Ranganathan's Law Cataloging 101

1. JEHN MARIE A. SIMON BLIS-3

2.  Books are for use.
 Every book its reader.
 Every reader his book.
 Save the time of the reader.
 A library is a growing organism.
These should underpin best practice in every area of information provision.
Each pertains to the catalogue.

4.  1841 Panizzi’s 91 rules
1852 Charles Coffin Jewett’s code
1853 Charles Coffin Jewett’s code (2nd ed.)
1867 Rules for cataloguing in congressional library
1876 C A Cutter’s rules for a printed dictionary
catalogue
1883 ALA’s condensed rules for an author and title
catalogue
1889 Cutter’s rules for a dictionary catalogue (2nd
ed.)
1891 Cutter’s rules for a dictionary catalogue (3rd
ed.)
1902 ALA’s condensed rules for an author and title
catalogue (Advanced ed.)
1904 Cutter’s rules for a dictionary catalogue (4th
ed.)
1905 Library of Congress supplementary rules on
cataloguing

5. 
1906 Library of Congress special rules on
cataloguing
1908 ALA and BLA’s cat rules: author & title
entries
1927 Vatican code
1931 Ranganathan’s classified catalogue code
1931 Pierson’s guide to the cataloguing of serials
publications
1949 Rules for descriptive cataloguing in the LC
1961 Paris Principles
1967 AACR I (North American and British Text)
1968 MARC
1971 ISBD
1978 AACR II

6. What is Cataloguing?
- cataloging (or cataloguing) is the
process of creating metadata representing
information resources, such as books, sound
recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging
provides information such as creator names,
titles, and subject terms that describe
resources, typically through the creation
of bibliographic records.

8.  provides the philosophical basis
of cataloging, defining the rules
for sufficiently describing
information resources to enable
users to find and select the most
appropriate resource.

9.  is an individual responsible for the
processes of description, subject
analysis, classification, and authority
control of library materials.
Catalogers serve as the "foundation
of all library service, as they are the
ones who organize information in
such a way as to make it easily
accessible".

12.  Description
(describing the item we have in
front of us)
 Access
(providing access / entry points to
assist in searching)

13.  "Descriptive cataloging" is a well-
established concept in the tradition
of library cataloging in which a
distinction is made between
descriptive cataloging and subject
cataloging, each applying a set of
standards, different qualifications
and often also different kinds of
professionals.

14.  In the tradition of documentation
and information science (e.g., by
commercial bibliographical
databases) the concept document
representation (also as verb:
document representing) have mostly
been used to cover both
"descriptive" and "subject"
representation.

15.  Descriptive cataloging has been
defined as "the part of cataloging
concerned with describing the
physical details of a book, such as
the form and choice of entries and
the title page transcription."

16.  AACR2R tells us such things as:
 Where to take the title from
 What to do if there is no publisher
 How to count pages
 How to make consistent headings
for things such as names and
places

18.  Classification
(applying a classification scheme
so that all items on the same
subject are collocated on a
browsable shelf)
 Indexing
(assigning subject headings to
assist in searching)

19.  Subject cataloging may take the form
of classification or (subject)
indexing. Classification involves the
assignment of a given document to a
class in a classification system (such
as Dewey Decimal Classification or
the Library of Congress Subject
Headings).

21.  The Decimal Classification
introduced the concepts of relative
location and relative index which
allow new books to be added to a
library in their appropriate location
based on subject

24. 1. Title and statement of responsibility area
2. Edition area
3. Material or type of resource specified area
4. Publication, production, distribution, etc., area
5. Physical description area
6. Series area
7. Note area
8. Resource identifier and terms of availability area

26.  Anglo-American Rules, 1908
 American Library Association rules, 1949
 Library of Congress rules, 1949
 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR),
1967
 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second
Edition (AACR2),1978
 Revised Anglo-American Cataloging Rules
(AACR2-R), 1988, 1990, 2002

33.  is an XML schema based on the
common MARC21 standards. MAR
CXML was developed by
the Library of Congress and adopted
by it and others as a means of
facilitating the sharing of, and
networked access to, bibliographic
information.

34.  Simplicity of the schema
 Flexibility and extensibility
 Lossless and reversible conversion from
MARC
 Data presentation through XML
stylesheets
 MARC records updates and data
conversions through XML
transformations
 Existence of validation tools