Library Cataloging
Anyone who has read AUTOCAT for even a week knows the name McRee (Mac) Elrod. (And if you are not reading AUTOCAT what are you doing here?) I have benefited many times from his clear, considered comments on many cataloging issues. What I never knew was that his Web site, SLC, contains some resources useful to the catalogers. Some of the information is specific to his company and their approach but many of the resources are more general. For example, his "cheat sheets" include:
- Professional Reading
The latest issue (July 2004) of Library Resources and Technical Services has two articles that may be of interest.Chronological Terms and Period Subdivisions in LCSH, RAMEAU, and RSWK: Development of an Integrative Model for Time Retrieval across Various...
- Marc Tag Of The Month
The MARC Tag of the Month for November is a MARC Record Sample -- Sound Recording (Cassette). Other sample MARC records include:DVDElectronic Resource CD-ROMVideo-CassetteSound Recording -- CDElectronic Resource Web SiteRealia (AV Equipment)...
- Metadata
"Metadata mayhem: cataloguing electronic resources in the National Library of New Zealand" by Chris Todd appears in The Electronic Library v. 21, no. 3 (2003)This paper takes a chronological approach to the cataloguing of electronic resources within the...
- Cataloging In The Real World
This in press article provides some interesting reading. Please, abide by his request to access the paper in off hours, he has already received a warning from his ISP.I have some questions on why some of these non-standard practices exist. Why don't...
- Cataloging Electronic Resources
Implementing the Revised AACR2 Chapter 9 for Cataloging Electronic Resources: An Online Training Presentation The Cataloging Policy Committee of the Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. (OLAC), is pleased to announce the availability of an online training...
Library Cataloging
Cataloging Resources
Anyone who has read AUTOCAT for even a week knows the name McRee (Mac) Elrod. (And if you are not reading AUTOCAT what are you doing here?) I have benefited many times from his clear, considered comments on many cataloging issues. What I never knew was that his Web site, SLC, contains some resources useful to the catalogers. Some of the information is specific to his company and their approach but many of the resources are more general. For example, his "cheat sheets" include:
- Brief Government Documents
- Common MARC Fields
- Cuttering and Years
- Electronic Resource Cataloguing
- Form Subdivisions Coded $v
- Government Documents
- MARC Authority Records
- MARC Punctuation
- MARC Tag Mapping for OPACs
- MARC Title Fields
- Monograph Cataloguing
- Reclassification: DDC to LCC
- Serial Cataloguing
- Selected Cataloguing Tool Acronyms, etc.
- Sound Recording Cataloguing
- Video Cataloguing
- Professional Reading
The latest issue (July 2004) of Library Resources and Technical Services has two articles that may be of interest.Chronological Terms and Period Subdivisions in LCSH, RAMEAU, and RSWK: Development of an Integrative Model for Time Retrieval across Various...
- Marc Tag Of The Month
The MARC Tag of the Month for November is a MARC Record Sample -- Sound Recording (Cassette). Other sample MARC records include:DVDElectronic Resource CD-ROMVideo-CassetteSound Recording -- CDElectronic Resource Web SiteRealia (AV Equipment)...
- Metadata
"Metadata mayhem: cataloguing electronic resources in the National Library of New Zealand" by Chris Todd appears in The Electronic Library v. 21, no. 3 (2003)This paper takes a chronological approach to the cataloguing of electronic resources within the...
- Cataloging In The Real World
This in press article provides some interesting reading. Please, abide by his request to access the paper in off hours, he has already received a warning from his ISP.I have some questions on why some of these non-standard practices exist. Why don't...
- Cataloging Electronic Resources
Implementing the Revised AACR2 Chapter 9 for Cataloging Electronic Resources: An Online Training Presentation The Cataloging Policy Committee of the Online Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. (OLAC), is pleased to announce the availability of an online training...