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1. LIB 630 Classification and CatalogingSpring 2011 Searching forShamrocks Access Points for St. Patrick’s Day
2. Access points? access point A unit of information in a bibliographic record under which a person may search for and identify items listed in the librarycatalog or bibliographic database. Access points have traditionally included the main entry, added entries, subject headings, classification or call number, and codes such as the standard number, but with machine-readablecataloging, almost any portion of the catalog record (name of publisher, type of material, etc.) can serve as an access point.
3. Plain English, please? An access point is a feature of a work that someone might be likely to choose in order to be able to find that work e. g. Title, author, other names associated with the work (publisher, corporate body, etc.), subject, keyword, classification number, etc.
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6. Main entry as source for Cutter What is a “Cutter number”? Cutter numbers primarily distinguish among books by the same author. A librarian uses a table (e.g., the Cutter-Sanborn Three-Figure Author table that the Cutter family owns) to look up the correct Cutter. Cutters usually consist of the first letter of the author's last name and a series of numbers that makes sure books end up placed on shelves alphabetically, usually by title. Catalogers decide numbers following the Dewey Decimal
7. March 16, 2011 Classification 9 Cutter numbers Cutter? Among his other contributions to the wonderful world of librarianship, Charles Ammi Cutter devised a way to assign an alpha-numeric code for authors' last names. Use of this system allows all books within a particular Dewey Decimal number to be arranged alphabetically on the shelf, usually by title. Catalogers try to assign distinct numbers for each name. The Cutter Number from Dewey Decimal in the UIUC Bookstacks
8. 10 Let’s go Cuttering! Cutter numbers The cutter number for a book usually consists of the first letter of the author's last name and a series of numbers. This series of numbers comes from a table that is designed to help maintain an alphabetical arrangement of names. Conley, Ellen C767 Conley, Robert C768 Cook, Robin C77 Cook, Thomas C773 What if the library has several works by the same author? How do we keep the call number unique? To do that a work mark or work letter is used to distinguish the various works of a single author. Cook, Robin Acceptable Risk 813.54 C77a Cook, Robin Fever 813.54 C77f http://frank.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/dewey2.htm#Cutter
9. Do school librarians go “Cuttering”? Depends on the size of the LMC Most often they will use just the 3-letter abbreviation (or something similar). Cutter
10. Personal names How do we write them? Concise AACR2: General Rule: Rule 31A Choose, as the basis for the heading [i.e. access point], the name by which the person is commonly known. It may be the person’s real name, pseudonym, nickname, title, name in religion, initials, or any other type of name. e.g. Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius, Irish: NaomhPádraig) (from Wikipedia) Why do they call it a heading? Because the “access point” on a catalog card was the heading, or the header on the top of the card, by which they were filed in the catalog cabinet.
12. Titles as access points Problem of varying titles for the same work:
13. Solution? Create a “uniform title” “A uniform title is the specific title by which all variations of a work that has appeared under varying titles and which has no identifiable author are to be referred to for cataloging purposes. A Uniform Title Main Entry search can be useful in finding such works. Examples include the Bible, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Epic of Gilgamesh, Aesop's Fables, the Arabian Nights, etc.” Uniform Title Main Entry Search: Help
14. Uniform title rule Concise AACR2: Rule 59 Individual Titles 59A. If you use a uniform title, choose the title by which the work is best known. Decide this by consulting reference sources (including other catalogues) and other manifestations of the same work. If you are in doubt as to which title is best known, use the earliest title. 59B. Choose the title in the original language, unless you are cataloguing an older work originally written in a nonroman alphabet language [Greek, Russian, etc.]
16. Other access points Keywords vs. subject headings Keywords: the actual words used in the record (from the title, author, notes, etc.), where the meaning of the words is less important, just that they’re there. Subject headings: Words selected from an official list that indicate what the record is about, where the meaning is important (the words used in the subject headings may not even appear in the record).
20. Geographical Headings Difficulties with geographical names: Firstly, there are a number of homonym geographical proper names e.g. out of the seven most important cities called London, three are located in the U.S. [ and one in Ontario, Canada] and there is an island called London too Secondly, there is a great variety of types of geographical names Thirdly, the same geographical place can have [different] names in different languages Geographical names as access points for retrieving database records. Theory and practices of a library regulation Abstract from Hungarian Library Review.
21. An Irish geographical dilemma Ireland, Eire or what? Concise AACR2 rule 46A: Give the name of the place found in (in this order of preference): current English-language gazetteers and atlases other current English-language reference sources
23. Access points in Follett Destiny Basic search: Possible access points
24. Access points in Follett Destiny Dropdown boxes enable you to choose or combine access points of Keyword, Title, Author, Subject, Series, or Note Power search:
25. Access points in Follett Destiny Visual, providing selections of topics:
