The World of Information and Library Science: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: Blog Assigment

This assignment involved the creation of this Blog. The Blog itself is the end result. Activities about a variety of assignments done during the second semester at the School of Information - University of South Florida is described in here. It was my first experience creating a Blog, and it was a great experience.

HENRIETTE AVRAM & THE MARC FORMAT

Henriette Davidson Avram was born in New York on Oct 07th, 1919, and passed away on April 22^nd,2006. Henriette Avram, started her professional computer analyst careerat the National Security Agency. She continued growing on her profession at Datatrol Corporation – one of the first computer software firms in United States. In 1965, Henriette joined the Library of Congress staff team as a Systems Analyst. After Henriette D. Avram, the history of library automation, and the way librarians do cataloging were never the same. In the early eighties, Avram became the Director for Processing Systems, Network and Automation Planning at Library Congress. By 1983, she was managing over one thousand technical staff.

MARC record is a tool libraries use to perform cataloging of different printed and non-printed items or works (books, e-books, magazines, journals, 3D objects, audio-video items,...etc.). Cataloging can be descriptive, meaning physical description of an
item (title, author, location); and subjective which is related toclassification and subject headings issues. For descriptive cataloging information specialists use AACR2 – Anglo American Cataloging Rules, which it is being replaced by RDA – Resource Description and Access. RDA is just a revised version of AACR2, covering descriptive needs for digital, and online information resources. For subjective cataloging, information specialists most commonly use DDC – Dewey Decimal System,and LCSH - Library of Congress Subject Headings.

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