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What does a book cataloger do?
Book catalogers classify literature resources, compile catalogues and establish a collection catalogue system.

Classify each document resource (such as books, CDs, tapes, newspapers, publications, etc.). ) According to certain standards (such as China Library Classification), give it a classification number (put a label on the book), and register records (now it is entered into the computer database, previously it was recorded on the card), such as title, author, publisher, time, classification number, price and collection.

The work of book cataloging includes the following steps: registering the compiled literature resources, labeling them with bar codes, backtracking books, labeling them with documents, establishing the collection according to the labeling, and finally finishing the collection.

Extended data:

Cataloging object

Cataloging objects include: library collection, archives collection, joint collection, personal collection or a certain type of characteristic literature. Specific to the library cataloging work is to classify the literature resources, compile the catalogue and establish the collection catalogue system.

This is the need for the library to manage hundreds of thousands and millions of literature resources, and it is also the need to provide readers with a variety of retrieval methods. The cataloging of video and audio materials can help directors find the tapes or films they want quickly and accurately, so that the video and audio materials can be reused and the waste of manpower, material resources and funds brought by shooting can be saved.

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