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Local Holdings Foundations

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Prerequisites

Local Holdings Introduction or equivalent experience.

Course description

This workshop presents a high-level introduction to the current standards for electronic holdings records (Z39.71 and MARC Holdings).  It then gives an in-depth review of the general principles and concepts of the standards, demonstrating how they work in partnership with each other to create a standardized holdings record that can be used by a wide variety of library systems, union lists, and OCLC’s WorldCat database.

What you will learn

The basic principles and concepts in the Z39.71 and MARC Holdings standards.

Topics covered include

  1.                 Z39.71 Data Fields and Elements
  2.                 Principles to create a standardized local holdings record
  3.                  MARC Holdings basic principles and characteristics
  4.                  Options for creating local holdings records

Follow up courses

Course details

Duration: 1/2 Day

Fee:

$30 Western Member

$75 Non-member

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