The document provides an overview of cataloging and discusses key concepts in cataloging like:
- Original vs copy cataloging
- Elements included in bibliographic description like author, title, publisher
- Standardization provided by ISBD and AACR2 rules
- Transition to new models like FRBR and RDA that aim to improve user tasks like finding, identifying, and selecting materials
Suddenly find yourself cataloging in a library? Or supervising? Or in library school and feeling lost? These Ten Tips will set you on the right path by giving you some tips and getting you in the right mindset.
The presentation discusses a definition of cataloging, ISBD, AACR2 and the future of cataloging, with acronyms like FRBR and RDA and what they might mean for school libraries.
presentation on "CATALOGUING" during Training workshop in library science for staff of muktangan school libraries organised by muktangan school teacher reference library, mumbai on 15th November 2010
Suddenly find yourself cataloging in a library? Or supervising? Or in library school and feeling lost? These Ten Tips will set you on the right path by giving you some tips and getting you in the right mindset.
The presentation discusses a definition of cataloging, ISBD, AACR2 and the future of cataloging, with acronyms like FRBR and RDA and what they might mean for school libraries.
presentation on "CATALOGUING" during Training workshop in library science for staff of muktangan school libraries organised by muktangan school teacher reference library, mumbai on 15th November 2010
Standards to facilitate information exchange has always been a subject of concern.
To provide a flexible exchange format that could be used for converting data from libraries and information services of all types, UNESCO developed the Common Communication Format (CCF). The main aim of this format was to produce a method of organising bibliographic descriptions which could be exchanged between institutions. This format was to act as a link between the databases produced in different internal formats of libraries.
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules AACR2 to acquire an international adaptability.Cataloging & Classification.AACR1 and AACR2.AACR1 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. North American text. Chicago: American Library Association, 1967.
AACR1, Chap. 12 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. North American text. Chapter 12. Chicago: American Library
Association,
1975.
AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1
This is an archive on a webinar delivered on January 12, 2012. Description: If you’re really new to cataloging, this session is for you. In this 90-minute online session, facilitated by NEKLS technology librarian Heather Braum, you will:
learn the basic principles behind cataloging,
discover why librarians catalog,
learn to read a basic MARC record,
see what a good MARC record looks like,
learn basic cataloging terminology,
and practice describing different materials.
Special thanks to Robin Fay for allowing me to use a couple of the ideas shared in this webinar and presentation. See her outstanding slides: http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/cataloging-basics-presentation.
Resource Description and Access (RDA), the cataloging standard developed to replace AACR2, will be released in June 2010, and a period of testing and evaluation of the new rules will begin. Join Emily Nimsakont, the NLC’s Cataloging Librarian, to learn the basics of RDA. Topics of discussion will include the goals and basic concepts of RDA, ways in which the new rules will differ from the current rules, and changes to MARC format related to RDA.
The first part of a day-long presentation made on November 3, 2009, covering various aspects of library cataloging, MARC records, FRBR, RDA, authority control, etc.
Marc formats : Facilitating sharing of Catalogue RecordsOtuoma Peter
This item was presented by Otuoma Sanya as a guest speaker to Information Science Students at Meru University of Science and Technology in November 2015.
This was a presentation/workshop done in 2003(ish) to help non technical services staff understand the information they see, esp. MARC and holdings information. Includes overview and tips by robin fay, georgiawebgurl@gmail.com
State Library of Pennsylvania Cataloging PALA 2009William Fee
The State Library of Pennsylvania Cataloging presentation. Scheduled for Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM in the Hilton, Harrisburg, PA. Also check State Library of Pennsylvania Cataloging PALA 2009 (Portrait Slides), which is the slides which belong in slide #s 72-73 of this presentation.
Standards to facilitate information exchange has always been a subject of concern.
To provide a flexible exchange format that could be used for converting data from libraries and information services of all types, UNESCO developed the Common Communication Format (CCF). The main aim of this format was to produce a method of organising bibliographic descriptions which could be exchanged between institutions. This format was to act as a link between the databases produced in different internal formats of libraries.
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules AACR2 to acquire an international adaptability.Cataloging & Classification.AACR1 and AACR2.AACR1 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. North American text. Chicago: American Library Association, 1967.
AACR1, Chap. 12 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. North American text. Chapter 12. Chicago: American Library
Association,
1975.
AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1
This is an archive on a webinar delivered on January 12, 2012. Description: If you’re really new to cataloging, this session is for you. In this 90-minute online session, facilitated by NEKLS technology librarian Heather Braum, you will:
learn the basic principles behind cataloging,
discover why librarians catalog,
learn to read a basic MARC record,
see what a good MARC record looks like,
learn basic cataloging terminology,
and practice describing different materials.
Special thanks to Robin Fay for allowing me to use a couple of the ideas shared in this webinar and presentation. See her outstanding slides: http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/cataloging-basics-presentation.
Resource Description and Access (RDA), the cataloging standard developed to replace AACR2, will be released in June 2010, and a period of testing and evaluation of the new rules will begin. Join Emily Nimsakont, the NLC’s Cataloging Librarian, to learn the basics of RDA. Topics of discussion will include the goals and basic concepts of RDA, ways in which the new rules will differ from the current rules, and changes to MARC format related to RDA.
The first part of a day-long presentation made on November 3, 2009, covering various aspects of library cataloging, MARC records, FRBR, RDA, authority control, etc.
Marc formats : Facilitating sharing of Catalogue RecordsOtuoma Peter
This item was presented by Otuoma Sanya as a guest speaker to Information Science Students at Meru University of Science and Technology in November 2015.
This was a presentation/workshop done in 2003(ish) to help non technical services staff understand the information they see, esp. MARC and holdings information. Includes overview and tips by robin fay, georgiawebgurl@gmail.com
State Library of Pennsylvania Cataloging PALA 2009William Fee
The State Library of Pennsylvania Cataloging presentation. Scheduled for Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 2:30 PM in the Hilton, Harrisburg, PA. Also check State Library of Pennsylvania Cataloging PALA 2009 (Portrait Slides), which is the slides which belong in slide #s 72-73 of this presentation.
The slide explains in detail the meaning of a catalog, forms of catalog, advantages and disadvantages of a catalog, classification, and types of classification schemes
Library Catalogues: from Traditional to Next-GenerationKC Tan
Presented at Lecture on 13 Sep 2007 for CS3255 Information Organization for 3rd Year IS students of the School of Computing, National University of Singapore
Looks at School Library Month and other related celebrations (Naional Library Month and Library Workers Day) and discusses advocacy and advocacy plans.
Looks at different inquiry process models, including Kuhlthau's Information Search Process and Guided Inquiry derived from it, Big 6 Skills, plus a number of others.
What are School Libraries and School Librarians?Johan Koren
Looks at definitions and roles of the school library and the school librarian and follows the development of standards and guidelines for school libraries from 1845-2009. Considers also the radical new definition set out by R. David Lankes.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
1. LIB 630 Classification and CatalogingSpring 2011 What is Cataloging The Big Question Are we FRBRizing? Or getting “FRADdled”?Or is it RDA?
2. 2 What is Cataloging? cataloging The process of creating entries for a catalog. In libraries, this usually includes bibliographic description, subject analysis, assignment of classificationnotation, and activities involved in physically preparing the item for the shelf, tasks usually performed under the supervision of a librarian trained as a cataloger. British spelling is cataloguing. See also: cataloging agency, Cataloging and Classification Section, cataloging-in-publication, centralized cataloging, cooperative cataloging, copy cataloging, descriptive cataloging, encoding level, and recataloging. Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science, ODLIS
3. 3 2 kinds of cataloging Original cataloging Copy cataloging
4. 4 What is original cataloging? original cataloging Preparation of a bibliographic record from scratch, without the aid of a pre-existing catalog record for the same edition, more time-consuming for the cataloger than copy cataloging. i.e.: Do-it-yourself cataloging!
5. 5 Copy cataloging? copy cataloging Adaptation of a pre-existing bibliographic record (usually found in OCLC, RLIN, NUC, or some other bibliographic database) to fit the characteristics of the item in hand, with modifications to correct obvious errors and minor adjustments to reflect locally accepted cataloging practice, as distinct from original cataloging (creating a completely new record from scratch). Synonymous with derived cataloging. i.e. Copy from others cataloging!
6. 6 But what are we actually doing when we catalog a book or whatever? We’re entering information about the book into the library’s catalog, so that when patrons are searching, they can find what they’re looking for, or, at least, something that will help them find an answer to their question.
7. 7 What is a card catalog? card catalog A list of the holdings of a library, printed, typed, or handwritten on catalog cards, each representing a single bibliographic item in the collection. Catalog cards are normally filed in a single alphabetical sequence (dictionary catalog), or in separate sections by author, title, and subject (divided catalog), in the long narrow drawers of a specially designed filing cabinet, usually constructed of wood (see this example). Most large- and medium-sized libraries in the United States have converted their card catalogs to machine-readable format. Also spelled card catalogue. Compare with online catalog.
8. 8 Online catalog? online catalog A librarycatalog consisting of a collection of bibliographic records in machine-readableformat, maintained on a dedicated computer that provides uninterrupted interactiveaccess via terminals or workstations in direct, continuous communication with the central computer. Although the software used in online catalogs is proprietary and not standardized, most online catalogs are searchable by author, title, subject heading, and keywords, and most public and academic libraries in the United States provide free public access, usually through a Web-based graphical user interface. Click here to log on to the online catalog of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Synonymous with OPAC. OPAC=online public access catalog
9. 9 Why make this distinction? There are those who call an online catalog the “online card catalog” or something similar. There are no cards on the computer, so that calling the online computer the “card” catalog is a misnomer “Card” refers only to the medium the catalog appears on PLEASE DON’T DO IT!
10. 10 Elements of cataloging From ODLIS definition: bibliographic description subject analysis assignment of classificationnotation (meaning the symbols used by the classification system) activities involved in physically preparing the item for the shelf
11. 11 What information do you put into the catalog, then? Basic bibliographic information (AKA bibliographic description): Author, title, publisher, date Edition Basic physical information (AKA physical description): Size, no. of pages, whether illustrated, if it has a bibliography and/or index Format (book, recording, electronic, etc.) Subject information (AKA subject analysis)
12. 12 What is bibliographic description? The official international definition: “. . . lists all the elements which are required to describe and identify all types of material which are likely to appear in library collections, . . .” ISBD(G): General International Standard Bibliographic Description 1992http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbdg0.htm
13. 13 Wait, there’s more, though! International Standard Bibliographic Description “. . . assigns an order to the elements of description, and specifies a system of punctuation for the description.” ISBD(G): General International Standard Bibliographic Description 1992http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/pubs/isbdg0.htm
14. 14 What is the prescribed order? 1: title and statement of responsibility area, with the contents of [4] 1.1 Title proper 1.2 General material designation 1.3 Parallel title 1.4 Other title information 1.5 Statements of responsibility 2: edition area 3: material or type of resource specific area (for example, the scale of a map or the numbering of a periodical) 4: publication, production, distribution, etc., area 5: physical description area (for example: number of pages in a book or number of CDs issued as a unit) 6: series area 7: notes area 8: resource identifier (e.g. ISBN, ISSN) and terms of availability area Structure of an ISBD record International Standard Bibliographic Description From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Bibliographic_Description
15. January 24, 2011 What is cataloging? 15 What is the punctuation? Spaces before and after the special punctuation (shown in red)! GMD=General material designation. New rules: [ ] not ( ) Slide from presentation Introduction to Description: History of Cataloging Codes
16. 16 An Example Author EditionAuthor Title Notice the spaces! Slide from presentation Introduction to Description: History of Cataloging Codes
17. 17 What do the punctuation symbols mean? [. . .] usually means that what’s included within the [ ] is General Material Designation, i.e. physical or electronic or other format : usually means that what comes first is the main title and what comes after is the subtitle (if there are spaces before and after) OR what comes first is the place of publication and what comes after is the publisher / means that what follows is the “statement of responsibility”, i.e. author, editor, etc
18. 18 What’s the advantage of having everything so standardized? You can recognize and read a bibliographic record, no matter what language or script it’s written in You can tell what’s being described, no matter what kind of material it is
20. 20 An example in German Title Subtitle GMD=General Material Designation(in this case: electronic resource) Statement of responsibility Publication area Series information Standard Number Physical Description
21. 21 An example in Bulgarian Author Title Subtitle (or possibly GMD?) Statement of responsibility Edition area Publication area Physical description Standard number Classification numberDewey Decimal
22. 22 ISBD in an online catalog / shows statement of responsibility, i.e. author, follows GeneralMaterial Designation Spaces before and after punctuation to separate sections
23. 23 What does AACR2 have to do with this? Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) A detailed set of standardized rules for cataloging various types of library materials . . . which is divided into two parts: rules for creating the bibliographic description of an item of any type and rules governing the choice and form of entry of headings (access points) in the catalog. Click here to read a brief history of AACR2up to the 2002 revision, courtesy of the JSC.
24. 24 Do we need to learn all these rules? If you plan on specializing as a cataloger, especially in a large research library, where you will be doing a lot of original cataloging, then you will need to learn the rules. As an LMS, most of your cataloging will be copy cataloging, so that a general awareness of the rules will be all you need—plus knowing where to look them up! In any case—the times, they are a-changin’!
25. Will there be an AACR3? Yes and no (actually, no)—FRBR is coming! 25
26. 26 What is FRBR? Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Either F-R-B-R or “Ferber” A report in 7 languages (soon to add simplified and traditional Chinese) A “conceptual model” entities attributes Relationships This comes from the Powerpoint presentation below:
27. 27 Goal of cataloging Cutter (19th century cataloging pioneer) To enable a person to find a book of which either the author the title the subject ...is known To show what the library has by a given author on a given subject in a given kind of literature To assist in the choice of a book as to its edition (bibliographically) as to its character (literary or topical) FRBR To enable a person to: Find Identify Select Obtain Adapted from FRBR; or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the model
28. Do we need FRBR? January 24, 2011 What is cataloging? 28
29. There’s also FRAD FRAD? Functional Requirements for Authority Data Authority data? This is part of what librarians call “authority control” Authority control enables librarians to create standardized catalog entries to avoid confusion e.g. to differentiate between authors or artists who have the same or similar names John Willams the composer and conductor vs. John Williams the classical guitarist 29
30. If you’re not “frbred” or “fraddled” enough: RDA is coming! RDA: Resource Description & Access Designed for the digital world and an expanding universe of metadata users, RDA: Resource Description and Access is the new, unified cataloging standard—an evolution of the cataloging principles from AACR2, with rules carried over or adapted to the RDA model. Introduction, RDA Toolkit 30
31. RDA builds on FRBR & FRAD FRBR and FRAD are conceptual models RDA puts them into practice 31
32. Does a humble school librarian have to worry about all this gobbledygook? 32