EDITORIAL By Ruth C. Carter
The Cataloger's Workstation and the Continuing
Transformation of Cataloging, Part I. By Jeffrey Beall
ABSTRACT. Computer technology is currently undergoing rapid
development. The cataloger's workstation will act as an important
structuring concept in our implementation of this technology in
cataloging departments. As this combination of more powerful
computer hardware and software is introduced into cataloging
production, a new phase in the transformation of cataloging to a
fully electronic environment will take hold. Though they existed
prior to the introduction of electronic catalogs, the principles
of connectivity and coordination will come to play primary roles
in the use of the cataloger's workstation. In looking both at its
conceptual foundations (part I of this essay) and at details of
its physical configuration (the focus of part II, to appear in
the next issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly),
the essay provides a general overview of the many facets that
make up the cataloger's workstation.
What is a Work?: Part 3, The Anglo-American Cataloging
Codes, Continued. By Martha M. Yee
ABSTRACT. Anglo-American codes are examined to determine the
implicit or acting concept of work in each, in order to trace the
development of our current implicit concept of work, as embodies
in AACR2R. The following conditions are examined, using
comparison tables: 1) same work with different appendages
(illustrated works, music with texts, texts with commentary
and/or biographical/critical material, scholia); 2) separately
published parts of a work produced by the exercise of several
different functions; 3) appendages to a work published
(commentaries without text, concordances, continuations, indexes,
sequels, supplements); 4) change in title of a work. A trend away
from the collocation of the editions of a work called for by the
second objective of the catalog is identified. It is suggested
that this tendency stems from failure to take advantage of newer
technologies for building catalogs.
A Comparison of AACR2R and French Cataloging Rules. By
Neil A. Jacobowitz
SUMMARY. In light of the increasing availability and use of
foreign MARC records, this article explores French cataloging
rules in relation to AACR2R. After providing background on the
French rules and discussing their formats, the article compares
them with AACR2R in detail. All areas compared reveal noteworthy
differences. The most significant ones are found in the rules for
choice of access points, for uniform titles, and for reduced
bibliographic description.
The Luiseño Culture Bank: Expanding the Canon. By
Catherine S. Herlihy and Fraser Cocks
SUMMARY. Librarians-- especially catalog librarians-- are the
gatekeepers of knowledge. Today librarians are crucial in
negotiating the interfaces between technology and cultural
diversity. Projects such as the Luiseño Culture Bank indicate
the possibilities opened up by the creative combination of
existing techniques and new technologies; such combinations can
ensure that libraries continue to provide wider access to wider
audiences and a wider variety of sources of information.
Libraries can play a role in enabling cultural projects quite far
afield from those for which the Library of Congress
classification system was originally created to support.
Ambiguities in the Use of Certain Library of Congress
Subject Headings for Form and Genre Access to Moving Image
Materials. By David Miller
ABSTRACT. Some Library of Congress Subject Headings
have the potential to be used for either subject or form/genre
access. A selection of LCSH, cognates with terms from Moving
Image Materials: Genre Terms, was searched in OCLC's Online
Union Catalog to determine the degrees to which they were used
for each of these two types of access. It was discovered that the
set of "subject headings" under study was used for
form/genre access between 6% and 99% of the time, with a mean
average of just over 50%. The guidance provided to catalogers by
information contained in Library of Congress authority records is
also discussed.
Letter to the Editor By Jim E. Cole
