1. Classification & Cataloging
LIB 3200

2. Classification The systematic placement in categories
In the library, materials are placed in various categories.
Format - book, video, ebook, audio books, etc.
Subject Matter – What is “it” about?

3. Classification Sears List of Subject Headings
A list created by Minnie E. Sears, first published in 1923 for use in school libraries and small public libraries.
In order to create her subject headings, Sears consulted small and medium sized libraries throughout the country to discern patterns of usage. She then developed her own system, based in part on the Library of Congress Subject Headings, but with a simplified subject vocabulary.
In Sears’ system, common terms are much preferred over scientific and technical terms. Her system also allowed individual libraries the authority to create their own subject headings.
The Sears model is not meant to serve as a standardized bridge for union catalogs, but rather as a model “for the creation of headings as needed”  

4. Classification Sears List of Subject Headings
From the following link, you can view the 19th edition of Sears
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5. Cataloging The process of creating entries for a catalog.
In libraries, this usually includes bibliographic description, subject analysis, assignment of classification notation.
It also includes activities involved in physically preparing the item for the shelf, tasks usually performed under the supervision of a librarian trained as a cataloger.

6. Cataloging There are two basic systems used:
Library of Congress Classification
books are grouped on the shelves by subjects/what they are about – regardless of what type of book each may be. Example: Biographies of Edgar Alan Poe would be shelved with his poetry and short stories.
Call numbers are letters first, then numbers representing the subject and also included in the year of copyright.
Library of Congress is typically used in academic libraries (colleges and universities)
Library of Congress -

7. Cataloging There are two basic systems used: Dewey Decimal System
books are grouped by the topic/subject. Books are separated by types. Example: Biographies are in one group, poetry in another, and so forth.
Call numbers are number first, then letters representing the last name of the author of the book.
Dewey Decimal is typically used in public and school libraries.
Dewey Decimal Classification System -

8. Cataloging Dewey Decimal Classification System
A hierarchical system for classifying books and other library materials by subject, first published in 1876 by the librarian and educator Melvil Dewey.
Is organized by disciplines or fields of study. At the broadest level, the Dewey Decimal Classification is divided into ten main classes.
Each main class is further divided into ten divisions
Each division is divided into ten sections

9. Cataloging
A brief introduction to Dewey Decimal Classification -
Recommend that you print pages 9 – 20 of the pdf
An introduction for students
You can download a PowerPoint to use with your students

10. Cataloging The Ten Main Classes
000 - Computer science, information & general works
100 - Philosophy & psychology
200 - Religion
300 - Social sciences
400 - Language
500 - Science
600 - Technology
700 - Arts & recreation
800 - Literature
900 - History & geography

11. Cataloging The Hundred Divisions 500 - Science 510 - Mathematics
520 - Astronomy
530 - Physics
540 - Chemistry
550 - Earth sciences & geology
560 - Fossils & prehistoric life
570 - Life sciences; biology
580- Plants (Botany)
590 - Animals (Zoology)

12. Cataloging The Thousand Divisions 590 - Animals (Zoology)
591 - Specific topics in natural history
592 - Invertebrates
593 - Marine & seashore invertebrates
594 - Mollusks & molluscoids
595 - Arthropods
596 - Chordates
597 - Cold-blooded vertebrates; fishes
598 - Birds
599 - Mammals

13. Cataloging Dewey Decimal Classification
This is OCLC’s new interface & it shows the PDF version of Abridged15. 
Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) is "a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs".[Founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center, OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world.

14. Cataloging MARC records http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/um01to06.html
MAchine Readable Cataloging
Each field in a MARC records provides information about the item the record is describing. Since it was first developed at a time when computing power was low, and space precious, MARC uses a simple three-digit numeric code (from ) to identify each field in the record.

15. Cataloging
CIP
A Cataloging in Publication record (aka CIP data) is a bibliographic record prepared by the Library of Congress for a book that has not yet been published. When the book is published, the publisher includes the CIP data on the copyright page thereby facilitating book processing for libraries and book dealers.

16. Cataloging Call Numbers
Call Numbers represent location on the shelves and location within the classification system. Call numbers (located on the spine label) are derived from the classification system.
Dewey Decimal System Examples: 921 – biography; 510 – mathematics; F – Fiction
Library of Congress Examples: M – Music; PS – literature (poems, short stories, etc.); Z – reference (including library science)]

17. Cataloging “A Way to Cheat!” Copy / Paste! Follett Titlewave
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