Cataloging... Lisa gets confused

Chapter 4 had lots of helpful information in it. The discussion of keywords vs. subject headings was so useful. I'd been around school librarians who have tried to explain it to the kids, but honestly, I didn't really have a handle on it. I liked the idea of controlled vocabulary (42)--made sense.

Once Ch. 4 started into LCSH and Sears, I understood the advantages and disadvantages, but my brain was just screaming for everyone to agree! Just pick something already! I was really in for it once we started on the MARC tags. I could follow the ideas in each section, but it all seemed so very complicated. There was even punctuation from a different system. (I guess I should've tried to get a copy of Sears or LCSH or LC/AC.) I did a poor job with the exercises in this section. It's a good thing they weren't being graded! Hopefully the important part here is for me to know these tags exist and that I can look them up in this book when needed.

I loved the part about curriculum tags (67). It does seem like a lot of work to enter the extra information, but as the classroom teacher, I would love to be able to search by standard, especially for mentor texts that we would actually have on the shelves. Hopefully this tag could come already prepared with CCSS standards in the future.

(how much sense this all made to me at the beginning)