2. Seminar on
Presentedby,
S.ARUNJOSEPH.
M.L.I.Sc 2ndsemester.
No : 1
D.L.I.S.
University of Kerala.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC
RESOURCES
&
RECORDS

3. ☼ Catalogue is the bibliographic
description.
☼ Bibliographic organization
consists of two facets.
☼ Physical arrangement using
classification systems and
bibliographic records.

4. Grendley and Hopkinson define
bibliographic item (resource) and
bibliographic record as follows,

5. Any document,book,publication, or
record of human communication ;
any group of documents, or part of a
document treated as an entity.

6. A collection of data elements,
organized in a logical way ,
which represent a bibliographic
item.

7. ☻ COPAC :
Union catalogue provide free
access to merged online catalogues.

8. ☻ World Shakespeare index
☻ FABLE ( Electronic Folklore
Article Bibliography)
☻ ABES ( Annoted Bibliography for English
Studies)
☻ Bath information data service

9. ♥ Uniform representation and description
of a specific content item in a
bibliographic database (or a library
catalogue).
♥ Containing data elements required for
it’s identification and retrieval as well
as additional supporting information
presented in a formalized bibliographic
format.

10.  The earliest known bibliographic
records come from the catalogues
(written in cuneiform script on clay
tablets) of religious texts from 2000
B.C., that were identified by what
appear to be key words in Sumerian.
 In ancient Greece, bibliographic
records were recorded on wooden
tablets called pinakes.

11.  Today's bibliographic record formats
originate from the times of the traditional
paper-based isolated libraries, their self-
contained collections and their corresponding
library cataloguing systems.
 The modern formats, while reflecting this
heritage in their structure, are machine-
readable and most commonly conform to the
MARC standards.
 ISBD format is most acceptable.

12. Bibliographic record is ,
 Recorded information
 Sum of all data elements required to
identify an item
 Consist of bibliographic data elements
pertaining to an item, organized in a
logical and systematic way
 Such an item act as a surrogate of the
item

13.  Identify the existence of resources
 Identifying the works contained
within information packages or as
their parts
 Systematically put together the
packages into collection in libraries ,
archives , museums , files in the net
,……..etc

14.  Producing list of resources
prepared according to systematic
rules
 Providing suitable access points
to the information packages
 Providing the means of locating
each resource or copy of it

15. 1) BIBLIOGRAPHIES
List of information package on
particular subject , author ,…….
Eg : Indian National Bibliography

16. 2) CATALOGUES
List of items within a collection ( books held
by a library , articles for sale , ……..)
Eg : OPAC, book , card ,…

17. 3) INVENTORIES
The accession register of a
library can be said as an inventory
of the collection of the library

18. 4) INDEXES
Access to contents of
information packages
Eg : Guide to Indian Periodical
Literature

19. 5) ABSTRACTING SERVICES
Similar to index and
summary is available
Eg : Chemical abstracts , LISA ,…

20. 6) SEARCH ENGINES
* Developed for the resources in the net
* Searches full text of the resources

21.  The sum of all the area and the elements
…… which may be used to describe ,
identify , or retrieve any physical item of
information content
 It serve as a surrogate record
 BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD IS
THE PRESENTATION OF
CHARACTERISTICKS OF THE
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCE

22.  BURMAN, Joginder Singh. Library Cataloguing
– principles and practices. New Delhi. Rajat
publication. 2007. Pages : 15-17.
 CHOWDHURY,G G. Introduction to modern
information retrieval. Ed.3. London. Facet
publishing. 2010. Pages : 28-30.
 http/bibliographic record/ Wikipedia . Retrived
on 12/09/2012.
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