Library Cataloging
LC is looking for comments on the New Books Project.
- Subject Authority Records
News from LC.CPSO has begun a project to create subject authority records for every subject string appearing in bibliographic records to aid Library of Congress catalogers, and external users in the validation of LCSH subject heading strings. Effective...
- News From Lc
Bibliographic records distributed by CDS will no longer have a record status set to *p*. This record status was for Cataloging in Publication (CIP) records that had been previously distributed with an encoding level of *8*.This change in the use of record...
- Amazon.com Citations
Amazon seems to be getting into the citation linking game.Amazon.com Citations is a program that helps customers discover books related to the ones they're interested in. Amazon scans every book in the Search Inside the Book program looking for phrases...
- Isbd Database
The ISBDdb is an interesting project. As a Web service it could prove very useful.ISBNdb.com gets the data in a unique way - it scans libraries all across the world for book information. The scanning is random and similar in a way to how general purpose...
- Marc Records
Cornell University has announced that catalog records for the Cornell Digital Math Books Collection are now available. The records include durable links that allow free online viewing. The set of 511 MARC records the collection is now available via a...
Library Cataloging
New Books Project
LC is looking for comments on the New Books Project.
Participating publishers provide information about forthcoming books to the Library of Congress. New Books records are created by computer programs from this information and made available on the Library of Congress homepage. These records are also distributed by the Library of Congress's Cataloging Distribution Service to libraries and book sellers worldwide.This is a different program than CIP. The format of the records has yet to be determined, XML seems likely. The idea is for the new book record to point to the bib record. The format of the new book record allows indexing by Web search engines and provides an access point to the library catalog.
- Subject Authority Records
News from LC.CPSO has begun a project to create subject authority records for every subject string appearing in bibliographic records to aid Library of Congress catalogers, and external users in the validation of LCSH subject heading strings. Effective...
- News From Lc
Bibliographic records distributed by CDS will no longer have a record status set to *p*. This record status was for Cataloging in Publication (CIP) records that had been previously distributed with an encoding level of *8*.This change in the use of record...
- Amazon.com Citations
Amazon seems to be getting into the citation linking game.Amazon.com Citations is a program that helps customers discover books related to the ones they're interested in. Amazon scans every book in the Search Inside the Book program looking for phrases...
- Isbd Database
The ISBDdb is an interesting project. As a Web service it could prove very useful.ISBNdb.com gets the data in a unique way - it scans libraries all across the world for book information. The scanning is random and similar in a way to how general purpose...
- Marc Records
Cornell University has announced that catalog records for the Cornell Digital Math Books Collection are now available. The records include durable links that allow free online viewing. The set of 511 MARC records the collection is now available via a...