E-Serials Cataloging: Access to Continuing and Integrating Resources Via the Catalog and the Web

Author	Jim Cole,Wayne Jones
ISBN	9780789017109
Publisher	Routledge
Manufacturer	Routledge

This book provides a comprehensive guide to electronic serials cataloging, with special attention paid to online accessibility. The book covers the state of electronic serials cataloging as of the 1990s, and discusses the international standards (ISSN, ISBD[ER], AACR2) that are applicable. It puts the concept of online accessibility into historical perspective and offers a look at current applications to consider. Practicing librarians, catalogers and administrators of technical services, cataloging and service departments, and Web managers will find this book to be an invaluable asset.

Examine current methods of e-serials cataloging with an accent on online accessibility!

This comprehensive guide examines the state of electronic serials cataloging with special attention paid to online capacities. E-Serials Cataloging: Access to Continuing and Integrating Resources via the Catalog and the Web presents a review of the e-serials cataloging methods of the 1990s and discusses the international standards (ISSN, ISBD[ER], AACR2) that are applicable. It puts the concept of online accessibility into historical perspective and offers a look at current applications to consider. Practicing librarians, catalogers and administrators of technical services, cataloging and service departments, and Web managers will find this book to be an invaluable asset.

E-Serials Cataloging: Access to Continuing and Integrating Resources via the Catalog and the Web includes:

• an annotated bibliography of selected cataloging processes for online e-serials
• a complete collection of notes used in cataloging AACR2 e-serials
• the results of a survey on staffing for cataloging e-serials in ALR libraries
• a literature review of e-serials cataloging in the 1990s
  
  This book is an essential resource for anyone involved with the day-to-day processing of electronic serials. E-Serials Cataloging: Access to Continuing and Integrating Resources via the Catalog and the Web provides a complete reference to an information phenomenon that represents a major advance in electronic library science for libraries large and small.