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MARC21 Cataloging: By The Numbers

MARC21 Cataloging: By The Numbers. -or-  How Do I Communicate with an OPAC?. We Will Not Teach You To Catalog. You Will Understand: A) What a MARC Record Is B) How It Works C) Implications of Its Use. MARC Record Screenshot from http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/um11to12.html  10-20-2009.

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MARC21 Cataloging: By The Numbers

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  1. MARC21 Cataloging: By The Numbers -or-  How Do I Communicate with an OPAC?

  2. We Will Not Teach You To Catalog

  3. You Will Understand: A) What a MARC Record Is B) How It Works C) Implications of Its Use

  4. MARC RecordScreenshot from http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/um11to12.html 10-20-2009

  5. So What?  Image downloaded from http://macvarish.typepad.com 10-21-2009

  6. Real World Connections Image downloaded fromhttp://researchpark.arc.nasa.gov

  7. Bibliographic or Holding? MARC (or properly MARC21) has FIVE different types of records - we deal with 2 of them primarily as librarians MARC Bibliographic MARC Holding Records.

  8. MARC Holding Record(Actual Book Copy) MARC Bibliographic Record (Title Record) MARC Holding Record MARC Holding Record

  9. Fields Are Not... Image from Flickr.com - User Ducatirider - 10-20-2009

  10. Field Tags & Indicators...Oh My! Field Tag Indicator

  11. Main Entry

  12. Access Points Are Key Image downloaded from http://www.eftrends.com 10-21-2009

  13. Where Does Cataloging Come From? KEY TERMS -MARC21 -AACR2 -Library of Congress Classification (LoC) -Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) -Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC22) -Sears Subject Headings (SSH)

  14. Why Not Create Cataloging Intuitively?

  15. How Do You Find Stuff in a Library? Image downloaded from http://www.addledlibrarian.info/images/searchengine.jpg 10-21-2009

  16. Subject Headings -Are Added Entries (Searchable) -Controlled Vocabulary -LCSH or Sears Subject Headings (School Libraries generally use Sears)

  17. Take Away Point Every aspect of a MARC record is controlled by an outside authority - DDC22, Sears Subject Headings, MARC21, AACR2 for most school libraries.

  18. No Authority Control = Ineffective OPAC

  19. Copy Cataloging

  20. MARC Magician

  21. Visual Interface

  22. Follett MARC Editor

  23. Importing

  24. Bibliography Cartographic materials a manual of interpretation for AACR2, 2002 revision. Chicago: American Library Association, 2003. Print. Dewey, Melvil. Abridged Dewey decimal classification and relative index. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2004. Print. Dewey, Melvil. Dewey decimal classification and relative index. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, 2003. Print.

  25. Bibliography (cont'd) Michael, Gorman,. Concise AACR2. Chicago: American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2004. Print. Sears List of Subject Headings. New York: Hw Wilson Co, 2007. Print. "Understanding MARC Bibliographic: Machine-Readable Cataloging." Library of Congress Home. 27 Oct. 2009. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. <http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/>.

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