Badke Ch 5: Library of congress

In this chapter, Badke introduces us to the library of congress and explains to us how Meta data is used and controlled to properly document every piece of work that is stored by libraries in the US. He tells us that meta-data is a word used to describe the: authors, title, publisher information, description, subject heading and call number of any work stored by the library. We also discussed this in class and how there are people who live their lives just collecting and sorting and properly labling books, magazines, periodicals, etc… I am glad they do it because it makes my life much easier when searching for things within databases.