Cataloging Legal Literature

Revised Appendix C, Recommended Tools September 19, 2007

Revised by the New Catalogers Roundtable at the suggestion of Melody Lembke, the resulting document is a collaboration of NCRT members and more experienced law catalogers who are part of the NCRT listserv. (NCRT facilitator 2006/2007: Monica Kauppi; listserv experts: Marie Whited, Melody Lembke, Kathy Winzer, Ann Sitkin, and George Prager; additional revisions: John Hostage.)

Descriptive and Subject Cataloging Primary Sources

Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. 2nd ed., 2002 revision, 2005 update. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR, a committee of the American Library Association ... [et al.]. Chicago: American Library Association, 2005-

Cataloging Service Bulletin. Washington, D.C.: , Cataloging Distribution Service, summer 1978- [Online. Available from Internet: http://www.loc.gov/cds/PDFdownloads/csb/index.html, accessed July 10, 2007.]

Cutter, Charles Ammi. Cutter-Sanborn Three Figure Author Table. Swanson-Swift rev. Littleton, Colo.: Distributed by Libraries Unlimited, 1969.

Hallam, Adele. Cataloging Rules for the Description of Looseleaf Publications: with Special Emphasis on Legal Materials. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy, Library of Congress, 1989.

Lembke, Melody Busse. Legal L.C. Subject Headings Weekly Lists. Littleton, Colo.: Published for the American Association of Law Libraries by F.B. Rothman, 1986-

Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office. Subject Cataloging Manual: Subject Headings. 5th ed. Washington, D.C.: 1996-

Library of Congress. Free-floating Subdivisions: an Alphabetical Index. 1st ed.- Washington, D.C., 1989-

Library of Congress. Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy. Library of Congress Rule Interpretations. Washington, D.C.: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 2000-

Library of Congress. Network Development and Marc Standards Office. MARC21 Concise Formats. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2000- [Online. Available from Internet: http://www.loc.gov/marc/concise/, accessed July 10, 2007.]

Library of Congress. Network Development and Marc Standards Office. MARC21 Format for Authority Data: Including Guidelines for Content Designation. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 1999- [Online. Available from Internet: http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/, accessed July 10, 2007.]

Library of Congress. Network Development and Marc Standards Office. MARC21 Format for Bibliographic Data: Including Guidelines for Content Designation. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 1999- [Online. Available from Internet: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/, accessed July 10, 2007.]

Library of Congress. Network Development and Marc Standards Office. MARC21 Format for Holdings Data: Including Guidelines for Content Designation. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2000- [Online. Available from Internet: http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/, accessed July 10, 2007.] Library of Congress Subject Headings. 8th ed.- Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1975- [Online. Available from Internet: http://classweb.loc.gov, accessed July 10, 2007.]

Cataloging Handbooks and Manuals

Chan, Lois Mai, and Theodora Hodges. Cataloging and Classification: an Introduction. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2007.

Chan, Lois Mai. A Guide to the Library of Congress Classification. 5th ed. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1999.

Chan, Lois Mai. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Principles and Application. 4th ed. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 2005.

CONSER Cataloging Manual. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service, 2002- [Online. Available from Internet: http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/, accessed July 10, 2007.]

Dershem, Larry D. Cataloging Made Easy: a Concise Edition of Library of Congress Classification and Subject Headings. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2004.

Dershem, Larry D. Library of Congress Classification KF: Law of the United States Cumulative Schedule. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2006.

Dershem, Larry D. Library of Congress Classification KF: Law of the United States Cumulative Index. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2006.

Gorman, Michael. The Concise AACR2. 4th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.

Holmes, Elizabeth Geesey. “Classification.” Technical Services Law Librarian. 28, no. 4 (June 2003): 6-7.

Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid. Organizing Audiovisual and Electronic Resources for Access: a Cataloging Guide. 2nd ed. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

Leong, Carol, and Winnie S. Chan. Serial Cataloging Handbook: an Illustrative Guide to the Use of AACR2R and LC Rule Interpretations. 2nd ed. [Chicago]: American Library Association, 1998.

Maxwell, Robert L. Maxwell’s Handbook for AACR2: explaining and illustrating the Anglo-American cataloguing rules through the 2003 update. Chicago: American Library Association, 2004.

Olson, Nancy B. Cataloging Service Bulletin Index. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1982-

Olson, Nancy B., and Edward Swanson. Cataloging Computer Files: 1996 Update. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1996.

Olson, Nancy B., and Edward Swanson. Cataloging Motion Pictures and Videorecordings: 1996 Update. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1996.

Olson, Nancy B., and Edward Swanson. Cataloging of Audiovisual Materials: 1996 Update. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1996.

Olson, Nancy B., Sheila S. Intner, and Edward Swanson. Cataloging of Audiovisual Materials and Other Special Materials: a Manual based on AACR2. 4th ed. DeKalb, Ill.: Minnesota Scholarly Press, 1998. Program for Cooperative Cataloging. Integrating Resources, a Cataloging Manual: Appendix A to the BIBCO Participants’ Manual and Module 35 of the CONSER Cataloging Manual. [Washington, D.C.]: Program for Cooperative Cataloging, 2005. [Online. Available from Internet: http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/9345, accessed July 10, 2007.]

Salinger, Florence A., and Eileen Zagon. Notes for Catalogers: a Sourcebook for Use with AACR2. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1988.

Saye, Jerry D., and April J. Bohannan. Manheimer’s Cataloging and Classification. 4th ed., rev. and expanded. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, 2000.

Saye, Jerry D., and Sherry L. Vellucci. Notes in the Catalog Record: Based on AACR2 and LC Rule Interpretations. Chicago: American Library Association, 1989.

Taylor, Arlene G., and David P. Miller. Introduction to Cataloging and Classification. 10th ed. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

Taylor, Arlene G. The Organization of Information. 2nd ed. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.

Taylor, Arlene G., and Joanna F. Fountain. Unlocking the Mysteries of Cataloging: a Workbook of Examples. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2005.

Weber, Mary Beth. Cataloging Nonprint and Internet Resources: a How-to-do-it Manual for Librarians. New York, NY: Neal- Schuman Publishers, 2002.

Wietz, Jay. Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines. [Dublin, Ohio]: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 2006. [Online. Available from Internet: http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/cataloging/electronicresources/, accessed Sept. 19, 2007.]

Dictionaries

Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 2002.

General Reference Works

The Statesman’s Year Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World. London, Macmillan, 1864-

The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Geographical Dictionaries and Gazetteers

Merriam-Webster’s Geographical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 2001.

Legal Aids

Benemann, William. Genre Terms for Law Materials: a Thesaurus. 2nd ed. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein, 2006. Cohen, Morris L., and Kent C. Olson. Legal Research in a Nutshell. 8th ed. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2003.

Elias, Stephen, and Susan Levinkind. Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law. Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2003.

Garner, Brian A., and Henry Campbell Black. Black’s Law Dictionary. 8th ed. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2004.

Hicks, Frederick. Bibliographic Material. In Materials and Methods of Legal Research, part 4. Rochester, NY: Lawyers Cooperative Pub. Co., 1942.

Jacobstein, J. Myron, Roy M. Mersky, and Donald J. Dunn. Fundamentals of Legal Research. New York, NY: Foundation Press, 1998.

Kritzer, Herbert M. Legal Systems of the World: a Political, Social and Cultural Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.

Lembke, Melody Busse, and Rhonda K. Lawrence. Cataloging Legal Literature: a Manual on AACR2R and Library of Congress Subject Headings for Legal Materials. 3rd ed. Littleton, Colo.: F.B. Rothman, 1997-

Marion, Phyllis, “Sources for Determining Citation Practice for Court Reports Throughout the World,” Library Resources and Technical Services, v. 25, no. 2 (April/June 1981): 139-148.

McCloy, William Brokaw. “The Cataloging of Chinese Legal Materials,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, v. 17, no. 1/2 (1993): 181-195.

Medina, Rubens. Nomenclature & Hierarchy: Basic Latin American Legal Sources. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1979.

Wild, Susan. Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006.

Cataloging Trends

Intner, Sheila S, Susan I. Lazinger, and Jean Weihs. Metadata and Its Impact on Libraries. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2005.

Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. (July 10, 2007) RDA: Resource Description and Access. Retrieved July 10, 2007 from http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rda.html.

O’Neill, Edward T., and Lois Mai Chan. FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) a Simplified LCSH Vocabulary. [Hague, Netherlands]: IFLA, 2003. [Online. Available from Internet: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla69/papers/010e- ONeill_Mai-Chan.pdf accessed Sept. 19, 2007.]

Sitkin, Ann, Kathy Winzer, and Jennifer Bowen. Pioneering Toward a New Cataloging Code RDA–Resource Description and Access. [Sound Recording] [Valencia, CA.]: Mobiltape Co., 2006.

Smiraglia, Richard P. Metadata: a Cataloger’s Primer. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press, 2005.