The Concise AACR2 - Softcover

Gorman, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838935486 ISBN 13: 9780838935484

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2004

Synopsis

This practical guidebook, now in its fourth edition, has been fully revised and is now in concordance with AACR2, 2002 Revision 2004 Update. Michael Gorman, co-editor of the original AACR2, explains the more generally applicable AACR2 rules for cataloging library materials in simplified terms that make the rules more accessible and practical for practitioners and students who are in less complex library and bibliographic environments.

This new fourth edition provides clear, user-friendly need to know guidance for:

* Small libraries that require standard cataloging but don t need all the details of structure and content of the full text

* Beginning students who need to learn about cataloging but do not intend to be catalogers

* Paraprofessionals engaged in copy cataloging

* International catalogers who prefer a summary of AACR2 practice
For catalogers learning the ropes, The Concise AACR2, Fourth Edition will provide a bridge as they progress to more complicated cataloging. Featuring new examples and updates throughout, a glossary of important cataloging terms used in the rules, and a concordance with AACR2, this is the must-have reference book for all librarians.

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About the Author

Michael Gorman is dean of library services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno. He has taught at library schools in his native Britain and in the United States most recently as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Science (summer sessions). He is the first editor of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (ALA, CLA, LA, 1978) and of the revision of that work (1988). He is the author of The Concise AACR2 (ALA,CLA, LA, 1989); and The Enduring Library (ALA, 2003). Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, and Reality, co-written with Walt Crawford, was honored with the 1997 Blackwell s Scholarship Award. His most recent book, published by ALA in 1997, is titled Our Singular Strengths: Meditations for Librarians. Gorman is the author of more than 100 articles in professional and scholarly journals. He has given numerous presentations at international, national, and state conferences. A fellow of the British Library Association (CILIP) and the 1992 recipient of the Melvil Dewey Medal, Gorman was elected President of the American Library Association, 2005 06.

Review

"...a must have for all students, librarians in the information services sectors who might need to deal with the basic rules of cataloguing to input a simple record in a library management system (ILM). It is a very comprehensive, informative, and easy to follow resource for the national cataloguing standards written in a clear and simple language." - Library Management --Library Management

About this edition

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0838935486
• ISBN 13: 9780838935484
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200