Access Point : Glossary of Library & Information Science

ACCESS POINT ➨ A name, term, code, heading, word, phrase etc., a unit of information representing a specific entity that can serve as a search key in information retrieval, under which a library catalog or bibliographic database may be searched and library materials may be identified and retrieved.

In a catalog, index, or other organized systems some examples of access points are, author,

Resource Access : Glossary of Library & Information Science

RESOURCE ACCESS ➨ That portion of cataloging in which access points are selected and formulated by a cataloger.


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Resource Description : Glossary of Library & Information Science

RESOURCE DESCRIPTION ➨ Resource Description is a set of data recording and identifying an entity. It is the process or the product of creating a bibliographic or metadata record (a surrogate) or a brief representation containing essential attributes describing an information resource, based on established standards, such as Resource Description and Access (RDA) or Anglo-American Cataloging

Resource : Glossary of Library & Information Science

RESOURCE ➨ A work, expression, manifestation or item. The term includes not only an individual entity but also aggregates and components of such entities (e.g., three sheet maps, a single slide issued as part of a set of twenty, an article in an issue of a scholarly journal). It may refer to a tangible entity (e.g., a book, a DVD, an audiocassette, serials, sound recordings, moving images,

Authority Control : Glossary of Library & Information Science

AUTHORITY CONTROL ➨ Authority Control is a process that organizes bibliographic information in library catalogs by using a single, distinct spelling of a name (heading) or a subject for each topic, called as authority record. Authority Record is a record which gives the authoritative form (the form selected for a heading) of a personal name, corporate name, family name, place name, uniform or

Subject Cataloging : Glossary of Library & Information Science

SUBJECT CATALOGING ➨ Subject Cataloging involves subject analysis of the resource and providing corresponding subject headings from a controlled vocabulary or subject heading list, such as Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), Medical Subject Headings (MESH) and assignment of classification numbers using schemes such as Library of Congress Classification (LCC) or Dewey Decimal

Descriptive Cataloging : Glossary of Library & Information Science

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGING ➨ Descriptive Cataloging includes recording the attributes of a library item, such as the name of author(s), contributor(s), title, edition, publisher, distributor, date, the number of pages, its size, name of series, etc. Descriptive Cataloging enables the user to find and identify a book, by the name of the author, the title, variant titles, etc. Two popular standards