1st Edition

The United States Newspaper Program Cataloging Aspects

Edited By Ruth C. Carter Copyright 1986
130 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1986. Here is a valuable and engaging overview of the cataloging aspects of the United States Newspaper Program, the most extensive and comprehensive original cataloging enterprise undertaken in America. The importance of newspapers for purposes of historical research is obvious. The USNP was a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to... Read more

Foreword Jeffrey Field 1. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the United States Newspaper Program Harold Cannon 2. Coordination of Cataloging Practices in the United States Newspaper Program Robert B. Harriman, Jr. 3. Challenges of On-Site Cataloging Rebecca A. Wilson and Lydia Suzanne Kellerman 4. Perspectives on the Pennsylvania Newspaper Project at the University of Pittsburgh Faye Leibowitz and Cathy Sorensen 5. The Newspaper Cataloging Manual and AACR2 Jim E. Cole 6. Rethinking National Policy for Cataloging Microform Reproductions Crystal Graham 7. Newspapers and Their Readers: The United States Newspaper Program's List of Intended Audience Terms James P. Danky 8. Cataloging News Walter M. High

Biography

Ruth C. Carter was editor of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly for 20 years.