Section I, Chapter H
Reference Sources
1. FONDREN RESOURCES
Fondren Library Technical Services. “Fondren Library Technical Services Homepage,” Fondren Library. http://sparta.rice.edu/Fondren/Staff/ts.homepage.html (accessed May 25, 2007).
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 are but a few of the useful references available through our homepage.
2. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RESOURCES
Joint Steering Committee for the Revision of AACR2. Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed. 2002 Rev. Chicago: American Library Association, 2002.
AACR2 is the source of our 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.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. 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.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. Free-floating Subdivisions: An Alphabetical Index, 19th ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2007.
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.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. 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.
Dick, Gerald K. 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.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. 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.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. Library of Congress Classification Schedules. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
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.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRI), 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1989.
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.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. 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.
Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress. “MARC Standards.” Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/marc/ (Accessed May 25, 2007).
Provides technical documentation for the MARC standard, including MARC Code Lists for countries, geographic areas, languages, organization, relators, and sources.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. 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.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. 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.
Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress. 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.
3. OCLC RESOURCES
OCLC. “Bibliographic Formats and Standards.” OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/default.htm (accessed May 25, 2007).
This manual 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.
OCLC. “Cataloging: Search WorldCat.” OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/connexion/client/cataloging/searchworldcat/ (accessed May 25, 2007).
OCLC. “Connexion client documentation.” OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/connexion/client/ (accessed May 25, 2007).
Provides documentation on the Connexion client, including authorities and cataloging, as well as introductory tutorials.
OCLC. “Librarian’s Toolbox.” OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/toolbox/default.htm (accessed May 25, 2007).
Provides links to most of the OCLC cataloging documentation including Technical Bulletins and online error-reporting forms.
OCLC. “OCLC Authorities User Guide.” OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/authorities/userguide/default.htm (accessed May 25, 2007).
The Authorities User Guide is a guide to locating, saving, modifying and creating authority records in the OCLC Authority File. It provides information on search strategies, authority record interpretation, text and field editing techniques, use of save files, and record export.
OCLC. “OCLC Documentation.” OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/default.htm (accessed May 25, 2007).
OCLC. “Technical Bulletins.” OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/technicalbulletins/default.htm (accessed May 25, 2007).
These are issued when necessary to communicate current information, such as revisions to the Bibliographic Formats and Standards, to OCLC users.
4. 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/ (accessed May 25, 2007).
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.
5. 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.
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.*
Smiraglia, Richard P. Cataloging Music: A Manual for Use with AACR 2. 2nd Ed. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1986.
_________. _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 tool for determining and assigning the proper uniform titles to "hard to identify" works.
6. MUSIC ONLINE RESOURCES
Yale University. Types of Compositions for Use in Music Uniform Titles. http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/types.htm (accessed August 1, 2007)
Authority Tools For Audio-Visual and Music Catalogers. http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/authtools.html (accessed August 1, 2007)
Indiana University. Worldwide Internet Music Resources. http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/ (accessed August 1, 2007)
Prepared by: Brian E. Surratt and Keith Chapman
Last updated: September 20, 2011
Index Terms: Cataloging reference sources.