Your Name: Elizabeth Lovsin

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)

Cataloger's Desktop (SHM)
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.
Despite being developed a century after Charles Cutter published his
Objects and Means, the RDA cataloging code supports Cutters objectives in
modern libraries. Cutter declared that a user should be able to locate a book
when only the authors name is known (Cutter, 1904). RDA rule 9.2.2 states that a
preferred, or authorized, form of a persons name is used as an access point for
records (RDA Toolkit, 2012). This means that if a patron wants a book by C. S.
Lewis, he can search the catalog using that name and will locate all of the books
by Lewis. The use of the preferred form means that no matter whether he
searches with Clive Staples Lewis or C. S. Lewis, he will achieve the same
results.
In addition to the authors name, Cutter also argued that a patron should be
able to locate a book using only its title (Cutter, 1904). Two RDA rules that
support this objective are 2.3.2 and 2.3.6 (RDA Toolkit, 2012). Rule 2.3.2 is about
entering the title proper, or the primary name of the work, into the record. If a
patron searches for The Horse and His Boy, she should be able to find the
relevant record whether or not she remembers that C. S. Lewis wrote the book.
Under rule 2.3.6, which is about entering variant titles, she should still be directed
to the same record even if she types in the variant, The Horse & His Boy.
References
Cutter, C. A. (1904). Objects and means Rules of a Dictionary Catalog, 4th ed.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
RDA Toolkit. (2012). http://access.rdatoolkit.org/

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,

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Manifestation, and Item level. Describe how will the library user will benefit from
describing the item in this way.
A Dance with Dragons, by George R. R. Martin, is the fifth volume of his
series, A Song of Ice and Fire. At the work level, we must consider the
conceptual content of the book, or the story being told (Tillett, 2003, p. 3). It
will probably be most useful to describe the work as the fifth installment of A
Song of Ice and Fire, because that is what the content will remain, regardless of
possible reissues or translations, and users will likely benefit from seeing the
books of the series linked together (Denton, 2007, p. 49).
The expression level includes all of the different versions of the same
work (Denton, 2007, p. 49). I possess the expression in the authors original
English. If I wanted to brush up on my Italian, I would want to look for the
expression of the text in an Italian translation. The manifestation level is the
specific publication (Tillett, 2003, p. 2). The manifestation I own is the original
edition published by Bantam Books. If a user in the future wanted to locate a
later edition of the book, one given some kind of update, they would not want this
particular manifestation. Finally, the item level is the physical object (Tillett,
2003, p. 2). I own a slightly smudged hardcover copy that usually sits on the
bookshelf in my living room. A user might want to distinguish between items, for
instance, if they prefer paperback to hardcover.
References
Denton, W. (2007). "FRBR and the history of cataloging." In Taylor, A. (ed.)
Understanding FRBR: What it is and how it will affect our retrieval tools.
Chapter 4 (pp. 35-57). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
Tillett, B. (2003) What is FRBR? A conceptual model for the bibliographic universe.
Washington: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/whatfrbr.html

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

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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.
The continuation of cataloging work is vital to the success of the Bliss Public
Library. The purpose of the library is to provide the Bliss community with
information resources in as effectively and efficiently a manner as possible. In
Thomas Manns article, The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference,
Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries, he makes many persuasive
arguments about the needs for cataloging systems and librarians with the
knowledge to use them. Using one research query, he demonstrates the myriad
steps a reference librarian must take in order to provide a comprehensive body of
information, or the whole elephant, on a topic (Mann, 2007, p. 6). The
impressive reference work in this example would not be possible without the work
of catalogers. Mann summarizes the matter by explaining that the more effort is
put into the system by catalogers, the less effort is required by researchers at
the retrieval end (p. 16). In this way, we can save the time of our patrons!
Additionally, the proliferation of digital resources creates a demand for the
application of our traditional cataloging skills in new ways. Mann recommends
focusing cataloging efforts on the books in our libraries, which are the primary
resources used in major scholarship efforts (p. 29). In contrast, Alan Danskin,
argues that cataloging practices can and should be used to organize digital
materials. In his article, Tomorrow never knows: the end of cataloguing?
Danskin agrees with Mann that attempts to catalog the entire Internet are futile;
however, he says that there is a great need to catalog those parts that will be
most useful to future research (Danskin, 2006, p. 6). Our patrons will need
efficient access to digital materials as well as print, and we at Bliss Public Library
must be able to provide it to them. Librarians here, working in partnership with
other information professionals, can organize the exponentially growing body of
knowledge to make it accessible to our patrons (p. 7).

References
Mann, T. (2007). The Peloponnesian War and the future of reference, cataloging,
and scholarship in research libraries. Available at:
http://www.guild2910.org/Peloponnesian%20War%20June
%2013%202007.pdf

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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. Available:
http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/102-Danskin-en.pdf

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Part 2
In this section, you must provide bibliographic records 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

010 _ _

$a 20028015176

020 _ _

$a 1433805618

050 _4

$a E382 $b .R46 2002

100 1_

$a Remini, Robert V. $q (Robert Vincent), $d 1921-2013, $e author.

245 10

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

Remini and Matthew Warshauer.

246 _ _
250 _ _

$a 1st Random House classics edition.

264 _1

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

264 _4

$c copyright 2002

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300 _ _

$a vii, 278 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c

23 cm.

336 _ _

$a text $2 rdacontent

337 _ _

$a unmediated $2 rdamedia

338 _ _

$a volume $2 rdacarrier

490 _ _
504 _ _

$a Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-265) and index.

505 0_

$a Jackson and the age of the democratic revolution -- A roaring fellow -Jackson and reform -- First-term troubles -- Democracy and the monster bank
-- The nullifiers uprising -- The second battle of the bank -- Slavery and
democracy -- Pushing westward -- Jacksons legacy.

600 10

$a Jackson, Andrew, $d 1767-1845.

650 _0

$a Presidents $z United States $v Biography.

700 1_

$a Warshauer, Matthew, $d 1965- $e author.

7xx _ _
8xx _ _

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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 _4

$a PS3551.S5 $b E53 1955

100 1_

$a Asimov, Isaac, $d 1920-1992, $e author.

245 14

$a The end of eternity / $c a novel by Isaac Asimov ; foreword by Stephen W.

Hawking.

246 _ _
250 _ _
264 _1

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

264 _4

$c copyright 1954

300 _ _

$a 256 pages ; $c 17 cm.

336 _ _

$a text $2 rdacontent

337 _ _

$a unmediated $2 rdamedia

338 _ _

$a volume $2 rdacarrier

490 1_

$a Stellar science fiction series ; $v number 35

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$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.

5xx _ _
650 _ 0

$a Time travel $v Fiction.

655 _0

$a Science fiction.

700 1_

$a Hawking, S. W. $q (Stephan W.) $e author of foreword.

7xx _ _
830 _0

$a Science fiction series ; $v no. 35.

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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 that there are 44 pages.
Includes illustrations - all in color
22 centimeters high
26.3 centimeters wide
ISBN: 083890842X

010 _ _
020 _ _

$a 083890842X

050 _4

$a TT819.U6 $b D87 1995

100 1_

$a Durant, Judith, $d 1955- $e author.

245 13

$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 not identified] : $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 $2 rdacarrier

490 _ _
5xx _ _
5xx _ _
650 _0

$a Knitting $z United States.

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6xx _ _
700 1_

$a Hammett, Carri, $d 1956- $e author.

700 1_

$a Parkes, Clara, $e author.

700 1_

$a Pearl-McPhee, Stephanie, $e author.

700 1_

$a Sharp, J. B. $q (Joseph Budworth) $e author.

8xx _ _

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