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Unit 7: Sorting and Indexing

In a nutshell such are the emerging trends in cataloguing: Notes
• Importance of workforce planning taking into consideration
o Retirement and difficulty to find trained staff
• Increasing complexity of the cataloguing process as a result of
o The increasing number of online tools for cataloguers
o Rapid emergence of new formats
o Emphasis to indexing and metadata
o Cataloguing for diverse user environments and audiences.
• Growing need to provide multilingual cataloguing
• Increased rate of updates to cataloguing rules, subject headings and MARC 21.
• New type of presentation in OPACs prompted by
o the changes in user environments - cataloguers will need to include additional feature into
the bibliographic record, such as book cover art, reader reviews, book summaries, etc.
o application of new cataloguing rules in OPACs – cataloguers will need to create links
between the related records in the database, the expressions and manifestations of the
work.

Self Assessment

Multiple Choice Questions:
6. Using the 1999 UMLS metathesaurus, the authors processed a training set of ...... documents
with a concept-identification programme, whose output was manually analyzed.
(a) 100 (b) 200
(c) 300 (d) 400
7. Of 8, 745 matches in the training set, 7, 227 were true positives, whereas of 1, 701 matches in
the test set ...... .
(a) 1,278 (b) 1,288
(c) 1,298 (d) 1,308

7.5 Summary

• RDA will provide a set of guidelines and instructions on formulating descriptive data and
access point control data to support resource discovery.
• In the grammatical sort order (used mainly in older catalogues), the most important word of
the title is the first sort term.
• “Cataloguing is less and less represented in courses (at least in France), whilst it should be
more and more developed.
• The project at the University of Queensland is an evidence that there are ways to attract the
students to this challenging and, to my mind, satisfying profession.
• Development of new formats require modifications of the classification, bibliographic rules
and subjects headings.

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