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Information Storage and Retrieval Jovita Kaur, Lovely Professional University

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Unit 4: Cataloguing–Development and Trends

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction

4.1 International Standard Bibliographic Description
4.2 Summary

4.3 Keywords

4.4 Review Questions
4.5 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Describe international standard bibliographic description
• Define structure of an ISBD record.

Introduction

Cataloguing is the process of listing or includes something in a Catalogue. In library science is the
producing of bibliographical descriptions of books or other kinds of documents. Today the study of
Cataloguing has broaden and merged with the study of metadata (“data about data contents”) and is
sometimes termed resource description and access.
The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is intended to serve as a principal standard
to promote universal bibliographic control, that is, to make universally and promptly available, in a
form that is internationally acceptable, basic bibliographic data for all published resources in all
countries.

Explain the common cataloguing methods used in national level in India.

4.1 International Standard Bibliographic Description

The main goal of the ISBD has been since the beginning, to provide consistency when sharing
bibliographic information. The ISBD is the standard that determines the data elements to be recorded
or transcribed in a specific sequence as the basis of the description of the resource being catalogued.
In addition, it employs prescribed punctuation as a means of recognizing and displaying data elements
and making them understandable independently of the language of the description.

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