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Cataloging
About: Cataloging is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4770 publications have been published within this topic receiving 32489 citations.
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TL;DR: The article describes the process followed at one academic institution to develop appropriate procedures and put them into practice and provides some strategies and cautions that should be useful to any cataloging unit preparing to undertake an ER cataloging venture.
Abstract: Summary Getting ready to catalog Internet resources in a library's OPAC can be overwhelming. This article addresses the kinds of questions that must be answered in any project to catalog electronic resources (ERs). The article describes the process followed at one academic institution to develop appropriate procedures and put them into practice. It provides some strategies and cautions that should be useful to any cataloging unit preparing to undertake an ER cataloging venture. The process requires a lot of work, but is full of opportunities to build or cement relationships across functional work areas. It is possible to begin with limited experience cataloging electronic titles and build functional local expertise.
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TL;DR: What internal users of the catalog will find familiar in the new type of records and what will require a learning curve are shed on.
Abstract: Reference librarians' work will be affected by the upcoming change in cataloging standards from the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules to the Resource Description and Access (RDA). Reference librarians were asked to give their perceptions about RDA records. They found that RDA records were comparable in terms of quality and quantity of information. However, terms used in new fields that provide format information lacked clarity. RDA records live compatibly with their Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules counterparts but do have distinctive differences. This study sheds light on what internal users of the catalog will find familiar in the new type of records and what will require a learning curve.
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01 Aug 2013
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TL;DR: The first formalized list of “general material designations” (gmds) was published in 1978 in the second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, and since their introduction they have been controversial, as this investigation of the evolution ofmaterial designations explores.
Abstract: While directions for the use of “germane terms for the physical medium of the work” appeared in the 1964 Rules for Descriptive Cataloging in the Library of Congress: Phonorecords, most libraries choosing to integrate nonbook materials in their collections, either colour-coded their catalogue cards, or added two-digit media codes to call numbers. The first formalized list of “general material designations” (gmds)-placed immediately following the title proper as an early warning device-was published in 1978 in the second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. Since their introduction they have been controversial, as this investigation of the evolution of material designations explores.
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TL;DR: The MIT libraries were called upon to recommend a metadata scheme for the resources contained in MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project, and adapted established practices from AACR2 and MARC traditions when facing situations in which there were no precedents to follow.
Abstract: The MIT libraries were called upon to recommend a metadata scheme for the resources contained in MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project. The resources in OCW needed descriptive, structural, and technical metadata. The SCORM standard, which uses IEEE Learning Object Metadata for its descriptive standard, was selected for its focus on educational objects. However, it was clear that the Libraries would need to recommend how the standard would be applied and adapted to accommodate needs that were not addressed in the standard’s specifications. The newly formed MIT Libraries Metadata Unit adapted established practices from AACR2 and MARC traditions when facing situations in which there were no precedents to follow.
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