Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS). Society of American Archivists (2004).
*Hensen, Steven.
Archives, Personal Papers and Manuscripts. (APPM) Society of American Archivists (1989).
*Anglo-American
Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2R) - Of particular importance are
the chapters on selection and formulation of headings and cross
references (for authority record creation and maintenance); also Chapter
4 (Manuscript Cataloging)
Art and Architecture
Thesaurus. (AAT) 5 v. New York: 1994. Available on
the web. We have bound volumes and a spiral bound Guide
to Indexing and Cataloging with the AAT.
Cataloging at Yale web
site.
Descriptive Cataloging
of Rare Materials (Books). (DCRM(B)) Library of Congress (2007).
Association of College and
Research Libraries Thesauri for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections
Cataloging (available through the RBMS website):
- Binding Terms.
Genre Terms.
Paper Terms.
Printing and Publishing Evidence.
Provenance Evidence.
Type Evidence.
Relator Terms
-
Graphic materials:
- *Betz, Elisabeth W.
Graphic Materials: rules for describing original items and
historical collections. Washington, DC: 1982. Cataloger's
Desktop version includes 1996 update.
*Thesaurus for
Graphic Materials. Section II: Genre and Physical Characteristic
Terms (TGM II) is the second edition of Descriptive Terms for
Graphic Materials: genre and physical characteristics headings.
Library of Congress:
- *LC Rule
Interpretations.
*LC Subject Headings.
*LC Subject Cataloging
Manual.
*LC Chronological
Headings and Subdivisions.
*Free-Floating
Subdivisions. An Alphabetical Index.
Online LC Resources
File (LCDB) (accessed via remote search in the Orbis cataloging
module). Maintained by the Library of Congress.
Old Yale Catalog--printed card
catalog over at Sterling
Orbis authority file (Local
Database). Processed by MARS, which sends new and updated authority
records from Library of Congress as new authority records are contributed
to NACO or when updates are contributed to NACO.
Orbis training
documentation.
Other library catalogs available
on the WWW.
OCLC/RLIN:
OCLC is available through WorldCat
on the Yale Library Databases
and Article Searching Page
Pending merger with OCLC, RLIN is available
via
Eureka through the Yale
Library Databases and Article Searching Page
*Standard Citation Forms for
Published Bibliographies and Catalogs Used in Rare Book Cataloging.
Washington, DC: 1982.
USMARC:
- *USMARC Code List for
Geographic Areas.
*USMARC Code List for
Languages.
*USMARC Code List for
Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.
*USMARC Format for
Authority Data.
*USMARC Format for
Bibliographic Data.
