What is it about?
This article presents the results of a 2015 survey of librarians who catalog self-published items. The survey was conducted in response to the growing popularity of self-publishing and the increasing prevalence of self-published items in libraries. Survey respondents were asked to describe how they are cataloging these items and to provide representative examples of the records they have created. An analysis of both the survey responses and the records is presented, followed by suggestions for best practices for cataloging these items.
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Why is it important?
It is found out there is not much written about this topic from the catalogers’ perspective and this article is a significant contribution to the literature.
Perspectives
We hope to start a conversation with this article among librarians and we hope that there will be more research about this topic in the future, especially in the areas that we pointed out and could not cover.
Nurhak Tuncer
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This page is a summary of: The Cataloging of Self-Published Items, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, May 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01639374.2019.1602091.
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