Library Cataloging
Bibliographical References
Over on AUTOCAT a series of posts brought to my attention that the correct form of the note is "Includes
bibliographical references." not
bibliographic. No big deal. But something I'd not been conscious of before. I had 84 with the wrong term in my catalog and while doing other things I did a global change to fix them. Not that any patron would ever notice. Just in case the cataloging police look at my records.
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Name Authority Records
News form LC concerning Name Authority Records.The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that OCLC has completed the pre-population of the NACO authority file with non-Latin references (authority 4XX fields) derived from non-Latin bibliographic heading...
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Talk Like A Pirate Day
Tuesday September 19th 2006 is Talk Like a Pirate Day. If you want to catalog like a pirate here is a start: Ahoy, includes bibliographical refarnces Gar, Where can I find a bottle o'rum?...
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Bibliographic References
Z39.29-200x Bibliographic References Abstract: This standard provides rules, guidelines, and examples for the creation of bibliographic references to numerous types of print, audiovisual and electronic materials, both published and unpublished, arranged...
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Cataloging Skills
Recently on AUTOCAT, there has been discussion about the skills needed by a cataloger. Here is my 2 cents. Catalogers are concerned with national and international standards. We have MARC21, AACR, the ISBDs, Z39.50 and so on. We like standards, interoperability,...
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Authority Records
This from the latest LC Cataloging Newsline: For some time now, LC's Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) has been processing and distributing to subscribers, including the bibliographic utilities, name authority records derived from the National...
Library Cataloging