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Practical Cataloguing Question Paper

Practical Cataloguing

Course:Bachelor Of Library And Information Science

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2009

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

BLIS 203:
PRACTICAL CATALOGUING
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DATE: WEDNESDAY 23RD DECEMBER 2009
TIME: 8.00 A.M. – 10.00 A.M.

INSTRUCTIONS

Answer THREE Question.
One Question from each Section must be attempted.

SECTION A.

1.
Explain the use of references in cataloguing and the relationship between headings in the Library of Congress Subject Headings.

SECTION B
Using the AACR2 Sears list of subject headings, and following the second level of description, prepare main catalogue entries with the necessary notes and tracings for a divided dictionary catalogue for books whose titles and other relevant details are given below in questions 2 and 3.
2. TITLE PAGE
THE ENVIRONMENT OF SCHOOLING
Formal Education as an Open Social
System
by
Robert E Herriot and
Benjamin J Hodgkins
Edited by Annabel Z Dodd
2005
McMillan Book Publishers
London. Nairobi. Phoenix
OTHER DETAILS
This book belongs to the “Education and Learning Series”. It measures 23.1 cm in height and 10.2 cm in width. Its ISBN is 1-872968-00-7. Preliminary pages marked in Roman numerals are 12 followed by text pages marked 13 – 231. The book has a bibliography covering pages 227-229.
3. TITLE PAGE
Education and Development
Anne Gresham, Dyfed Herts,
Aligbell Berl and J. Walter
Translated from French to
English by Kempthorne Ley
2009
Oxford University Press
New York. Oxford. Nairobi
OTHER DETAILS
This book belongs to the “Regional Development Series” and it is number 5 in the series. Its International Standard Book Number is 0-13-259011-5 and it measures 21.5 centimeters in height and 11.2 centimeters in width. It has 210 pages in total and the preliminary pages marked in roman Numerals are Twelve. It has a bibliography covering pages 206-208.

SECTION C
Using the AACR2, the library of Congress subject headings and following the second level of description, prepare main catalogue entries with the necessary notes and tracings for a divided dictionary catalogue for the books whose titles and other relevant details are given below in questions 4 and 5.
4. TITLE PAGE
Bakers
and
Bakeries
Edited
by
P.K.R
Hagler
With a preface by

G.E. Hamilton
Third Revised Edition
CHAPMAN
AND
HALL
Toronto . London. Kisumu
OTHER DETAILS
This book is twelve centimeters in height and twenty centimeters in width. Its ISBN is 0- 582-64533-6. Its preliminary pages are nine and text pages are numbered 1-302. The book’s probable date of publication is 2003. It is illustrated and some to the illustrations are in colour.
5. TITLE
PAGE
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of
Despair
20 Poemas de Amor una Cancio’n
Desesperada

By
SA
Akintoye

IIlustrated by K.O Dike

Longman Publishing Group
Tokyo. Toronto. London.
OTHER DETAILS
This book is 14 centimeters in height and six centimeters in width. It belongs to the “True love series” and it is number 3 in the series. It is illustrated in colour. Its preliminary pages which are in roman numerals are 12 while text pages are numbered 1356. It has bibliographies spread throughout the text.
NB: The approximate date of publication of this book is between 1992 and 2000.

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