This working guide for Livonia's Public Schools provides detailed instructions in preparing and handling catalog cards, a supplemental cataloging and classification guide, and typing rules for technical processing. Standard abbreviations are given for making classification entries, and separate cataloging instructions are given for charts,…

A GENERAL GUIDE FOR CATALOGING AND PROCESSING OF NON-BOOK MATERIALS, THIS MANUAL WAS WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN ORGANIZING AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS FOR USE BY PUPILS AND TEACHERS IN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL LIBRARIES. AS SUCH, THE DECISIONS ON CATALOGING PROCEDURE ARE BASED UPON THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE ORGANIZATION OF ALL…

Elementary students can help turn the classroom book collection into a well-organized library using the classroom computer. In the process, they get practice in cooperative-learning groups as they work with both electronic and card catalogs. The article explains how to use computers to create an electronic catalog. (SM)

This revised edition of the cataloging manual for nonbook materials is to be used by school librarians as a resource in developing and maintaining an expanding collection of nonbook materials. Entries in the document are based on the second edition of "Anglo-American Cataloging Rules" (AACR2), and on "Guidelines for Using AACR2…

For this kit, 119 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) academic libraries were surveyed to determine the impact of online catalogs on the training needs of technical services staff and on the planning and organization of programs to meet these needs; responses were received from 66 libraries. Analyses of the responses indicated that the…