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Unit 4: Cataloguing–Development and Trends

4.2 Summary Notes

• The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is intended to serve as a princi-
pal standard to promote universal bibliographic control.
• 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.
• The ISBD provides consistent stipulations for description of all types of published resources,
to the extent that uniformity is possible, and specific stipulations for specific types of resources
as required to describe those resources.

4.3 Keywords

Volume(s) : Some works comprise several bound books.
Page(s) : Number of arabic-numeral-numbered pages that make up the main body of the book.

4.4 Review Questions

1. What is the objective of the ISBD?
2. Mention the key function of ISBD.
3. Describe the structure of an ISBD record.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. (b) 2. (d)
3. Bibliographic information 4. Elements, areas.

4.5 Further Readings

Best, DP, Ed. The fourth resource: information and its management. Aldershot: Aslib,
1996.
Cooke, A : A guide to finding quality Information on the Internet. 2nd Edition.
London: Facet Publishing, 2001.
Deegan, M. and Simon Tanner. Digital futures. London. LA, 2002.

Online links http://bcpwww.csu.edu.au/faculty/educat/sis/CIS/3365/
www.wikipedia.com.

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