Creation of bibliographic records which describe publications and library holdings.
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Using holdings data to understand content of library collections in the past
There are a couple pieces to this question. Is it standard practice to capture in MARC data about when a library acquired an item in its collections. My sense is that it's not, except maybe for ...
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How to deal with retracted articles
How do research libraries deal with retracted articles?
Are they actually considered to be unpublished, would they disappear from the catalog?
Is there a clear indication on the catalogs about its ...
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Where to find previous titles of serials?
Part of the challenge of cataloguing serials is that these publications change their titles not infrequently (in both major and minor ways). I know that MARC has fields for varying forms of titles and ...
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What is “[Fic]”, “[E]” or “[B]” in the Dewey Decimal Classification?
Via the OpenLibrary I came across records with [Fic], [E] or [B] (or B) in the Dewey Decimal Classification field, whereas valid DDCs only have digits, "." and "/", as far as I know.
The records were ...
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Does MODS provide a way of recording missing information?
In many MODS records harvested from several sources, I see <mods:publisher>s.n.</mods:publisher> or something similar (worst I have seen: 000NOPUBLISHER000) to indicate the publisher is ...
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In the physical description of a book, what are facsims.?
I have tried to search for the definition of this book part, similar to illus., ports., etc., but search engines keep thinking that I want information on the political system 'fascism'. What exactly ...
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How to build a Dewey number for a Hanukkah/Christmas interfaith item?
I am cataloguing an item called "A Christmas Hanukkah Program" by Leon Paul (WorldCat record here) and am planning to assign: 296.435 with all of our Hanukkah materials.
I have searched for similar ...
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What types of publication dates exist?
I want to generate a statistic of number of publications by year from a set of bibliographic records (internal PICA+ format, but I could convert for instance to MARC2 or MODS). Surprisingly several ...
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What is the most effective way of sorting large, unsorted electronic archive collections to enable cataloguing?
We have a number of large, unsorted electronic archive collections that have very little descriptive metadata. We have very little knowledge about the content of the collections and there is no ...
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How to detect invalid permutations of MARC fields, subfield, and indicator
I'm working on a web app that allows users to run checks on each MARC record in a MARC batch file, so they can quickly assess the quality of those records. The idea is when batches of records are ...
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How to catalogue zines?
Books and periodicals, etc. are relatively easily catalogued in an academic setting. What about alternative materials, such as zines? Is there an easy way to catalogue those sorts of materials?
Note: ...
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What regular expression would match Library of Congress call numbers?
I'm looking for something that can help with my awful reporting interface.
Has anyone created a macro or a program that will strip out internal spaces, except for the space before the date and ...
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Uses for International Standard Name Identifiers?
ISO published ISO 27729 earlier this year, see http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=44292
The standard describes the ISNI - International Standard Name ...
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What are the available options for advanced (i.e., multi-field) searches in Horizon?
What are the available options for advanced (i.e., multi-field) searches in Horizon? How can I construct one?
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What are the most commonly used cataloging systems in middle school libraries?
I work in a decent sized middle school library (~10,000 books, I would guesstimate) that's looking for a cataloging system. I've heard Unison and Alexandria mentioned, and would be curious to see what ...
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Are there middle school library management systems with a self check-out feature?
I volunteer a few hours weekly a middle school library that doesn't have a librarian or cataloging system. "Checking out" books consists of leaving me notes.
The school is looking to get a ...
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How can I find MARC records for video games?
We are starting a circulating video game collection. I am trying to help our cataloging person by researching how to find records in OCLC or from a different source.
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How does the Rule of Three work?
I have seen so many contradictory explanations of the Rule of Three that I'm ready to tear out my hair. For each of the faux-authorship cases below, what goes in a 1xx field, what in a 7xx, and what ...
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What is the purpose of the 490 and 8xx
What is the purpose of the 490 tag if you create an 8xx? Can you just enter an 8xx and NOT enter a 490?
(Assuming your ILS indexes both)
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What are good, free or cheap cataloging systems for personal or small-library use?
Because the budget and staff of either situation would be minimal, the major needs of such a system would be as follows:
Low price, preferably free.
Can be installed with a basic level of technical ...
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What MARC tags are appropriate for linking bibliographic records of an adaptation (e.g. film) to its source?
My cataloging class (back in the day) focused mainly on describing individual items rather than the relationships among them. I'm curious about the state of the art when it comes to related items. Let ...
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The change in cataloging rules from AACR2 to RDA
What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of changing cataloging rules from AACR2 to RDA? Additionally, how is this going to affect the millions of MARC records currently in AACR2 rules? When is the ...
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What are some alternates to the Dewey Decimal System?
What are some cataloging / book locating systems that make it easy to find books other than the Dewey Decimal System?
