Proceedings of the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for Themew Millennium: Confronting the Challenges of Networked Resources and the Web : Washington, D.C., November 15-17, 2000 - Hardcover

Bicentennial Conference On Bibliographic Control For The New Millenniu; Sandberg-Fox, Ann M.; Library Of Congress Cataloging Directorate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0844410462 ISBN 13: 9780844410463

Publisher: Library of Congress, 2001

Synopsis

Proceedings of conference held November 15-17, 2000 addresing the prior five years i which libraries have witnessed an explosion in the quantity of digital resources that have become available on the World Wide Web. These materials comprise a bibliographical mix of known types or genres (serials and other text-based items) and newer forms such as multimedia, home pages, databases, discussion forums, and online services. Within this period, libraries began to recognize the importance of digital resources and the need to make them an integral part of their collections. However, these resources have presented a number of cataloging problems related to their bibliographic control. Such problems involve content, format, and technology issues which have resulted in raising questions about the overall ability of established cataloging practice as embodied in the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2), and in the application of traditional library subject and classification tools, such as th

About this edition

• Publisher: Library of Congress
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0844410462
• ISBN 13: 9780844410463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 536