Cataloguing and Classification for school media centres

Second edition, first impression

ISBN O 86981 911 9

School Match is a Columbus, Ohio-based firm in the United States of America which has a computerized database of information on approximately 16 000 public school districts. It was reported in American libraries (September 1987 and June 1988 issues) that School Match had found a definite correlation between good school media centres and high pupil achievement in the USA. A good media centre is expensive, but from the above information it appears to be a good investment. It has also been found that unless all or most of the teachers in a school make use of media in their teaching this investment will be under-utilized. In order to derive the maximum benefit from the media centre, the materials should be properly stored and organized. Part 1 of this book deals with the basic theory
of cataloguing and classification on which the storage, organization and retrieval of media and information are based. Part 1 should be read by subject teachers, media teachers and student teachers.

Part 2 is a manual and workbook for teachers wanting to learn how to catalogue print and non-print media, and how to classify media according to the Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification and relative index, 12th edition. Answers to the practical exercises are provided.