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Unit 14: Canons and Principles for Library Catalogue

14.7 Summary Notes

A library catalogue (or library catalogue) is a register of all bibliographic items found in
a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations.

A catalogue also serves as an inventory or bookkeeping of what’s in the library.
A library catalogue serves the same purpose. It is a file of records for a library’s collection.
The catalogue provides multiple access points to the library’s collection.

Until the 1980s, most library catalogues consisted of 3" x 5" cards representing all the
materials in the collection.
ISBD is very important to publishers because it helps users to identify basic information
easily.
Publishing is indispensable in the knowledge industry.
The consolidated ISBD standardizes the cataloguing requirements for different types of
resources, and makes it easier to update requirements.
The ISBD Review Group reviews and revises the ISBDs, which are published by IFLA.
The ISBD prescribes eight areas of description.

14.8 Keywords

Alphabetical Catalogue: Alphabetical catalogues can be arranged in several ways: these can be
by the author, by the name of a person, by the title or by a specific subject.
Alphabetical Index: The alphabetical index to a classified catalogue, consisting of author, title,
subject entries, and other entries for collaborators, series, and editors of series and a host of cross
references is meant to support the classified part of the catalogue.
Bibliographic: A bibliographic item can be any information that is considered library material
or a group of library materials), or linked from the catalogue as far as it is relevant to the
catalogue and to the users (patrons) of the library.

Classified Catalogue: A classified catalogue is a form of subject catalogue. In this type of catalogue
in which the entries are arranged by the class number representing the subject of document,
which is according to the classification scheme chosen for a library.

Conference: A conference is generally understood as a meeting of several people to discuss a
particular topic.
International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD): The International Standard
Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is a set of rules produced by the International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to create a bibliographic description in a standard,
human-readable form, especially for use in a bibliography or a library catalogue.
Library Catalogue: A library catalogue (or library catalogue) is a register of all bibliographic
items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations.

Notation: A series or system of written symbols used to represent numbers, amounts, or elements
in something such as music or mathematics.
Principles: A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of
belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning.
Sequence: A particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other.

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