5) Artifact name: LI814 Cataloging and Classification Type: Manuscript MLS Outcome: P.O. 1, P.O. 4, P.O.

5 MLS Values: P.V. 1, P.V. 2, P.V. 3 Reflective Statement According to the LI814 syllabus for Spring 2013, the purpose of this course is to provide an:
Introduction to the theories, terms, concepts, and tools used to describe and organize information in libraries. Topics covered include: bibliographic description, choice of entry, subject analysis, and the Dewey Decimal classification system. In addition, this class includes basic training in creating MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging) records. Recommend: LI 804. The student also receives a cursory introduction to Resource Description Access (RDA). (Syllabus for LI814 Cataloging, Spring 2013, Ann ONeil)

In LI 814, I learned in detail about various classification systems from Panizzi to Cutter (Abbas, 2010) to Dewey to Library of Congress (LC). While in LI804, we were barely introduced to the American-Anglo Classification2 (AACR2) and MARC, here I was immersed in the specifics of cataloging a bibliographic record. I had some exposure to Resource Description Access (RDA), but the main focus of the course was on American-Anglo Classification2 (AACR2), Machine Readable MARC21, and Library of Congress Subject Headings. This artifact is catalog record I created from a book entry in Unlocking the Mysteries of Cataloging, Exercise 29, for a book of rap-sung nursery tales called Yo, Hungry Wolf: a Nursery Rap. Here was an opportunity for me to create a bibliographic cataloging record on my own, using the resources from the instructor, to feel the same joys and sorrows a real cataloger experiences on the job. I used Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) and Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2) to create a bibliographic record describing the resource (a book). For this and other assignments, I found the Library of Congresss Catalogers Desktop to access for AACR2, MARC21, and LC Authorities to be my new best friends.

The artifact in its entirety is listed below and is from Unlocking the Mysteries of Cataloging, Exercise 29: Vozar, D. (1993).Yo, Hungry Wolf: A Nursery Rap. New York: Random House.
010 $a 9146264 020 $a 0385304528 100 $a Vozar, David. 245 $a Yo, hungry wolf : $b A nursery rap / $c David Vozar ; illustrated by Betsy Lewin. 260 $a New York : $b Doubleday, $c c1993. 300 $a [48] p. : $b col. ill. ; $c 28 cm. 650 $a American nursery rhymes $v Juvenile fiction $z United States. 650 $a Rap (Music) $x African Americans $v Juvenile fiction $z United States. 700 $a Lewin, Betsy. NOTES: There were no other names or dates in LCNAF for either David Vozar or Betsy Lewin, so they are written as they are written.For the subject heading, I looked at African American music, but found that too broad for this book. Then, I found that American nursery rhymes, which I think works for the first subject heading, along with, Juvenile fiction, and United States (rap started in the U.S. in Harlem, I thi nk). Next, I searched on rap and got Rap (Music). The rap music entry may be a bit broad, but it does have relevance to the book, since the nursery rhymes are done with rap lyrics. Thus, I used it in the second entry, with African Americans as an ethni c subdivision, Juvenile fiction, and United States. I also looked under Little Red Riding Hood and found it a subject heading. However, I also looked under, but found nothing listed for The Three Little Pigs, or The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Since Rap (Music) and the nursery rhymes entries were all subject headings, they could not be mashed together, so my aim was to avoid doing that.

Listed below are the stated outcomes expected from taking LI814:
1. Describe the principles and purposes of cataloging and classification; 2. Use standard descriptive cataloging tools, such as the Anglo-American 3. 4. 5. 6.

Cataloging Rules (AACR2) and Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC); Create basic bibliographic records for monographs in the MARC format; Explain the purpose of authority control in cataloging; Apply Library of Congress Subject Headings to bibliographic records; Classify items using Dewey Decimal Classification.

I think that the stated outcomes for LI814 were more than adequately met. I finally mastered LC Subject Headings (a real head banger at first) and found I might really like being a cataloger and/or metadata librarian after all.

References Abbas, J. (2010). Structures for Organizing Knowledge. New York: NealSchumann. American Psychological Association. (2009). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Author. Library of Congress, Catalogers Desktop, Retrieved from http://desktop.loc.gov/template.htm;jsessionid=795FFF0DCC5F8A06 F23B21F087C5416C?view=main&h_action=clear (LC Authorities and Subject Headings can be accessed from Catalogers Desk top). Unlocking the Mysteries of Cataloging, Exercise 29: Vozar, D. (1993).Yo, Hungry Wolf: A Nursery Rap. New York: Random House.