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Cataloging
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TL;DR: While most of the libraries studied prefer full record, cataloguing e‐journals separately with a brief record that identifies and locates the resource seems to be the best practice.
Abstract: MARC records and online policy documents of selected libraries were reviewed to study the approaches taken by libraries worldwide to catalogue electronic journals. In general, libraries catalogue those electronic journals that are subscribed by them on priority basis. Most of them annotate the e‐journal to the print record, some prefer to catalogue them separately, while the majority of the libraries adopt both approaches. While most of the libraries studied prefer full record, cataloguing e‐journals separately with a brief record (at least containing MARC fields 245, 500, and 856) that identifies and locates the resource seems to be the best practice.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges of metadata including cataloging to manage and provide access to collections and their role in order to bring order out of the chaos of the many different access systems.
Abstract: Librarians ereate metadata including cataloging to manage and provide access to collections. Two recent technological developments, the explosion in electronic publishing and the conversion of metadata previously unavailable online into machine-readable form, are providing challenges to cataloging. Disparate types of resources, such as images and museum objects, archives, and library collections in print and electronic form, must be brought together in a coherent information environment. While catalogers exclusively cannot do these tasks, they and their skills are essential to bring order out of the chaos of the many different access systems.
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TL;DR: How academic libraries are providing access to electronic journals is investigated through a survey carried out in November 2005, which asked questions about electronic journals in the library catalogue, Web-based lists of electronic journals on academic library Web sites and newer technologies such as OpenURL resolvers, metasearch engines and Google Scholar.
Abstract: Lisa O'Hara has been Electronic Resources Cataloguer at the University of Manitoba Libraries in Winnipeg, Canada since 2002. Prior to this, she held a variety of positions in cataloguing and technical services at academic, special and public libraries over a period of ten years. She has been a trainer for the CONSER coordinated Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program for the workshop on integrating resources since 2003 and has presented to local groups on providing access to electronic resources.
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TL;DR: The revision of AACR2 is based on four tenets: minor and repetitive word changes to the text, the removal of the concept of primary responsibility from the rules, the elimination of all rules concerning corporate main entry, and the integration of the added entry rules into the main portion of the text.
Abstract: The concept of the main entry has lost any meaningful purpose in today's online cataloging environment, despite a multiplicity of definitions. To bring current cataloging tools up-to-date, AACR2 chapter 21 and the MARC format need to be revised. The revision of AACR2 is based on four tenets: (1) minor and repetitive word changes to the text, (2) the removal of the concept of primary responsibility from the rules, (3) the elimination of all rules concerning corporate main entry, and (4) the integration of the added entry rules into the main portion of the text. Updating the MARC format includes the obsolescence of the IXX fields while altering the 7XX fields to indicate former main entries and from which entry the work in hand was Cuttered.
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TL;DR: The perceived importance of hands-on work in cataloging education led the authors to survey people who completed a cataloging practicum or internship, as well as supervisors of cataloging students or interns, to assess the successes and possible failures of the experience as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The perceived importance of hands-on work in cataloging education led the authors to survey people who completed a cataloging practicum or internship, as well as supervisors of cataloging practicum students or interns, to assess the successes and possible failures of the experience. Responding to the survey were 137 practicum or internship students and 131 supervisors. After analyzing the results of the survey, the authors compiled a list of best practices for students and supervisors in order to provide readers with practical advice on this important subject.
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