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MARC 21 in Your Library
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Course description
What is MARC and how does it work with cataloging to function effectively in your catalog? 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 database, 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 too can solve these fascinating types of riddles if you know just a bit about some of those confusing codes in a MARC record. Come and join your fellow beginners 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.
Topics covered:
- 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 and how do we get them?
- MARC21 and the computerized catalogs of today
- MARC 21 terminology
- MARC21--who needs to know what?
- MARC21 codes you should know
- Indexed fields
- Display fields
- Coded fields
- Number fields
- Sample records to practice reading MARC21 Bibliographic records
For a non-cataloger who is adventurous enough to attend this workshop, 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. For a beginning cataloger, this workshop is just the first step in your long journey to excellence in cataloging. For an experienced cataloger, this workshop may reinforce your understanding of why correct MARC coding is important. If you intend to come to Book Blitz I, you should come to this workshop first.
A detailed handout will be provided. A longer and more complete version of the handout has now been published by ALA under the title “MARC21 for Everyone: A Practical Guide”.
Perfect for
Directors, reference people, 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 read a MARC record, talk MARC, and understand how errors in MARC coding affect an OPAC.
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Course details
Duration: 1 Day
Fee:
$150 Western Members
$225 All Others
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