Book Description

Highlighting the increasing use of microcomputers in libraries by indicating their applications, strengths, and weaknesses, this outstanding new edition is updated to reflect the rapid growth in the range of nonprint materials and the technology for recording and reproducing them. Organizing Nonprint Materials, Second Edition surveys the various methods and problems of organizing these materials and describes the use of microcomputers both for storing nonprint items and keeping track of them ... greatly expands the previous edition's classified list of subject headings for pictures ... provides specific examples of catalog entries for each type of nonprint material ... and includes materials not treated in the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, compact audiodisks, microcomputer programs, as well as new standards for map and picture collections. Suitable for all types of libraries that collect nonprint materials, including academic, community, special, and private, this reference is essential reading for all librarians dealing with nonprint materials; library school instructors and administrators; media center specialists; information scientists; bibliographers; catalogers; and graduate students in library science. Book jacket.