Union Bugs
Library Cataloging

Union Bugs


The Proposal for Inclusion of Union Label Description In Bibliographic and Archival Cataloging Guidelines is available. This is information that may be useful to rare book catalogers. It deserves to be included in a description of an item if it will aid in distinguishing it from another edition or printing. I've seen these and never paid much attention to them. Seen at librarian.net




- New Union Catalog
The Avi Chai Foundation has announced a new tool for Judaica librarians ? the Avi Chai Bookshelf Union Catalog. The union catalog, contains the MARC bibliographic holdings of 31 Jewish high school libraries in the United States and Canada that have been...

- Union Catalogs
Union Catalogs of the World at Info Connect is a listing, sorted by place, of union catalogs. They are also looking for submissions of catalogs they have missed to add to the listing.As long as the union catalogs being submitted, are in electronic format...

- Cataloging
One of the sites linking to Catalogablog has the description "A cataloging Web log. Not as boring as it sounds" Well, cataloging does not sound boring to me. I think it is a fascinating profession. To take an item and craft a bibliographic description...

- Archives
The two main standards for archival description Rules for Archival Description (RAD) and Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts (APPM) are being brought into alignment. "Saving room for CUSTARD" by Randall C Jimerson in OCLC Systems & Services vol....

- Archives
I've just noticed I've yet to mention the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). This co-operative effort ranks with OCLC and RLIN as one of the most useful in the history of information description.The National Union Catalog...



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