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    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...
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  • The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a serially based system of numbering cataloged records in the Library of Congress, in the United States...
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    In library and information science, cataloging (US) or cataloguing (UK) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as...
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  • Hanson (chief of the Catalog Department), with assistance from Charles Martel, in 1897, while they were working at the Library of Congress. It was designed...
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  • Library catalog, a catalog of books and other media Union catalog, a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries Calendar...
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    and thousands of its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog in the world. OCLC is funded...
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  • access catalog (OPAC), now frequently synonymous with library catalog, is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Online...
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    Callimachus, who wrote the Pinakes, sometimes considered the world's first library catalog; Apollonius of Rhodes, who composed the epic poem the Argonautica;...
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    law enforcement efforts to close down Z-Library in 2022. It describes itself as a project that aims to "catalog all the books in existence" and to "track...
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  • A union catalog is a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries. Union catalogs have been created in a range of media...
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  • service that allows for search for materials in public Danish libraries. It is a library catalog. Search targets include books, newspaper and journal articles...
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  • WorldCat (redirect from World Catalog)
    WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current...
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    States National Library of Medicine (NLM), operated by the United States federal government, is the world's largest medical library. Located in Bethesda...
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    George; West, Jessamyn (2013-10-10). "Using Open Library Data § Who owns the Open Library catalog?". Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved...
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  • electronic Library Catalog) is the state of Michigan inter-library loan program (ILL) of the participating Michigan libraries. The cataloged 49,346,993...
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  • Library also had one of the first library catalogs. Unfortunately, Nineveh was eventually destroyed and the library was lost in a fire. The Greek government...
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  • Library Hub Discover is a union catalog operated by Jisc. It replaces Copac and SUNCAT. Its user interface is centred around a simple search engine-like...
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    library professional who engages in the process of cataloging and classifying library materials is called a cataloger or catalog librarian. Library classification...
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  • Cataloging & Classification Quarterly is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that publishes articles about library cataloging, classification, metadata...
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    Medical Subject Headings (category Library cataloging and classification)
    the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), it is used by the MEDLINE/PubMed article database and by NLM's catalog of book holdings. MeSH is...
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  • Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (category Library catalogues)
    of catalogs of research libraries and consortia in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as important consortia and national library catalogs in...
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  • authority control is a process that organizes information, for example in library catalogs, by using a single, distinct spelling of a name (heading) or an (generally...
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    Dewey Decimal Classification (category Library cataloging and classification)
    updated version for catalogers. The decimal number classification introduced the concepts of relative location and relative index. Libraries previously had...
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  • and digital resources. Computerized library catalogs and library management software need to structure their catalog records as per an industry-wide standard...
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  • combining the circulation and catalog functions of an integrated library system (ILS) with additional tools and facilities. A library portal is defined as "a...
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    archivist; New Catalog, Restructuring". Library Journal. Vol. 134, no. 13. August 1, 2009. "American Library Association: The Nation's Largest Libraries". Ala...
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  • LibraryThing is a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by authors, individuals...
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    Metadata (category Library cataloging and classification)
    Metadata was traditionally used in the card catalogs of libraries until the 1980s when libraries converted their catalog data to digital databases. In the 2000s...
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    A master catalog acts as a catalog of all domain or topic-specific catalogs and often directs the user to a more specific area of a library, where the...
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    an index in the back matter of a book and an index that serves as a library catalog. An index differs from a word index, or concordance, in focusing on...
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