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Prerequisites
Recommended prerequisites: MARC21 in Your Library
Course description
What is copy cataloging? It is not the same as original cataloging; it has its own special procedures and guidelines to be followed. This workshop provides an introduction to finding cataloging records that you can copy, explaining some of the more obvious challenges and some neglected database issues, with a brief look at essential editing. You will need to come to the Book Blitz (4 days) workshop to know how to do a really superb job of editing records that you copy, but this workshop will get you started in the basic principles of copy cataloging.
Topics covered:
- How to read a MARC Record for searching, matching and editing
- Search terms and their sources
- Matching books and records
- Special matching problems--Dates
- Special matching problems—CIP
- How to recognize what is wrong with a record, so that you can either fix it yourself or report it to someone else who can.
For example:
· Wrong indicators (especially filing and tracing indicators)
· Badly coded 008 (Fixed field)
· Missing subject headings
· Duplicate match keys
· Unverified headings
For a beginning cataloger, this workshop is the second step in your long journey to excellence in cataloging. (Your first step should be: ‘MARC21 in Your Library’) For an experienced cataloger, you may learn a few things you didn’t realize that you didn’t know. If you intend to come to Book Blitz I, you should come to this workshop first.
A detailed handout will be provided. Attendees should, if possible, bring a printout of a MARC record from their local automated system
Perfect for
Acquisitions people, copy catalogers, beginning catalogers, and experienced but untrained catalogers.
What you will learn
At the conclusion of this workshop, you should be able to find and copy records that accurately reflect your items.
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Course details
Duration: 2 Days
Fee:
$275 Western Members
$400 All Others
Instructor:
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