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

Basic Tools for CatalogingSources for Bibliographic and Authority Records, Helpful Tools

Margaret Maurer

Kent State University Libraries and Media Services

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Record Sources: Vendors

• Material vendors

• Automation system vendors

• Bibliographic record vendors

• Contract catalogers

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Record Sources: OCLC

• WorldCat

• TechPro

• Cataloging Partners

• PromptCat

• Subscription services – CatExpress

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Record Sources: Consortia

• Group purchasing power

• Centralized cataloging

• Cooperative collection development

• INFOhio

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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

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Z39.50

• Congestion at popular library sites

• Sharing implies reciprocity

• Who owns your records?

• Establish a policy

• Lack of consistency among vendor implementations

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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.

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Understanding MARC Authority Records

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Sources of Authority Records & Headings

• OCLC

• Authority control vendors

• Manually by re-keying Library of Congress Records

• Other libraries

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

• In print - 28th ed

• Classification Web

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LCSH Headings via the Web

• Free from the Library of Congress

• LC does not support Z39.50 access to authority records

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Sears List of Subject Headings

By Minnie Earl Sears.

Edited by Joseph Miller.

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Anglo American Cataloguing Rules - AACR2

• In loose-leaf

• Via Cataloger’s Desktop

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Dewey Decimal Classification

• WebDewey

• Abridged WebDewey

• DDC 22

• Abridged DDC 14th

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MARC 21

• MARC 21 – in print and on the web

• MARC 21 Concise format

• MARC code lists

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MARC 21 LITE Bibliographic Format

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Understanding MARC Bibliographic

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