Library Cataloging
Here is a field that was brought to my attention by the talk by Bill Moen at Access 2005, 656. "An index term that is descriptive of the occupation reflected in the contents of the described materials." I've never used this. Not many folks have, it seems. He had a collection of seven million records and it only appeared once. When would this be used rather than a 650?
Subjects
- Field 720
Why do I so rarely see field 720 used? I just downloaded a record that had two names not in the LC Authority file, yet both were in field 700. Here is the description of field 720 from MARC Full. Added entry in which the name is not controlled in an authority...
- Giving Thanks
MIT has a great feature on their catalog, one that should be on many of ours, thanking the donor. Donations are an important part of many of our institutions' budgets. Encouraging more makes sense. Why not use the catalog to bring the importance of...
- End Users
I've been listening to a talk Bill Moen gave at the TLA 2004 conference on my MP3 player. (TLA makes CDs of the conference with MP3 files of the talks available for a very reasonable sum.) In it he talks about our end users. Those are the folks walking...
- Facet Analysis
Towards a knowledge structure for high performance subject access and retrieval within managed digital collections is being researched in the UK.This research will focus on application of such this method in the field of humanities and will try to answer...
- Titles
Here is a field I was unaware of until recently: 242 Translation of Title by Cataloging Agency. OCLC documentation. We can translate the tile to provide better access to these items. This is not for parallel titles but a translation done by the person...
Library Cataloging
Subject Access
Here is a field that was brought to my attention by the talk by Bill Moen at Access 2005, 656. "An index term that is descriptive of the occupation reflected in the contents of the described materials." I've never used this. Not many folks have, it seems. He had a collection of seven million records and it only appeared once. When would this be used rather than a 650?
Subjects
- Field 720
Why do I so rarely see field 720 used? I just downloaded a record that had two names not in the LC Authority file, yet both were in field 700. Here is the description of field 720 from MARC Full. Added entry in which the name is not controlled in an authority...
- Giving Thanks
MIT has a great feature on their catalog, one that should be on many of ours, thanking the donor. Donations are an important part of many of our institutions' budgets. Encouraging more makes sense. Why not use the catalog to bring the importance of...
- End Users
I've been listening to a talk Bill Moen gave at the TLA 2004 conference on my MP3 player. (TLA makes CDs of the conference with MP3 files of the talks available for a very reasonable sum.) In it he talks about our end users. Those are the folks walking...
- Facet Analysis
Towards a knowledge structure for high performance subject access and retrieval within managed digital collections is being researched in the UK.This research will focus on application of such this method in the field of humanities and will try to answer...
- Titles
Here is a field I was unaware of until recently: 242 Translation of Title by Cataloging Agency. OCLC documentation. We can translate the tile to provide better access to these items. This is not for parallel titles but a translation done by the person...