What is Tracing in Library Cataloguing - Library Science

What is Tracing | Define Tracing | Tracing in Library Science 

Tracing in Library Cataloguing - The first task of the library is to make available to the readers their desired books.

Also, the Library Catalog plays a major role in preserving the five laws of library science and in doing this work.

Two types of entries are made for library catalog work, one main entry, and the other non-entry. 

The titles of the non-entry entries are placed in the main entry. Describing the main information of other entries in the main entries is called Tracing.

This is an important work in which it is known how many helpful entries have been made of the main entries and this helps the library staff to convey information to the readers.

The reader wants to explore any book from different dimensions. If someone remembers the author's name, he would like to search with the author.

If someone remembers the legend, he would like to search through the legend; Someone wants to search by topic. In this way, different entries of a single book are made keeping in mind the different approaches of the readers.

The tracing the function is usually done to assist the library staff so that the employees know how many other entries have been made and where the main entry But readers also get the benefit of tracing.

The tracing work is performed at the bottom of the entries made according to A ACR-II, followed by the note section and the main entries made according to the CCC to the back of the card. 

Thus we see that tracing is given an important place in entries made in both AACR-II and CCC.

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 The utility of Trancing 

The tracing library is an important part of the catalog whose utility can be outlined as follows:

(1) Helping the staff - Signaling helps the library staff in getting the readers to access his book. This saves a lot of time for library staff.

(2) Information about the supporting entries of the main entry - The information can be obtained by signaling how many supporting entries of the main entries are there and where it is.

(3) For full-text description - Sometimes the reader needs complete details about a book and tracing for this proves to be very helpful.

(4) Key to non-entry entries - The type is the key to the catalog library collection, similarly, the key to non-tracing entries is through it, the non-entries are accessed.

The reader wants to explore any book from different dimensions. In this way, different entries of a single book are made keeping in mind the different approaches of the readers.

The tracing function is usually done to assist the library staff so that employees know how many other entries are made and where the main entry is made. But readers also get the benefit of tracing.

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