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IFLA Guidelines for Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) Displaysby Wolfgang P. Schmid; Eckhard Eggers
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 61.00Existing Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs) demonstrate differences in the range and complexity of their functional features, terminology, and help facilities. While many libraries already have OPACs, there is a need to bring together, in the form of guidelines or recommendations, a corpus of good practice to assist libraries in designing or re-designing the displays for their OPACs, taking into consideration the needs of users. The audience for these guidelines is librarians charged with customizing OPAC software and vendors and producers of this software. The guidelines are mainly designed for general libraries with collections of resources in the humanities, the social sciences, and the pure and applied sciences. The guidelines are... more...
Grow One Sundayby Herb Miller
Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 10.00Grow-One Sunday is a spiritual-growth program as well as a financial campaign. It is based on the biblical theology of ?the need of the giver to give? for his or her own spiritual development, not on the ?need of the church to receive? in order to balance its budget. more...
Susan Sontagby Leland Poague
Routledge 2000; US$ 150.00Susan Sontag is one of America's most prolific and important 20th century authors. Known for her philosophical writings on American culture, this volume is an exhaustive collection with each entry accompanied by an annotated bibliography. more...
UNIMARC & Friendsby Marie-France Plassard
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 122.00With the expansion of the World Wide Web during the last decade, libraries and their standards face an ever-complex environment, with new types, genres and forms of information resources. Changing information network structures and the emergence of new retrieval methods all play their roles. A three day conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2006, in order to review the current state of bibliographic standards and to discuss a number of questions in charting a future for their development. more...
IFLA Cataloguing Principlesby Barbara B. Tillett
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 139.00Vol. 26 of IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control was the start of a process towards an International Cataloguing Code that will continue through 2007. Through the series of meetings represented by each volume, the reader will be able to track the development and consultation taking place throughout the different parts of the world, that will culminate with the creation of a truly international cataloguing code. The current volume 28, contains information in English and Spanish on the use of cataloguing rules throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, and provides perspectives from the experts representing each of these countries in today's environment. more...
IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code, 4by Barbara B. Tillett; Jaesun Lee; Ana Lupe Cristán
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 179.00This is the latest report in a process towards International Cataloguing Principles that began in 2003 and will continue through 2007. Through the series of meetings represented by each volume the reader will be able to track the development and consultation taking place throughout the different parts of the world that will culminate with the creation of a truly international set of principles to guide the development of cataloguing codes worldwide. more...
IFLA Cataloguing Principles: Steps towards an International Cataloguing Code, 3by Barbara B. Tillett; Khaled Mohamed Reyad; Ana Lupe Cristán
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2006; US$ 109.00This is the latest report in a process towards International Cataloguing Principles that began in 2003 and will continue through 2007. Through the series of meetings represented by each volume the reader will be able to track the development and consultation taking place throughout the different parts of the world that will culminate with the creation of a truly international set of principles to guide the development of cataloguing codes worldwide. This volume contains information in English and Arabic on the recommendations of cataloguing experts from countries in the Arabic-speaking Middle East. The April 2006 draft Statement on International Cataloguing Principles included here reflects the votes of agreement from all participants of the... more...
ISBDby IFLA
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2008; US$ 118.00Merges the texts of seven ISBDs (for books, maps, serials, sound recordings, computer files and other electronic resources, etc) into a single text. This work is useful and applicable for descriptions of bibliographic resources in several types of catalogues. more...
Functional Requirements for Authority Databy Glenn E. Patton
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 84.00This book represents an important part of the extension and expansion of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. It contains an analysis of attributes of various entities that are the centre of focus for authority data (persons, families, corporate bodies, works, expressions, manifestations, items, concepts, objects, events, and places), the name by which these entities are known, and the controlled access points created by cataloguers for them. The conceptual model describes the attributes of these entities and the relationships between them. more...
UNIMARC Manualby Mirna Willer
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 126.00The UNIMARC Authorities Format was designed in the early 1990s to allow the creation of authority and reference records for the management of controlled access points in a bibliographic database. Incorporated in this work is relevant information from other IFLA working groups and from UNIMARC users. It is published under the auspices of the IFLA Cataloguing Section. This is the 3rd, completely updated and enlarged edition. more...









