Focusing on audiovisual materials that are regularly collected by all types of libraries and the electronic resources that are rapidly being added to library collections, this book guides users in organizing sound recordings, video recordings, computer files, interactive multimedia, and Internet resources. It specifically demonstrates how to perform descriptive cataloging and subject analysis to these items using AACR2r, MARC, LC subject headings, classification schemes, and other guidelines accepted by the cataloging community. Readers will also discover how cataloging practices can be applied to new types of information resources and how cataloging is evolving in a changing information environment. Each chapter is devoted to a particular type of resource and includes ten cataloging records, information on the source items, and explanations of the records that illustrate the treatment of interactive multimedia and Internet resources.

Organization of information and cataloging -- Cataloging : an overview -- Sound recordings -- Videorecordings -- Computer files -- Interactive multimedia -- Internet resources -- Cataloging and the changing information environment.