S.R. Ranganathan
Library Cataloging

S.R. Ranganathan


William Denton has supplied some definitions and principles from Ranganathan's Prolegomena to Library Classification.

Thanks to Ian Fairclough for pointing this out.





- Isbn2marc
William Denton has written a program, isbn2marc, that takes and ISBN and returns a MARC record. It uses Z39.50 and is written in Ruby. Mr. Denton is the person responsible for the FRBR Blog, good stuff....

- Re: Recommendation And Ranganathan
I hope everybody here is also reading Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. However, just in case there are some who don't, begin with the excellent post Recommendation and Ranganathan. I thought the description of the four types of metadata a very good place...

- Faceted Classifications
William Denton, the LIS student, continues to make his interesting papers available on the Web. The latest is "How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web" Nov. 2003.Seen on Library Planet....

- Frbr
William Denton has posted his paper "FRBR and Fundamental Cataloguing Rules".IFLA's proposed data model, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), arranges bibliographic entities in a new way, using an entity-relationship model that...

- Cataloging
Core Concepts in Cataloging at the Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota are a nice succinct summary of Cutter, Ranganathan, and FRBR....



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