A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification - Hardcover

Snow, Karen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1538100665 ISBN 13: 9781538100660

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

A Practical Guide to Library of Congress Classification is a hands-on introduction to LC Classification.

The book examines each part of the LCC call number and how it is assembled and guides the reader through each step of finding and constructing LCC class numbers in Classification Web (the primary resource used to access LCC).

Chapter coverage is complete:

1. Introduction
2. Library of Congress Classification in a Nutshell
3. Breaking Down the Library of Congress Call Number
4. Dates
5. Cutters
6. LCC in Classification Web
7. Basic LCC Call Number Building
8. Advanced Call Number Building
9. Classifying Fiction in LCC
10. Finding and using LCC Resources

Exercises at the end of most chapters give readers immediate practice with what they just learned. Answers to the exercises are provided at the end of the book. By the end of the book readers will be able to build an LCC call number on their own.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Karen Snow is associate professor and PhD program director in the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. She teaches cataloging, classification, and metadata courses and has written several journal articles on cataloging topics and cataloging education. Snow holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of North Texas (UNT), where she cataloged for UNT's main library, the Rare Book Room, and the University Archives

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1538100665
• ISBN 13: 9781538100660
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 170
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland