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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes 2. Edition Area
3. Material or type of resource specific area (for example, the scale of a map or the numbering
of a periodical)

4. Publication, production, distribution, etc., area
5. Physical description area (for example: number of pages in a book or number of CDs
issued as a unit)

6. Series area
7. Notes area
8. Resource identifier (e.g. ISBN, ISSN) and terms of availability area
ISBD(A) is governing the antiquarian bibliographic publications, which could apply to the ones
in archaeology, museum, antique auction or canonical texts, etc.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
16. …………………….is important to national development because of the importance of
information dissemination and preservation of culture and history.
17. ………………..is very important to publishers because it helps users to identify basic
information easily.
18. The first of the ISBDs was the International Standard Bibliographic Description for
Monographic Publications (ISBD(M)), which appeared in………………….

Case Study International Standard Bibliographic Description
(ISBD)

The Use of International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) and the Quality of
Books Published in Nigeria
A continuing information explosion has driven some authors to patronize these publishers
who do not meet the standards of ISBD. Some Nigerian publishes do not observe basic
ISBD requirements, and the title pages of many publications are either missing or are lack
basic information. Too much time is spent on trying to identify authorship. This study
examines the use of ISBD and the quality of Nigerian published books.

The populations are all publishers and Nigerian published books in the Universities of
Calabar, Uyo, and Port Harcourt Libraries. One thousand books were sampled from these
three university libraries and 250 publishers were also sampled. One hypothesis was
formulated to guide the study.
Data were analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC). The
observation made from the documentary evidence from the three university libraries and
the publishers guided the discussion of findings as presented in the tables shown below.

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