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MARC21 In Your Library
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Course description
An introduction to MARC & how it can work in your library automation system:
What is MARC and how does it tie in with cataloging to work effectively in your library's catalog? Nearly everyone who works in a library should know something about MARC.
Perfect for
For a beginning cataloger, this workshop is just the first step on your journey to excellence in cataloging. For an experienced cataloger, this workshop may reinforce your understanding of why correct MARC coding is important. For a non-cataloger, you will leave with a better understanding of how cataloging rules and MARC records work together to allow patrons to find the materials that we collect in our libraries.
Why take this course?
Have you ever wondered:
- Why a book can be found by its author and yet cannot be found by its title?
- Why only six books in Spanish appear to be in your databases, when you know you have sixty?
- Why the video version of HAMLET cannot be found without wading through all the book versions of HAMLET in your collection?
You can solve these fascinating types of riddles if you know just a bit about some of the codes in a MARC record. Come and join your colleagues to learn how to read a MARC record, and how to tell if some of the most important elements of the record are present and correct.
What you will learn
At the conclusion of this workshop, you should be able to read a MARC record, talk MARC, and understand how errors in MARC could affect a library catalog.
Topics covered include
- Library patrons, bibliographic information and the library catalog
- The rules for bibliographic information and the standards for MARC
- MARC21 records: what are they, why do we need them & how do we get them?
- MARC21 and the computerized catalogs of today
- MARC21 terminology
- MARC21 -- who need to know what?
- MARC21 codes you should know
- Indexed Fields
- Display fields
- Coded Fields
- Number fields
- Sample records to practive reading MARC21 Bibliographic records
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Course details
Course: F 300
Duration: 1 Day
Fee:
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150.00 |
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215.00 |
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