1. 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. 2 Record Sources: Vendors Material vendors Automation system vendors Bibliographic record vendors Contract catalogers

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

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

5. 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. 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. 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.

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9. 9 Understanding MARC Authority Records

10. 10 Sources of Authority Records & Headings OCLC Authority control vendors Manually by re-keying Library of Congress Records Other libraries

11. 11 Library of Congress Subject Headings In print - 28 th ed Classification Web

12. 12 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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14. 14 Sears List of Subject Headings By Minnie Earl Sears. Edited by Joseph Miller.

15. 15 Anglo American Cataloguing Rules - AACR2 In loose-leaf Via Cataloger’s Desktop

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18. 18 Dewey Decimal Classification WebDewey Abridged WebDewey DDC 22 Abridged DDC 14 th

19. 19 MARC 21 MARC 21 – in print and on the web MARC 21 Concise format MARC code lists

20. 20 MARC 21 LITE Bibliographic Format

21. 21 Understanding MARC Bibliographic

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