Cataloging for School Librarians

Marie Kelsey, Ph.D., professor emerita, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, recently completed a forty-year career in librarianship, twenty-seven of which were devoted to cataloging and technical services in academic libraries. She is also a licensed K-12 librarian and retired director of the Educational Media and Technology program at St. Scholastica. Dr. Kelsey earned her master’s degree in English at Bemidji State University and her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has authored several articles on cataloging and other aspects of school librarianship. In 2006, her book Ulysses S. Grant, A Bibliography (Praeger, 2005) was named one of the five best bibliographies of the year in history by the Reference & User Services Association (ALA) History Section’s Bibliography and Indexes Committee. Jen Spisak, Ph.D., assistant professor, Longwood University, has spent over two decades in the field of education with experience as a teacher, school librarian, and assistant professor. She has previously been honored as her school’s Teacher of the Year and as the Virginia Association of School Librarians School Librarian of the Year. She currently teaches cataloging to school librarianship students. Dr. Spisak earned her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction and her endorsement in Library Media and her Ph.D. in Educational Research and Evaluation from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Multimedia Learning Stations: Facilitating Instruction, Strengthening the Research Process, Building Collaborative Partnerships as well as a number of articles in the field of school librarianship.

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Preface

Part I. Essential Information

 1  History of the Library Catalog, Cataloging Standards, and Access to Resources

 2 Understanding Cataloging in Publication (CIP)

Part II. Descriptive Cataloging

 3  Catalog Records and Primary and Added Access Points

 4 Creating Authorized Forms of Names

 5 Creating MARC 21 Records

 6 Cataloging Books

 7 Cataloging Nonprint and Electronic Materials

8 Cataloging Serials, Books in Series, and Graphic Novels

Part III. Subject Cataloging and Classification

9 Using Sears List of Subject Headings

10 Using Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification

11 Building Dewey Numbers in Three Major Areas

12 Special Sections in the School Library

Part IV. Conclusion

13 Obtaining Online Catalog Bibliographic Records

Appendix A. RDA Sample Records in MARC from OCLC

Appendix B. Key to the Quizzes

Appendix C. 300 & 344 Field Tags

Appendix D. Formatting “Cheat Sheet” for 336, 337, & 338 Field Tags

Appendix E. Helpful Websites

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors