Reference Sources and Quick Links

FONDREN LOCAL RESOURCES

 Fondren Library Technical Services.  “Fondren “Fondren Library Technical Services Homepage,” ” Fondren Library.  http://sparta.rice.edu/Fondren/Staff/ts.homepage.html (accessed May 25, 2007).

The department’s department’s own homepage contains resources accessible on-line.  The LCNA, OCLC’s OCLC’s Bibliographic Formats and Standards, US MARC code lists, and the CONSER Editing Guide  are but a few of the useful references available through our homepage.

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AACR2 is the source of our rules for descriptive cataloging.  “The “The rules cover the description of, and the provision of access points for ... library materials” materials” (p. 1)  It details when to use and how to determine the correct form of names and uniform titles.  The definitive glossary and rules governing capitalization, abbreviations, and use of numerals in catalog records are found in the appendices.

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LCSH lists the subject headings used at the Library of Congress. The introduction to volume I contains a discussion of subject headings, references, subdivisions, and pattern headings.  The quarterly CSB (see above) updates the annual edition with revisions to the LCSH and lists of subject headings of current interest.  The most current listing is LCSH Online, which we access via Cataloger’s Cataloger’s Desktop.

Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress.  “MARC “MARC Standards.”  ”  Library of Congress.  http://www.loc.gov/marc/  (Accessed May 25, 2007).

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Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress.  Subject Cataloging Manual: Shelflisting, 2^nd ed.  Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995.

“A “A set of guidelines for shelflisting library materials in the ... Library of Congress,” ” this offers guidance on creating call numbers.

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Merrill, William Stetson.  Code for classifiers:  principles governing the consistent placing of books in a system of classification.  Chicago:  American Library Association, 1969.

This code of “the “the principles by which books are to be assigned consistently and suitably to places in a system of book classification,” ” contains general principles and also codifies "widespread procedure in the classifying of books of certain types or ...topics."

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