user
environments and audiences.

Task Discuss recent developments and trends in cataloguing.

Self Assessment
State Whether the Following Statements are True or False:
5. The information recorded in the tape form by the Library of Congress is known as “MARC
TAPE”.
6. Library of Congress distributed the MARC II tapes to libraries from March 1970.
7. UNIMARK has been developed for the purpose of international exchange of bibliographic
data in a machine readable form.
8. The concept of inclusion of catalogue entry in each book on publication was initiated by
Dr. S. R. Ranganathan.
9. Creation of a union catalogue on the basis of data supplied by individual libraries is a good
example of pre-natal cataloguing.
10. The purpose of CCF is to permit exchange of bibliographic records between groups of
libraries.

14.12 Summary

Under the headship of A.H. Chaplin, a committee was constituted to start the preliminary
work. In 1974, the International Standard Bibliographic Description for monographic pub-
lications (ISBD M) was published.
In a classified catalogue, the class to which the book belongs is considered as important.
But in a Dictionary Catalogue the author is considered as important, i.e. the main entry in
a Dictionary Catalogue is prepared under the author.
Descriptive Cataloguing has been defined as “that phase of the process of cataloguing
which concerns itself with the identification and description of books”.
The information thus recorded in the tape form by the Library of Congress is known as
‘MARC TAPE’.

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