International Standard Bibliographic Description Essays

  • The History of Organizing Information

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    the list probably made it to help with the storing and filing of tablets. A second example is when in 1500 BC, the Hittites kingdom which was the greatest and richest power at the time in the region, actually inscribed their tablets with some bibliographic data at the end of a document including number of the tablet in a series, its title, and the name of the scribe. The kingdom produced a great deal of information including entire sets of royal archives, which had to be organized. The inscribed

  • History of the Universal Decimal Classification System

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    Philology and Literature, were ultimately more interested in journal articles, news items, other related documents, and how to access them. Thus, they required a more detailed system. Fortunately,Dewey agreed to allow them to apply his system to the International Index they had conceived, and by 1895 they had amassed and classified 400,000 cards for their Universal Index. Their system caught on after presenting it to a conference held the same year. Otlet and LaFontaine were required to augment Dewey’s

  • A Private Industry Metadata Standard with Benefits for Libraries

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    The ONIX standards for metadata are XML-based standards intended to facilitate the transfer of bibliographic and production information along the book and e-book production and supply chains. Its origin and development were originally intended to organize and standardize supply chain metadata for the publishing industry, but libraries soon found many benefits to its use, and now several methods of incorporating ONIX data into library catalogs exist. This paper focuses on ONIX for Books, which includes

  • Different Types of Digital Libraries

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    considered the basis for digital libraries and maybe even the world wide web. In the 1980s, libraries card catalogs were being replaced by Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs). These were usually closed systems that could contain little more than bibliographic data. Most OPACs were are done in Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) format. It generally represents an individually published item or "information product," and describes the physical characteristics of the item itself (Brenner et al, 20...

  • Richard Wright's - Black Boy

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    Richard Wright's - Black Boy A Teacher's Guide for Secondary and Post Secondary Educators Introduction Richard Wright: An Overview Questions and Activities Before Viewing Questions and Activities After Viewing History: Questions and Activities Education: Questions and Activities Literature: Questions and Activities Psychology: Questions and Activities Sociology Political Science/Cultural Studies: Questions and Activities Bibliographies INTRODUCTION Although RICHARD WRIGHT: