Lecture 2 Flashcards
What does the term bibliographic information mean?
Specific info about materials in a library collection use by patrons to decide if the resources meet their needs.
What is cataloguing?
Process that organized collections of material so they can be retrieved/accessed easily.
What does a bibliographic record include?
Description of an item, main entries and added entries, subject headings, classification or call number.
What is metadata?
Data about data. Info about resources like edition statements, names of creators & contributors, subjects, etc
What is Cataloguing in Publication (CIP)?
Bibliographic information about books that is supplied by the publisher. Printed on the back of the title page or back of the book.
What are the components that describe a field in a MARC record?
Tags, indicators, and subfields.
What are Tags in a MARC record?
Three digit numerical tags that identify a field (245 - Title Statement)
What is a subfield and subfield code in a MARC record?
Subfield: each type of data in a field is called a subfield.
Subfield code: each subfield is preceded with one of theses, and it indicates what data follows it.
What is a delimiter in a MARC record?
A character used to separate subfields.
What is an indicator in the MARC record?
Two character positions that follow each tag. Each indicator value is a number from 0-9. They are two single digit numbers, not one number.
Fields 001 to 009 do not contain any indicators.
What does “NR” mean in the MARC bibliographic catalog?
NR means “non repeatable”. You can only use this once in a record. If you see “R”, you can use it as many times as you need.
What character would you use to represent a blank, or undefined indicator?
#
What are the content of a typical MARC cataloguing record?
A leader, a directory, control fields, then variable fields
What is the leader in a MARC record?
24 character position field. It consists of data elements providing info the the system processing the record.
What is a directory in a MARC record?
A series of entries containing the tag, length and starting location of each variable field.
