Question

What do you understand by library cataloguing?. Explain its needs and objectives?

Answer 1

A library catalog is a list of books and other reading materials available in a particular library.

Explanation:

• Cataloging is the process of establishing metadata to describe information resources such as books, sound recordings, moving images, and so on in the library and information science.
• Cataloging describes resources by providing information such as creator names, titles, and subject terms, usually through the compilation of bibliographic records.
• The records act as stand-ins for the information resources that are stored.
• These metadata have been in machine-readable form since the 1970s and are indexed by information retrieval tools like bibliographic databases and search engines.
• While the cataloging process is most commonly associated with the creation of library catalogs, it can also result in the creation of other types of document and collection discovery tools.