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This quarterly publication of the Library of Congress incorporates revisions in both descriptive cataloging practice and subject cataloging usage. Each issue contains an index to all the current Library of Congress Rule Interpretations, the new interpretations, and revisions to the LC subject headings. Publication ceased with no. 128, Fall 2010.
Code for classifiers: principles governing the consistent placing of books in a system of classification. Chicago: American Library Association, 1969.
This code of 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."
Connexion Client Documentation: http://www.oclc.org/support/services/connexion/documentation/client.en.html
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This list is an index to the free-floating subdivisions in the Subject Cataloging Manual, including a listing for each subdivision of the free-floating lists where it appears. It also contains citations for subdivisions with specific instruction sheets in the Subject Cataloging Manual.
GNIS geographic names information system: digital gazetteer. U.S. Geological Survey, National Mapping Division. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/
GNIS is the official repository of domestic geographic names information.
Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items. Bethesda, Md.: NISO Press, 1999. (ANSI/NISO Z39.71-1999)
Index to the Library of Congress Cataloging Service Bulletin. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
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Provides technical documentation for the MARC standard, including MARC Code Lists for countries, geographic areas, languages, organization, relators, and sources.
Merriam-Webster's geographical dictionary. Springfield, Mass., U.S.A.: Merriam-Webster, 2001.
An alphabetical listing of place names worldwide.
National Union Catalog. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
Beginning with the Pre-1956 Imprints (known as Mansell for its publisher) and continuing through 1982, "the National Union Catalog represents the works cataloged by the Library of Congress and by the libraries contributing to its cooperative cataloging program during the period of its coverage." Use as a possible source for cataloging of older works when they are not to be found in OCLC, but keep in mind the cataloging may not conform to current rules.
Notes in the catalog record based on AACR2 and LC rule interpretations. Chicago: American Library Association, 1989.
A collection and analysis of notes includes for each type of note (language, source of title proper, contents, etc.) the AACR2 rules, the LC policy, brief discussion, and examples.
OCLC Technical Bulletin: http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/technicalbulletins.en.html
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OCLC cataloging documentation including Technical Bulletins and online error-reporting forms.
Rand McNally Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide. New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1992.
Used for current place names in the United States. Shelved with reference atlases - G1019 .R28.
RDA toolkit. Chicago : American Library Association, 2010. http://access.rdatoolkit.org.ezproxy.rice.edu/
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The Manual contains the instructions used by subject catalogers at LC in order to understand and to apply subject headings correctly. The publication Free-Floating Subdivisions: An Alphabetical Index serves as an index to the free-floating subdivisions in the Manual. The CSB (see above) contains information on the most important topics which have been changed since the latest edition of the Manual.
OTHER RESOURCES
Geological Survey (U.S.). GNIS geographic names information system: digital gazetteer. U.S. Geological Survey, National Mapping Division. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/
GNIS is the official repository of domestic geographic names information.
Merriam-Webster, Inc. Merriam-Webster's geographical dictionary. Springfield, Mass., U.S.A.: Merriam-Webster, 2001.
An alphabetical listing of place names worldwide.
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 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."
National Information Standards Organization. Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items. Bethesda, Md.: NISO Press, 1999. (ANSI/NISO Z39.71-1999)
Rand McNally and Company. Rand McNally commercial atlas and marketing guide. New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1992.
Used for current place names in the United States. Shelved with reference atlases - G1019 .R28.
Saye, Jerry D., and Sherry L. Vellucci. Notes in the catalog record based on AACR2 and LC rule interpretations. Chicago: American Library Association, 1989.
A collection and analysis of notes includes for each type of note (language, source of title proper, contents, etc.) the AACR2 rules, the LC policy, brief discussion, and examples.
MUSIC RESOURCES
Bratcher, Perry and Smith, Jennifer. Music Subject Headings. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1988.
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Indiana University. Worldwide Internet Music Resources. http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
SERIALS
This is for serials resources
MAPS
This is for map/atlases resources