TLA District 8 in October

Rosenberg librarians, Ruth Kelly and Poom Sunhachawi are presenting:

How to be a Copy Cat: cataloging essentials for the budding librarian/cataloger.

Session I

Saturday, October 13Aldine Senior High School
11101 Airline Drive, Houston, Texas 77038 (map)

Texas Library Association District 8

Copy Cataloging Resources List on the Net

Useful Web Sites for Catalogers These sites provide access to a whole range of resources to support cataloging and acquisition.

AcqWeb http://www.acqweb.org/
American Library Association: http://www.ala.org (publishes and sells AACR2)
Cataloger's Reference Shelf (collection of reference manuals on authority lists, classification guides, etc. for LC/MARC cataloging)
http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/CRS0000.htm

Cataloging Directorate: http://www.loc.gov/aba/
Connexion: http://connexion.oclc.org
Connexion tutorials: http://www.oclc.org/support/training/connexion

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov

LC’s online catalog: http://catalog.loc.gov

IFLANET Digital Libraries: Cataloging and Indexing Electronic Resources
http://www.ifla.org/II/catalog.htm
ILLINET/OCLC Office at Illinois State Library:
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/who_we_are/OCLC/home.html

Inforetriever - Internet Library for Librarians (comprehensive general resource, everything from dictionaries up) http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/cat.htm

Library Catalogs with Web Interfaces: Z39.50 gateways http://www.loc.gov/z3950/

MIT Cataloging Oasis (some neat links, e.g., geographic name server )
http://libstaff.mit.edu/colserv/cat/

OCLC: http://www.oclc.org/

School Librarians Desktop Reference (mostly a bibliography, but some useful links, e.g Vendors who provide MARC records…dated) http://teachers.redclay.k12.de.us/mary.tise/liblinks.html

TPOTS (Technical Processing Online Tools) http://tpot.ucsd.edu/

Web Accessible National and Major Libraries of the World Contact information for each
national library, includes: address, website url, and phone and fax number. Maintained by IFLA
http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm

Web site of common typographical errors in library databases
http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/typoscomplete.html


Miscellaneous Sites


Autocat Web site: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/autocat

David Bigwood http://catalogablog.blogspot.com

How to be a Copy Cat see posting on http://rosenberg-library.org under Rosenberg
Library, then Rosenberg Blog

InterCAT is dedicated to facilitating communication concerning Internet resources and their
impact on libraries http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/archive/intercat.htm

OCLC Internet Cataloging project Subscribe via https://www3.oclc.org/app/listserv/ Web4Lib electronic discussion : http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/



As a guide for writing library procedures and manuals visit these sites.

Catalogers Manuals on the Web

Cornell University (brief guides) http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/

Georgetown University (AcqWeb, Currency conversion, Cataloging manual, Publisher & vendor information, dictionaries, etc.) http://library.georgetown.edu/dept/techserv/resources.htm

Indiana University Cataloging Guide
http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/resource/library/cataloging/

Kansas State University Libraries http://www.lib.ksu.edu/depts/techserv/faq.html

McGill University Libraries http://www.mcgill.ca/libraries-techserv/policies/

Northwestern State University http ://staffweb.library.northwestern.edu/

Oakland University library procedures
http://library2.oakland.edu/information/departments/techserv/procedures.htm

Penn State University (forms and guides) http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/cataloging/
Princeton University's Cataloging manual (well presented guide, including physical treatment of items) http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/catman.html

Stanford University Library http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ts/tsdepts/cat/

TechWeb (Queen’s University Cataloging Guide—extensive and forward looking)
http://130.15.161.74/techserv/qcatalog.html

University of Oregon (comprehensive table of sites for catalogers)
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/techservices/html/