The State Library of Pennsylvania Cataloging presentation. Scheduled for Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM in the Hilton, Harrisburg, PA. Also check State Library of Pennsylvania Cataloging PALA 2009 (Portrait Slides), which is the slides which belong in slide #s 72-73 of this presentation.
State Library of Pennsylvania Cataloging PALA 2009
1. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Cataloging But Were Afraid to Ask or Help! Our Cataloger Left and I Have to Pick Up the Slack Jean Bahner, Aaron Bert, Kurt Bodling, Tom Duszak, Bill Fee, & Mary Spila October 20, 2009
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3. “ The best cataloging is a compromise somewhere between just putting books on shelves and reproducing the complete text in an indexed form as some hope to do in an online environment.” --p.590 in Carol Casey’s “An Analytical Index to the Internet: Dreams of Utopia,” College and Research Libraries , 60:586-595 (Nov.1999)
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11. MARC 21 formats are standards for the exchange of data in machine-readable form. The five formats are: --authority --bibliographic --classification --community information --holdings.
12. MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data is designed to be a carrier for bibliographic information about printed and manuscript textual materials, computer files, maps, music, continuing resources, visual materials, and mixed materials. Bibliographic data commonly includes titles, names, subjects, notes, publication data, and information about the physical description of an item.
13. The MARC record structure consists of three main components: --Leader --Directory --Variable fields.