Problems of description of electronic online resources in contemporary library cataloguing practice

The topic of the thesis is bibliographic description of electronic online resources in foreign and Czech contemporary cataloguing practice. The first part of the thesis analyzes the development of description of electronic online resources in 90th of the 20th century along with an introduction of important foreign projects which contributed to this development. The paper analyzes in detail all areas of bibliographic description according to ISBD(ER) and the fields of MARC 21 format used for description of electronic online resources. The thesis also evaluates cataloguing practice of the National library of the Czech Republic within WebArchiv project and building of subject gateways. The heart of the thesis is detailed analyze of illustrating examples of description of electronic online resources including cataloguing records with comments clarifying some difficult questions of desciption of this resources. Final part of the thesis analyzes alternative approaches in the field of bibliographic description of electronic online resources, escpecially metadata formats and their most widespread representative within library community - Dublin Core. The thesis deals also with possible future perspectives of cataloguing practice and shortly introduces new cataloguing standard RDA