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Unit 8: Library Cataloguing

Full authority work will be performed for all names used as access points. A series access (added Notes
entry) will also be provided as necessary as a third or fourth access point and series authority
records will be created. All authority records created are submitted to NACO as specified in the
Authority Record Policy document.
Note: Prior to 2012, authority records created for limited level cataloguing were not submitted to NACO.

8.8.4 Archival Level Cataloguing

Archival level cataloguing consists of a record created according to the standards specified in
Archival Moving Image Materials: a Cataloguing Manual. Authority work for archival level
cataloguing is submitted to NACO.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:

15. ………………..cataloguing consists of an Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition,
1998 (AACR2) level 2 bibliographic record, with all needed access points, including full
subject analysis.
16. …………………cataloguing consists of an Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, revised
2nd edition, 1998 (AACR2) level 1 bibliographic record with, generally, two bibliographic
access points.

Case Study The Online Library Catalogue: Paradise Lost and
Paradise Regained?

he impetus for this essay is the library community’s uncertainty regarding the
present and future direction of the library catalogue in the era of Google and mass
Tdigitization projects. The uncertainty is evident at the highest levels. Deanna
Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress (LC), is struck
by undergraduate students who favour digital resources over the online library catalogue
because such resources are available at any time and from anywhere. She suggests that
“the detailed attention that we have been paying to descriptive cataloguing may no longer
be justified retooled cataloguers could give more time to authority control, subject analysis,
[and] resource identification and evaluation”.

LC commissioned Karen Calhoun (2006) to prepare a report on “revitalizing” the online
library catalogue. Calhoun’s directive is clear: divert resources from cataloguing mass-
produced formats (e.g., books) to cataloguing the unique primary sources (e.g., archives,
special collections, teaching objects, research by-products). She sums up her rationale for
such a directive, “The existing local catalogue’s market position has eroded to the point
where there is real concern for its ability to weather the competition for information
seekers’ attention”. At the University of California Libraries (2005), a task force’s
recommendations parallel those in Calhoun report especially regarding the elimination
of subject headings in favour of automatically generated metadata.
The Reign of the Online Catalogue
By the early 1980s, a critical mass of online catalogue deployment had been achieved
across the United States. A nationwide survey demonstrated that over 80% of library users
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