"The fourth edition of the late Lois Mai Chan's classic Cataloging and Classification covers the analysis and representation of methods used in describing, organizing, and providing access to resources made available in or through libraries. Since the last edition published in 2007, there have been dramatic changes in cataloging systems, the most notable being the shift from AACR2 to Resource Description and Access (RDA) as the new standard developed...

Contains the established guidelines suggested for use by catalogers in the WYLD Network Consortia to maintain continuity in cataloging practices in all types of records in the statewide database.

"This is a book about some of the systems which people have created for organizing information. It also examines the problems we face in sorting out the relationships between subjects, and imposing order on chaos. It's about the nature of knowledge as it is found in books and other information-carrying media. It is also first and foremost a book about how to classify. The emphasis throughout is on the activity of classification rather than the theory,...