making your catalog work for your community: how to develop local cataloging standards
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Making Your Catalog Work
for Your Community:
How to Develop Local Cataloging
Standards
Emily Dust NimsakontHead of Cataloging & Resource Management
Schmid Law Library, UNL College of Law
SELS Training ExtravaganzaMay 13, 2016
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Why do we need standards?
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What are the national cataloging standards?
• Descriptive Cataloging– Resource Description and Access (RDA)
• Classification– Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)– Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
• Subject Headings– Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)– Sears Subject Headings
Creating Local Standards
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Classification
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Melvil Dewey ≠ God
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≠
Explore other options
BISAChttps://www.bisg.org/bisac/complete-bisac-subject-headings-2015-edition
Metishttps://sites.google.com/site/metisinnovations/
Create Your Own Classification
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Subject Headings
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Cross References
Cross References
Local Headings
69X fields 65X fields with $2 localhttps://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/6xx.html
Be aware of how your catalog systems displays and searches these fields
Local Headings
• Keep a vocabulary list• Create authority records (if possible in your
system)
Variant Titles (The 246 field is
your friend!)
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Variant Titles245 10 $a Nebraskaspeak : $b how to talk like a
true Nebraskan (title on title page)
246 14 $a Your guide to Nebraskaspeak (cover title)
Variant Titles
245 12 $a A treatise on the law of property in intellectual productions in Great Britain and the United States : $b embracing copyright in works of literature and art, and playright in dramatic and musical compositions (title on title page)
246 18 $a Drone on copyright (spine title)
Variant Titles245 14 $a The Chiron dictionary of Greek &
Roman mythology : $b gods and goddesses, heroes, places, and events of antiquity (title on title page)
246 3_ $a Chiron dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology (spelling out symbol)
Variant Titles245 10 $a Dinosaurs before dark (title on title
page)
246 3_ $a Jack and Annie (what all your patrons ask for)
Series Information
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Series Information
• 490 field – series title as it appears on the piece
• 830 field – authorized form of the series title
• 830 field can be used to your benefit
Remember: There are no cataloging police!
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1. Be consistent.
2. Document, document, document!
Rules to Live By
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Questions, discussion, etc.
Emily Dust NimsakontHead of Cataloging & Resource Management
Schmid Law Library, UNL College of [email protected]