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Cataloging for School Librarians: It’s Child’s Play! Or is it? Basic Tools for Cataloging

This cataloging resource provides essential tools for school librarians to effectively catalog bibliographic and authority records. Learn about various record sources, vendors, consortia, and protocols like Z39.50. Understand MARC authority records and headings, and access resources like AACR2, DDC, and MARC 21.

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Cataloging for School Librarians: It’s Child’s Play! Or is it? Basic Tools for Cataloging

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  1. Cataloging for School Librarians: It’s Child’s Play! Or is it?Basic Tools for Cataloging Sources for Bibliographic and Authority Records, Helpful Tools Margaret Maurer Kent State University Libraries and Media Services

  2. Record Sources: Vendors • Material vendors • Automation system vendors • Bibliographic record vendors • Contract catalogers

  3. Record Sources: OCLC • WorldCat • TechPro • Cataloging Partners • PromptCat • Subscription services – CatExpress

  4. Record Sources: Consortia • Group purchasing power • Centralized cataloging • Cooperative collection development • INFOhio

  5. Record Sources: Z39.50 • LC maintained • International standard that specifies a protocol for searching and retrieving information from remote databases • Allows you to bring in a copy of a bibliographic record from another Z39.50 compliant library database

  6. Z39.50 • Congestion at popular library sites • Sharing implies reciprocity • Who owns your records? • Establish a policy • Lack of consistency among vendor implementations

  7. Record Sources: CIP • Created to provide useful data for the local cataloging record • It is often based on pre-publication data and must be checked.

  8. Understanding MARC Authority Records

  9. Sources of Authority Records & Headings • OCLC • Authority control vendors • Manually by re-keying Library of Congress Records • Other libraries

  10. Library of Congress Subject Headings • In print - 28th ed • Classification Web

  11. LCSH Headings via the Web • Free from the Library of Congress • LC does not support Z39.50 access to authority records

  12. Sears List of Subject Headings By Minnie Earl Sears. Edited by Joseph Miller.

  13. Anglo American Cataloguing Rules - AACR2 • In loose-leaf • Via Cataloger’s Desktop

  14. Dewey Decimal Classification • WebDewey • Abridged WebDewey • DDC 22 • Abridged DDC 14th

  15. MARC 21 • MARC 21 – in print and on the web • MARC 21 Concise format • MARC code lists

  16. MARC 21 LITE Bibliographic Format

  17. Understanding MARC Bibliographic

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