1. instructor Balqis Shuja’ IIUM Library 13 April 2005
Basic Library Course for Library Assistants from Community Colleges (11-14 April 2005)
Cataloguing basics
instructor
Balqis Shuja’
IIUM Library
13 April 2005

2. Overview and introduction
Cataloguing basics
Overview and introduction
A one-day course to provide elementary knowledge
and understanding on
۞ Bibliographic concepts and principles
۞ What is a catalogue
۞ Why catalogue
۞ What is cataloguing
۞ How to catalogue print and media materials
۞ Catalogue and collection organization
Course materials are in English but session will be conducted
in Malay. Participants will be provided with guide containing
excerpts of relevant pages from AACR2, MARC outlines,
forms of catalogue and authority card, guides to assign DDC
notation, guides to assign Sears subject headings, and guides
to file card catalogue.