Cataloguing Outside the Box
A Practical Guide to Cataloguing Special Collections Materials

Patricia Falk (Author), Stefanie Hunker (Author)

9781843345534, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 20 January 2010

260 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.47 kg

"The authors have produced a practical guide to the variables and complexities of cataloguing materials held in unique special collections formats and supply a useful tool to aid current practice and inform future training." --Library Review

A practical guide to cataloguing and processing the unique special collections formats in the Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL) and the Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives (MLSRA) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) (e.g. fanzines, popular sound recordings, comic books, motion picture scripts and press kits, popular fiction). Cataloguing Outside the Box provides guidance to professionals in library and information science facing the same cataloguing challenges. Additionally, name authority work for these collections is addressed.

Self-published music scores and recordings
Popular music compact discs
Fanzines
Comics and graphic novels
Special periodicals
Popular fiction
Movie, television, and radio scripts
Press kits
Authority work
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Bibliographic & subject control [GLK], Library & information sciences [GL]