Cataloging Manga & Anime

The December 2005 issue of TechKNOW (care of Kent State U.’s TSLibrarians listserv)  is out. (It’s actually been out for a while, but the hyperlink I had only started working a short while ago–it’s fixed.)  This quarter Jeanne Poole covers cataloging cleverly selected bits and pieces of the wacky (and not entirely consistent) world of Japanese anime and manga. We get a brief history of the art form and a bunch of well-formed MARC records to boot.  Good stuff, folks.

(Why can’t I write articles like this?  I own manga and anime; I’m friends with the Editor in Chief of Media Blasters, for corn’s sake.  Grrr…)