Ideal for students and both beginning and practicing catalogers in public, school, and academic libraries, this updated workbook offers targeted, hands-on exercises that enhance understanding of description, classification, subject analysis, subject heading application, and MARC 21 subject analysis.

Provides more than 100 examples that together encompass virtually all types of materials libraries collect and catalog, with MARC answer records

Offers exercises that allow practice in AACR2r and RDA, description, subject classification, subject heading application, classification, subject analysis, and MARC 21

Covers both RDA and AACR2r answer records for selected exercises

Includes non-English materials

Links to a website that provides for multiple approaches and answer records and enables you to view all the graphics in color and enlarge them as needed

Links instruction to an additional website that provides answer records for all exercises