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Types of free cataloging tools we’ll cover:

Dewey Decimal Classification

Converters & Calculators

MARC Bibliographic

Authority Records

Cataloging Maintenance Center

Resource Description & Access

Cheat Sheets & Best Practices

Cataloging Tools Potpourri!

Online Professional Development

Email Discussion Lists

Your Favorite Cataloging Tools!

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Dewey Decimal Classification

025.431: The Dewey Blog: http://ddc.typepad.com/ OCLC Classify: http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ OCLC DeweyBrowser:

http://deweybrowser.oclc.org/ddcbrowser2/ Dewey Resources for Public and School Libraries:

http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/public.htm Mapping Library of Congress Classification to Dewey:

http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/html/help/en/ask/ask_map_lcctoddc.html

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Converters & Calculators ISBN Check Digit Calculator & Converter:

http://www.hahnlibrary.net/libraries/isbncalc.html

Cataloging Calculator:

http://calculate.alptown.com/ Amazon to MARC Converter:

http://chopac.org/cgi-bin/tools/az2marc.pl

IMDb to MARC Converter: http://amazon.libcat.org/cgi-bin/imdb2marc.pl

Web2MARC Generation Tool:

http://dl2sl.org/web2marc

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MARC Bibliographic Understanding MARC Bibliographic Tutorial (Library of Congress):

http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/ MARC 21 Bibliographic Tutorial (University of Southern

Mississippi): http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/techserv/marc21_tutorial_ie/marcintroIE.htm

Library of Congress MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data:

http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards:

http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/default.htm

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More MARC Bibliographic

Follett Software Company’s Tag of the Month: http://www.follettsoftware.com/tagofthemonth.cfm

Library of Congress “RDA in MARC” Summary: http://www.loc.gov/marc/RDAinMARC-7-12.html

MarcEdit: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php

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Authority Records

Understanding MARC Authority Records Tutorial (Library of Congress): http://www.loc.gov/marc/uma/index.html

MARC Authority Tutorial (University of Southern Mississippi): http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/techserv/auth_tutorial/auth01.htm

Library of Congress MARC 21 Format for Authority Data: http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/

OCLC Authority Format and Indexes: http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/authorities/authformat/default.htm

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More Authority Records

Library of Congress “RDA in MARC” Summary: http://www.loc.gov/marc/RDAinMARC-7-12.html

Library of Congress Authorities: http://authorities.loc.gov/

Library of Congress Authorities Thing by LibraryThing:

http://www.librarything.com/LCAT/ Virtual International Authority File (VIAF):

http://viaf.org/

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Cataloging Maintenance Center

“The mission of the Illinois Cataloging Maintenance Center (CMC) is to provide cataloging support in the following areas: Database cleanup Original or copy cataloging of eligible collections (providing

services free of charge through FY2013) Cataloging training Assistance with general cataloging questions, including

questions on RDA (Resource Description and Access)”

CMC Web Page: http://www.illinoisheartland.org/?q=node/18 CMC Locations:

Illinois Heartland Library System Edwardsville Office Illinois Heartland Library System Champaign Office

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Resource Description and Access Training

ALCTS RDA Series Webinars YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AAFB573158DC4A1&feature=plcp

RDA for Administrators: Managing the Transition in Your Library

FRBR as a Foundation for RDA

Many more!

Library of Congress Information and Resources in Preparation for RDA: http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/

Example records

Webcasts

Much more!

Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA. Presentations on RDA and FRBR: http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdapresentations.html

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http://www.rdatoolkit.org/presentertools

More RDA Training Adam Schiff’s presentations “Changes from AACR2 to RDA”:

http://faculty.washington.edu/aschiff/

The MARC of Quality (TMQ):

Rudimentary RDA. Part 1, What RDA Is, When It Will Happen, and Why We Need It: http://www.marcofquality.com/trn/trnindex.html

(From the training index, go to Series C: RDA.)

RDA in Many Metadata Formats (RIMFF). “TMQ’s free visualization tool for RDA metadata—learn how to think in RDA!” : http://www.marcofquality.com/soft/softindex.html

(From the software index, go to the RIMFF section.)

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RDA Training for Illinois Libraries

Coming Soon to WebJunction Illinois! www.webjunction.org/partners/illinois.html

A FRBR tutorial created by Joan Wang of the Cataloging Maintenance Center.

The CMC plans to create an RDA tutorial for WebJunction.

For RAILS member libraries:

“Introducing RDA” ALA Editions Webinar

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 (1:30 PM - 3:00 PM)

RAILS Service Center viewing locations:

Burr Ridge, Geneva, East Peoria, and Shorewood

Register at http://www.librarylearning.info/events/?eventID=14225.

Any future RDA training opportunities for Illinois libraries will be posted on the Library Learning calendar at http://www.librarylearning.info/.

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RDA Toolkit Resources

Using the RDA Toolkit (Library of Congress documentation): http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/pdf/ToolkitCourse.pdf RDA Toolkit : http://www.rdatoolkit.org

Toolkit menu bookmark Toolkit free trial offer Toolkit blog Toolkit development blog Example RDA records Teaching and training resources Toolkit Essentials webinars Virtual Users Group meetings

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http://www.rdatoolkit.org/presentertools

More RDA Toolkit Resources

RDA Toolkit Tools tab: http://access.rdatoolkit.org/

October 9, 2012 Toolkit release: Freely available RDA to MARC

bibliographic and authority mappings

Example RDA records -- include RDA element and MARC

encoding displays

RDA Toolkit Resources tab: http://access.rdatoolkit.org/

Library of Congress Policy Statements (LCPS) freely available

October 9, 2012 Toolkit release: LCPS become Library of

Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging Policy

Statements (LC-PCC PSs)

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Cataloging Cheat Sheets & Best Practices

Special Libraries Cataloguing (SLC) Cataloging Cheat Sheets:

special-cataloguing.com/cheats

The Streaming Guide to Cataloging Remote Access Multimedia:

A How-to Virtual Manual for Catalogers: http://www.newfoundpress.utk.edu/pubs/veve/streaming-guides.html

Follett Software Company’s Ask Ms. MARC: http://www.follettsoftware.com/askmsmarc.cfm

Vanderbilt University Library’s Tools for Serials Catalogers: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/ercelawn/serials.html

Cataloging Practices Wiki: https://catalogingpractices.wikispaces.com/

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Cataloging Tools Potpourri!

Cataloger’s Toolbox: http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/ For OCLC member libraries:

OCLC Glossary: http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/glossary/oclc/glossary.htm

OCLC Technical Bulletins: http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/technicalbulletins/

OCLC System Alerts: http://www.oclc.org/support/systemalerts/

Librarian’s Toolbox: http://www.oclc.org/us/en/toolbox/default.htm

Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science:

http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_A.aspx

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More Cataloging Tools Potpourri!

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Language Resource: http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/rt/ref/cjklang

isbn.nu -- “Search for books and compare prices” : http://isbn.nu/

Colorado Library Consortium and Douglas County Libraries. E-Discover the Classics: Free E-Books for Libraries: http://www.clicweb.org/e-discover-home

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Online Professional Development

ALCTS Continuing Education YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/alctsce

Library of Congress Catalogers Learning Workshop: http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/

Library of Congress YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/libraryofcongress Cataloging Matters Podcasts:

http://blog.jweinheimer.net/p/cataloging-matters-podcasts.html

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More Online Professional Development

Library Webinars Blog: http://neflin2.blogspot.com/

NCompass Live Archived Sessions: http://nlc.nebraska.gov/NCompassLive/NCArchivelist.asp

OCLC Training Portal: http://training.oclc.org/1

TMQ Training: http://www.marcofquality.com/trn/trnindex.html

WebJunction Illinois: www.webjunction.org/partners/illinois.html

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Email Discussion Lists AUTO-CAT:

https://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=AUTOCAT

ALCTS e-forums: http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/e-forum

Upcoming ALCTS e-forum topics:

Role of the Professional in Technical Services Departments (October 16)

Federal Depository System (November 13)

Conservation and Repair (December 11)

Library as Place (January 2013)

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More Email Discussion Lists

BIBFRAME: http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/bibframe.html

EDUCAT: http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/clw-educat.html

MARCEDIT-L: http://metis3.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MARCEDIT-L

NGC4LIB: http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=NGC4LIB&H=LISTSERV.ND.EDU

OCLC-CAT: https://www3.oclc.org/app/listserv/

OLAC-L: http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/?q=node/53

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Even More Email Discussion Lists

RADCAT: http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/radcat.html

RDA-L: http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=RDA-

L&H=LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA

MTX-RDA (Minitex’s RDA email discussion list): http://lists.minitex.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mtx-rda

SERIALST:

http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=SERIALST&H=LIST.UVM.EDU

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Email Discussion Lists for Illinois Libraries

For Illinois Heartland Library System members:

Subscribe to the Exchange List to “get messages about book giveaways, job postings, and questions from your fellow librarians around IHLS.” http://illinoisheartland.org/?q=content/page/ihls-listservs

For Reaching Across Illinois Library System members:

Subscribe to RAILS Community Forums to participate in discussions about e-books, AV, technical services, and more! http://railslibraries.info/community

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What’s in your cataloging toolbox?

National Library of Medicine Cataloging Resources: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/mainpge.html

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