Essential Cataloguing

John Bowman MA MA PhD MCLIP is Programme Director for Library and Information Studies at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London. He has many years’ practical experience of using and teaching Dewey and has been a member of the CILIP Dewey Decimal Classification Committee since 1985.

• 1. Background to cataloguing and AACR2 2. Structure of AACR2 and of the MARC 21 format 3. Description 4. Access points 5. Multipart works 6. Headings for persons 7. Headings for corporate bodies 8. Authority control 9. Uniform titles 10. Bibliography Appendix. Catalogue records in MARC 21 format for the examples in this book

"The book is written in an accessible manner providing a useful buffer to the slightly intimidating set of manuals that confront the novice cataloguer. Bowman is practical in his advice, which acknowledges the sometimes curious constructions that cataloguing sometimes creates. It is a brief introduction that, rightly, attempts to familiarize the reader with the basic principles, without trying to replace the actual manuals themselves."