The first book to deal with new international cataloguing standard Resource Description and Access (RDA), Practical Cataloguing has sold tens of thousands of copies across Europe and beyond. A set text on iSchool courses for Cataloguing and Knowledge Organization. Paperback and ebook available from the publisher.
• the FRBRization of the catalogue
• RDA: the new standard, its development, structure and features
• AACR and RDA: the similarities and differences between the two standards
• bringing

The key topics are, of course, identical to those in the Facet edition. On their website, Neal Schuman provide a fuller list of contents, including a useful list of the example records in Chapter 10:
• Sample records for Derek Adams Unconcerned but not indifferent. Colchester: Ninth Arrondissement, 2006
• Sample records for Jasmine Ann Cooray Everything we don’t say. London: Tall Lighthouse, 2009
• Sample records for Henry Charles Moore Noble deeds of the world’s heroines. London: Religious Trac

Kate Thompson interviews me about the history of libraries in World War II. We also talk about the Libraries Act, Dewey Decimal Classification, and, of course, Cataloguing.

The latest news from the RSC, including a photograph from the May Meeting in Chicago.

The latest news about people, standards, exchange formats, subject analysis, and events in cataloguing.

This article considers the value of publication-in-hand cataloguing, from Jewett’s investigation of shared
cataloguing in the 19th century to the present day, when most catalogues are dominated (quantitively) by
metadata produced outside the library and, in some cases, outside the library sector.