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Film, Video Mapping the Wilderness of Knowledge: The Card Catalog, Past, Present and Future

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Title

  • Mapping the Wilderness of Knowledge: The Card Catalog, Past, Present and Future

Summary

  • Panelists discussed the challenges of managing the "firehose of information" that is modern library collections, from using printed catalog cards to the development of MARC and BIBFRAME. The event began with an overview of the new book, "The Card Catalog: Cards, Books, and Literary Treasures," co-published by Chronicle Books in association with the Library of Congress.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Publishing Office, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2017-05-10.

Headings

  • -  Education
  • -  library, card catalog

Notes

  • -  Classification: Bibliography, Library Science, Information Resources (General).
  • -  Rebecca Brasington Clark, Peter Deveraux, Beacher Wiggins, Jennifer Baxmeyer, Christopher Cronin, Kathy Woodrell, Barbara Orbach Natanson.
  • -  Recorded on 2017-05-10.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687562

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Publishing Office. Mapping the Wilderness of Knowledge: The Card Catalog, Past, Present and Future. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-10, 2017. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687562/.

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Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Publishing Office, S. B. (2017) Mapping the Wilderness of Knowledge: The Card Catalog, Past, Present and Future. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-10. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687562/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Publishing Office. Mapping the Wilderness of Knowledge: The Card Catalog, Past, Present and Future. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-10, 2017. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687562/>.