Cataloging and Classification

Part 1 Introduction: bibliographic control and library catalogues. Part 2 Descriptive cataloguing: development of cataloguing codes; description; choice of access points; name authority control and forms of headings and uniform titles; references. Part 3 Subject access in library catalogues: subject cataloguing; library of congress subject headings; Sears list of subject headings; medical subject headings and other subject cataloguing systems. Part 4 Classification: general principles of classification; Dewey decimal classification; National Library of Medicine classification and other modern classification systmes. Part 5 USMARC formats and production of cataloguing records: USMARC formats; producing cataloguing records. Appendices: bibliographic records in card and MARC formats; authority records in MARC format; first level of description; general tables from the Library of Congress classification.