Reference Sources and Quick Links
FONDREN'S LOCAL RESOURCES
The department's own homepage contains resources accessible on-line. The LCNA, OCLC's Bibliographic Formats and Standards, US MARC code lists, and the CONSER Editing Guide and CONSER Cataloging Manual are but a few of the useful references available through our homepage.
CATALOGING AND METADATA RESOURCES
Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed. 2002 Rev. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002. (For the most up-to-date information, please use Cataloger's Desktop)
AACR2 is the former source of rules for descriptive cataloging. "The rules cover the description of, and the provision of access points for ... library 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.
Authorities: Formats and Indexes: http://www.oclc.org/support/services/worldcat/documentation/authorities/authformat.en.html
Bibliographic Formats and Standards: http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en.html
Describes the format and tagging for MARC records in OCLC. Codes and usage for fixed fields are detailed. It contains information concerning the scope, indicators, and usage for each of the fixed and variable fields. It provides standards for input of MARC records, both original and retrospective cataloging bibliographic records, into the OCLC online union catalog. It contains guidelines for when to input a new record, when and how to upgrade a minimum level record, and report corrections.
Past and present publications of the Library of Congress, such as manuals, instructions and guidelines.
Cataloging Service Bulletin. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
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
Documentation on the Connexion client, including authorities and cataloging, as well as introductory tutorials.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Dublin Core is a small set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe web resources, physical resources, and objects. Dublin Core terms are used to describe materials in many open repositories, including the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive.
DC Terms List
DC Metadata Basics
Free-floating Subdivisions: An Alphabetical Index, 23rd ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2011. (Most recent information can be found in Cataloger's Desktop and in Classification Web.)
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, 2006. (ANSI/NISO Z39.71-2006)
Index to the Library of Congress Cataloging Service Bulletin. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
This supplies a subject index to the CSB through Fall of 1996.
LC Author Numbers. Castle Rock, Co.: Hi Willow, 1992.
In this guide to numbers assigned by LC to literary authors entries include indication of literary tables for prolific authors.
LC Period Subdivisions under Names of Places, 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1994.
Compiled from the online subject authority database at LC, this list contains only those time period subdivisions for materials which are in LC and "is, therefore, a list which is continually being revised." The preface contains a useful general discussion of period subdivision.
Library of Congress Classification Schedules. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. (Main classes of the Library of Congress Classification Schedule can be found here)
In these schedules the classification scheme of LC is set forth. The P schedule is accompanied by a separate volume of tables, Language and Literature Tables, with its own Additions and Changes. Many of the other schedules contain tables to be applied to their class numbers.
Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRI), 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1989. (Please refer to Cataloger's Desktop for most recent information.)
LCRI are interpretations of AACR2 for Library of Congress descriptive catalogers. A cumulative index to current interpretations is published in each issue of Cataloging Service Bulletin. Publication ceased with update 3 in 2010.
Library of Congress Subject Headings, 30th ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2007.
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 Desktop.
MARC Standards. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/marc/
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
OCLC Librarian's Toolbox: http://www.oclc.org/support/toolbox.en.html
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/
RDA toolkit contains the online version of Resource description and access (RDA), the current descriptive cataloging standard. It is an integrated, browser-based, online product that allows users to interact with a collection of cataloging-related documents and resources, including RDA: Resource Description and Access. RDA provides a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media. The RDA Toolkit includes: RDA instructions that are searchable and browsable; Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) rule number search of RDA instructions; workflows, mappings: tools to customize the RDA instruction set to support organizational training and processes; two views of RDA content--by table of contents and by element set; the full text of AACR2; links to other cataloging and metadata standards and resources.
Subject Cataloging Manual: Shelflisting, 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995.
A set of guidelines for shelflisting library materials in the ... Library of Congress - this offers guidance on creating call numbers.
Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings, 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1996.
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.
MUSIC RESOURCES
Bratcher, Perry and Smith, Jennifer. Music Subject Headings. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1988.
Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2nd Ed. New York: Books & Music (USA) Inc., 1987.*
Eitner, Robert. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Quellen-Lexicon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten christlicher Zeitrechnung bis Mitte neunzehn Jahrhunderts. 2nd Ed. 11 vols. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u.Verlagsanstalt, 1959-1960.*
Fetis, Francois-Joseph. Biographie Universelle des Musiciens. 8 vols. Bruxelles: Culture et Civilisation, 1972.*
Harstock, Ralph. Notes for Music Catalogers: Examples Illustrating AACR2 in the Online Bibliographic Record. 1st Ed. Lake Crystal, Minnesota: Soldier Creek Press, 1994.
Library of Congress. Classification. Class M. Music and Books on Music. Detroit: Gale Group, 2007.
Blume, Friedrich, ed. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 2. neubearbeitete Ausgabe. 26 vols. Edited by Friedrich Blume. Kassel: Barenreiter, 1994.*
Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 29 vols. London: Macmillan; Washington: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001.* Also online via the Brown Fine Arts page on the Fondren website.
OCLC. Indexes to the Established Titles, Variant Titles Obsolete Uniform Titles, and Work Numbers in the Library of Congress Name-Authority File for Works of Bach . . . et. al. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1988.
_________. _Scores Format. 2nd Ed. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1986.
_________. _Sound Recordings Format. 2nd Ed. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1986.
Riemann, Hugo. Musik-Lexicon. 5 vols. Mainz: B. Schott's Sohne, 1959-1972.*
_________. _Music Cataloging: The Bibliographic Control of Printed and Recorded Music in Libraries. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1989.
_________. _Describing Music Materials: A Manual for Descriptive Cataloging for Printed and Recorded Music, Music Videos, and Archival Music Collections. 3rd ed.Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1997.
Weitz, Jay. Music Coding and Tagging: MARC Content Designation for Scores and Sound Recordings. 2nd Ed. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 2001.
* Housed in the Music Reference section of Brown Library.
The thematic catalogues of individual composers, located in Music Reference (ML128 range), are an invaluable too for determining and assigning the proper uniform titles for "hard to identify" works.
MUSIC ONLINE RESOURCES
Yale University. Types of Compositions for Use in Music Uniform Titles. http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/types.htm
Music Library Association publications. http://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/?page=publications
SERIALS
Cooperative Online Serials Program (CONSER) home page. http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/
CONSER Cataloging Manual (CCM). http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/more-documentation.html
CONSER Editing Guide (CEG). http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/more-documentation.html
RDA CONSER Standard Record documentation (includes links to the original CONSER Standard Record). http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/issues/CSR.html
Greer, Beverley and Beatrice L. Caraway. Notes for Serials Cataloging. 2nd ed. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1998. (somewhat dated, but still useful)
Jones, Ed. RDA and Serials Cataloging. Chicago, Ill. : ALA Editions, 2013.
PCC/Provider Neutral e-resource guidelines. http://www.loc.gov/aba/scs/documents/PCC-PN-guidelines.html
MAPS
Cataloging sheet maps : the basics / Paige G Andrew New York : Haworth Information Press, 2003
G Classification Schedule. Detroit, MI : Gale Group, 1999. This edition includes a very detailed section on cuttering for both maps and atlases, and is also a necessity in establishing the geographical cross-references which exist between atlases-maps and maps-atlases.
The Lambert conformal conic projection : with two standard parallels, including a comparison of the Lambert Projection with the Bonne and polyconic projections / Charles H Deetz. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Cartography Division ; Special publication no. 47, 1918
Lambert Projection formula: webhelp.esri.com/argicdesktop/9.2/Index.cfm?id=134&pid=98&topicname=Lambert_Conformal_Conic
Map cataloging manual / Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1991.
Mercator Projection formula: mathworld.wolfram.com/MercatorProjection.html