Cataloging for School Librarians - 3rd Edition by Marie Kelsey & Jen Spisak (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

This book covers the basics of creating MARC records to catalog library materials. It is designed with the school librarian in mind, and the fields covered are those the school librarian may need when creating or updating catalog records to increase their users' access to the materials in the library's collection.

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Cataloging for School Librarians 3rd edition by Marie Kelsey and Jen Spisak is a refreshing update to the previous editions. This edition recognizes the changes in school library cataloging and provides a realistic image of cataloging in the modern-day school library. This text is a must-have for any cataloging course!

About the Author

Marie Kelsey, Ph.D., professor emerita, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, recently completed a forty-year career in librarianship, twenty-seven of which were devoted to cataloging and technical services in academic libraries. She is also a licensed K-12 librarian and retired director of the Educational Media and Technology program at St. Scholastica.

Dr. Kelsey earned her master's degree in English at Bemidji State University and her master's and Ph.D. degrees in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has authored several articles on cataloging and other aspects of school librarianship. In 2006, her book Ulysses S. Grant, A Bibliography (Praeger, 2005) was named one of the five best bibliographies of the year in history by the Reference & User Services Association (ALA) History Section's Bibliography and Indexes Committee.

Jen Spisak, Ph.D., assistant professor, Longwood University, has spent over two decades in the field of education with experience as a teacher, school librarian, and assistant professor. She has previously been honored as her school's Teacher of the Year and as the Virginia Association of School Librarians School Librarian of the Year. She currently teaches cataloging to school librarianship students.

Dr. Spisak earned her master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction and her endorsement in Library Media and her Ph.D. in Educational Research and Evaluation from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of Multimedia Learning Stations: Facilitating Instruction, Strengthening the Research Process, Building Collaborative Partnerships as well asa number of articles in the field of school librarianship.