Keeshana Clark

LIS 703 -- Final Exam

Instructions for Completing and Submitting Your Exam - PLEASE READ
CAREFULLY!
The Final Exam for this course is divided into two parts. In the first part, you will
answer three (3) questions that require you to reflect upon and write coherently
about course content from throughout the semester. In the second part of the
exam, you will create three (3) MARC records for items I will give you (do not
catalog any other items!). Use the variable and fixed fields templates provided
for each item to transcribe your answers. There are further instructions under
each part of the exam - please read these instructions carefully.
You may use the following to complete the exam:

RDA Toolkit (RDA)

Classification Web (LCSH and LCC)
LC Authorities website
OCLC Bibliographic Formats & Standards website
LIS 703 Course Lessons, Lectures, Discussion Postings, Blog Postings &
Assessments
Course textbooks and handouts

The course instructor has the following expectations for each question in Part 1:

Answer each question fully using course content and resources

Cite sources that you use, whether you quote directly or paraphrase
For all questions except for #3, keep your answers between 100-200 words
per answer. For question #3, your answer should be around 300-400 words

The course instructor has the following expectations for each record in Part 2:

Use the templates provided

Create each record using MARC coding
Create each record using RDA
Fill-in all applicable fixed & variable fields
Consult authority records to determine the preferred form of name and
series access points

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Consult LCSH to construct valid subject headings/subject strings (as many

as you deem appropriate for the item, but there needs to be at least one (1)
subject heading/subject string per record)
Consult LCC to construct one, full call number per record

You are encouraged to consult the course Lessons and Assessments, as well as
resources such as RDA Toolkit and OCLC Bibliographic Formats & Standards
website. If you have any questions about the exam (about the logistics of
completing the exam or if you need clarification on one or more of the items), you
must contact the professor via email. You MAY NOT consult another person about
exam content (such as other students, librarians, etc.) nor may you post
questions about the exam in the Blackboard discussion forum or outside email or
discussion lists. Any postings made about the exam in the discussion forum for
the duration of the exam period will be deleted.
Complete the Final Exam within this Word document. Put your name after "Your
Name" at the top of the first page and change the file name of this document to:
YourLastName_FinalExam.doc (e.g., Snow_FinalExam.doc). The file extension can
be either .doc or .docx.
Upload the completed document to the Assignment tool within Blackboard by
11:55pm CST on the due date noted within the Weekly Schedule. Please do not
wait until the last minute to upload your exam. Please review the step-by-step
guide to uploading assignments in Blackboard.
If you have any technical difficulties that prevent you from uploading your
completed document to the Assignment tool within Blackboard, email it to the
professor's outside email address (which can be found in the course Syllabus). It
will not be counted as late as long as the exam is received in the professor's inbox
by 11:55pm CST the day it is due.

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Part 1
Answer the following questions within this exam. With the exception of question
3, each answer should be around 100-200 words (if you are a little above or a
little below that amount, that's fine). I expect an answer of around 300-400
words for question #3. Cite your sources if you directly quote or paraphrase a
source. Use in-text citations and list your sources at the end of your answer.
1) Review Charles Cutter's Objects and Means for a library catalog. Now consider
RDA as a manual for achieving those objectives. Identify two specific RDA rules
(meaning: include the RDA rule number) that help make Cutter's objectives an
achievable reality. Briefly discuss your choices and how each will make Cutter
happy.
Being able to locate a book is one of the most important jobs at a library. It
does not matter if it is the patron/customer or a librarian that is trying to locate
the book. Cutter states in his Objects and Means for cataloging that cataloging is
important because enables a person to find a book when the author, title or
subject is known. Locating a book on a OPAC system should be as easy as typing
in one of those fields and getting the search results you need. To support this
part of Cutters object and means I chose RDA rule 2.2.2 which states that you
need to use the preferred source of information when cataloging an item. For
example, if you were cataloging a book, you need to first check the title page to
get the book title, author and publication information. This rule would make
Cutter happy because if one knew either the author, title of a particular item then
that person could easily locate it.
The third part of Cutters Object and Means states that catalogers need to
provide information in the OPAC system that would allow users to locate a book
by edition or by the books character. For this part I chose RDA rule 3.1.1, this
rule is a core rule that states If additional information is considered important for
identification or selection, take additional evidence from any source. This rule
would make Cutter happy because it covers his third object. Also, if a user
needed a DVD or a book on CD they could just search for that and still locate it
even if there is a book with the same title.
2) Choose one item from your personal collection or your local library (do not
choose an item that has been used as a FRBR example in this course). Think
about the item as it relates to the FRBR Group 1 Entities (Work, Expression,
Manifestation, and Item). Discuss attributes of your item at the Work, Expression,
Manifestation, and Item level. Describe how the library user will benefit from
describing the item in this way within a library catalog.
The item that I chose to discuss is a book, Thirst by Christopher Pike. In FRBR under Group 1, by me
selecting a book this would fall under item, this item is the physical book that I have in my personal
library. In describing the manifestation of this book, I would state that the publisher of this book is
Simon Pulse, in New York, published in the year 2009. To describe the work of the book I would state
that the author of this book is Christopher Pike. In stating the expression of this item, I would state
that the book that I currently have in hand is written in English. A library user will find these

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description useful when search for an item in a library system. Many times books may have the exact
same title, and if the record did not include the author as well as the title it would be difficult to locate.
Having these descriptions in a record makes it easier for users to locate the exact book that they
search for.

3) You just graduated from library school and you were fortunate to be hired as a
cataloging librarian at your neighborhood library - the Bliss Public Library. Your
immediate supervisor thinks you have done a great job so far, but there have
been major rumblings about lack of funding from the Library Board. Your job is on
the line, due in large part to the Board's continuing conviction that cataloging just
isn't worth it. In a rare moment of mercy, the Board has given you a chance to
talk to them directly. You have the opportunity to convince them that the work of
the cataloger is critical to the success of the library.
In the space below, discuss your presentation to the Board. Choose two things
you feel make the best case for the role of cataloging. Reflect upon the work you
have done this semester and consider everything we discussed. When choosing
your points to argue, keep in mind the benefits for the catalog user. Support your
case with specific examples and cite at least two of the readings (articles and/or
textbooks) in your answer.
Good Morning ladies and gentleman of the board.
My name is Keeshana Clark, and I am a newly hired cataloger here at Bliss Public Library.
I wanted to share with you the importance of what I do, how it relates to the success here
at the library. Catalogers are responsible for how the record is viewed in our OPAC
system, I make sure that users can differentiate one item from an item that may be
similar, thus locating the right item for this user. When library users enter the library I
want to ensure that their experience runs smoothly when locating an item. I am sure
that this is important to your goals of the library. Cataloging is like providing a map for
users, by knowing an author of a work this map leads you to other works by this author,
what genre this work is end with provide a map to other books in this genre and so forth.
Just think in the United Kingdom is 2004 there were 160,000 new titles or editions
published that year (Danskin, 2006). If you didnt have catalogers, it would be impossible
to keep up with this magnitude of items entering a library system. How would users be
able to locate this information? They wouldnt, the map would lead them to incorrect and
outdated information. Our library would fail at providing good service to our community,
then whom would come to this library to get their research or pastime books? The work
is of a cataloger is ever ongoing, not just because new items are constantly being
acquired, but because a collection will crumble unless it is continually maintained: books
disappear and need to be reordered, they are damaged and need to be repaired, they are
misshelved (Levy, 2005). Without an accurate catalog they will be lost forever. I know
that many of you are not directly aware of what I do, but before you make your final

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decision, I ask that you take a moment to become a library user, search our database for
a topic or book that interest you and discover if you can indeed locate this item by title,
author, or subject. After that think about how you would feel if you or the librarian could
not locate that same information. If this happened whenever you used this library would
you continue come back? Thank you, for giving me the opportunity to share with you
why cataloging is important to the success of the Bliss Public Library. I hope that I was
able to display how information is cataloged in our system by providing a map for users
to get them to what they are trying to locate. Does anyone have any further questions?

Danskin, A. (2006). "Tomorrow never knows" : the end of cataloguing? World Library and
Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, 20-24 August 2006,
Seoul, Korea.
Levy, David M. (1995). "Cataloging in the digital order." In Digital Libraries '95: The
Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, June 11-13,
1995, Austin, Texas.

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Part 2
In this section, you must provide a bibliographic record for each of the items
represented here. Use the information provided for you for each item to create
your records. You will be provided with a title page, title page verso, cover, and/or
a table of contents, as well as further information about each item (such as page
numbers and dimensions). Assume that each of items below is an actual book,
written by actual people. Make sure you find the preferred forms of names, series
titles, and subject headings. Use the templates (variable and fixed field) provided
to transcribe your answers. Use MARC coding for all answers!
You will not need to use every field for every record. Leave the MARC field blank if
you do not use it. You do not need to delete it. Please feel free to add fields as
needed (e.g., add an additional 246 for multiple variant title fields.) In MARC
field codes, replace the x's in with the appropriate MARC field code (e.g., change
5xx to 504 for a note on the inclusion of a bibliography). The underscores ( _ )
represent the first (1st) and second (2nd) indicators. Replace the underscore with
the appropriate indicator value where needed.
Please transcribe your answers using blue font.

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Item #1 (Book)

Title Page

Andrew Jackson:
His Amazing Life and Presidency
Dr. Robert V. Remini
and
Matthew Warshauer

Random House
Paris -- New York -- Tokyo
2002

1st Random House Classics Edition

Table of Contents

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Table of Contents
Preface...............................................................................................................
..............ii
Introduction.......................................................................................................
..............iv
Chapter 1 - Jackson and the Age of the Democratic
Revolution......................................1
Chapter 2 - A Roaring
Fellow...........................................................................................22
Chapter 3 - "Jackson and
Reform"...................................................................................38
Chapter 4 - First-term
troubles........................................................................................59
Chapter 5 - Democracy and the Monster
Bank...............................................................73
Chapter 6 - The Nullifiers'
Uprising..................................................................................95
Chapter 7 - The Second Battle of the
Bank.....................................................................120
Chapter 8 - Slavery and
Democracy................................................................................141
Chapter 9 - Pushing
Westward........................................................................................167
Chapter 10 - Jackson's
Legacy.........................................................................................198
Conclusion.........................................................................................................
..............229
Bibliography.......................................................................................................
.............247

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Index..................................................................................................................
..............266

Additional Information:

This is a work of non-fiction (a biography)

Include the table of contents in your record!
Includes a bibliography (pages 247-265)
Includes an index (pages 266-278)
Preliminary pages are numbered ii through vii
The rest of the item is numbered 4 through 278
Includes black and white illustrations and maps throughout the work
In the middle of the item, there are 10 unnumbered leaves of plates
Item is 22.7 centimeters high
Item is 18.5 centimeters wide
ISBN: 1433805618
LCCN: 20028015176

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$a Andrew Jackson : $b his amazing life and presidency ; $c Dr. Robert

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246 _ _
250 _ _

$a 1st Random House classics edition.

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$a Paris : $b Random House, $c [2002?].

264 _ 4

$c 2002

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300 _ _

$a vii, 278 pages : $b illustration, maps ; $c 23 cm.

336 _ _

$a text $2 rdacontent

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Item #2 (Book)

Title Page

The End of Eternity

A Novel by Isaac Asimov
Foreword by Stephen W. Hawking

Stellar Science Fiction Series - number 35

Title Page Verso

Stellar Publishing Corporation

New York
Published in 1955
2nd Printing 1958
3rd Printing 1960
4th Printing 1975
Copyright 1954 - Isaac Asimov

Additional Information:

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This is a work of science fiction. Time travel is a major theme.

Item's pages are numbered 1 through 256
Item does not include any illustrations
Item is 16.8 centimeters in height
Item is 10 centimeters in width
Summary (from back cover of item): Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member
of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location
outside of place and time, Harlans job is to create carefully controlled and
enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated
shifts in the course of history made for the benefit of humankind. Though
each Change has been made for the greater good, there are always costs.
During one of his assignments, Harlan meets and falls in love with Nos
Lambent, a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns
that Nos will cease to exist after the next change, and risks everything to
sneak her into Eternity. Unfortunately, they are caught. Harlans
punishment? His next assignment: kill the woman he loves before the
paradox they have created results in the destruction of Eternity.
ISBN: 1563081765

010 _ _
020 _ _

$a 1563081765

050 _ _

$a PS 3551.S5 $b E53 1955

100 _ _

$aAsimov,Isaac,$d19201992,$eauthor.

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$a The end of eternity / $c a novel by Isaac Asimov ; forward by

Stephan W. Hawking.

246 3_

$a Stellar science fiction series

250 _ _
264 _ 1

$a New York : $b Stellar Publishing Corporation, $c 1955.

264 _ 4

$c 1954

300 _ _

$a 256 pages ; $c 17 cm.

336 _ _

$a text $2 rdacontent

337 _ _

$a unmediated $2 rdamedia

338 _ _

$a volume S2 rdacarrier

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490 1 _

$aStellarsciencefictionseries;$vnumber35

500 _ _

$a Time Travel.

520_ _

$a Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the

future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of

place and time, Harlans job is to create carefully controlled and
enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly
calculated shifts in the course of history made for the benefit of
humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater
good, there are always costs. During one of his assignments,
Harlan meets and falls in love with Nos Lambent, a woman who
lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that Nos will
cease to exist after the next change, and risks everything to
sneak her into Eternity. Unfortunately, they are caught.
Harlans punishment? His next assignment: kill the woman he
loves before the paradox they have created results in the
destruction of Eternity. - - Back cover.
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Item #3 (Book)

Title Page

An American Yarn: Patriotic Knitting Projects Created Throughout

the United States
by
Judith Durant
Carri Hammett
Clara Parkes
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
J.B. Sharp

Title Page Verso

Albino Squirrel Press

Yarntastic Edition - January 1995

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Additional Information:

This is a work of non-fiction.

On the cover, the title is given as: Patriotic Knitting Projects of the United
States
No place of publication given on item and you cannot find anything about
the location of the publisher after performing outside research.
The item is unnumbered, but you count 44 pages in the item.
Includes illustrations - all in color
22 centimeters high
26.3 centimeters wide
ISBN: 083890842X

Look to see if I need $ for 020 field

010 _ _
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$a TT 819.U6 $b D87 1995

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$aDurant,Judith,$d1955$eauthor.

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$a An American yarn: $b patriotic knitting projects created throughout the

United States / $c by Judith Durant, Carri Hammett, Clara Parkes, Stephanie
Pearl-McPhee, J.B. Sharp.

246 34

$a Patriotic knitting projects of the United States

250 _ _

$a Yarntastic edition.

264 _ 1

$a [Place of publication unidentified] ; $b Albino Squirrel Press, $c 1995.

264 _ _
300 _ _

$a 44 unnumbered pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 22 x 27 cm.

336 _ _

$a text $2 rdacontent

337 _ _

$a unmediated $2 rdamedia

338 _ _

$a volume S2 rdacarrier

490 _ _
500_ _
5xx _ _

$a Cover Title: Patriotic knitting projects of the United States.

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$a Knitting $z United States.

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