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2. Library catalog - Wikipedia

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   The Card Catalog at the Library of Congress. A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog.

3. MARC standards - Wikipedia

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   MARC standards. MARC (machine-readable cataloging) is a standard set of digital formats for the machine-readable description of items catalogued by libraries, such as books, DVDs, and digital resources. Computerized library catalogs and library management software need to structure their catalog records as per an industry-wide standard, which ...

4. Library of Congress Control Number - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] It has also been called the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, among other names. The Library of Congress prepared cards of bibliographic information for their library catalog and would sell duplicate sets of the cards to other libraries for use in their catalogs. This is known as centralized cataloging. Each set of cards was ...

5. International Standard Bibliographic Description - Wikipedia

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   The International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) is a set of rules produced by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to create a bibliographic description in a standard, human-readable form, especially for use in a bibliography or a library catalog. A preliminary consolidated edition of the ISBD ...

6. Category:Catalog lookup templates - Wikipedia

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   Templates relating to online library catalogs. This category contains templates that create an inline, external link to an entry for a work or edition in an online catalog. The specific entry is determined by a unique identifier passed as a parameter in the template.

7. Talk:Library catalog - Wikipedia

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   Library catalogs have been card catalogs for most of history, until less than a generation ago, so I would add a photo of an online catalog instead of removing the card catalog. There are photos at the article for OPAC (for Online Public Access Catalog) -- a term that has not yet caught on with the general public. Many people still call the ...

8. Cataloging (library science) - Wikipedia

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   t. e. In library and information science, cataloging (US) or cataloguing (UK) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging provides information such as author's names, titles, and subject terms that describe resources, typically through the creation of ...

9. Online public access catalog - Wikipedia

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   Online public access catalog. The online public access catalog (OPAC), now frequently synonymous with library catalog, is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Online catalogs have largely replaced the analog card catalogs previously used in libraries.