Subscribe to RSS Feed Cataloging paid e-journals and databases
For section wide guideline only. Step 1. Run monthly Boolean for un-cataloged e-journals and databases established at ACQ (previously S/ER). The Boolean search criteria is as follows Step 2. Cataloging
How to use the Connexion Browser
LOCATE THE CONNEXION BROWSER Log in on the OCLC Connexion Browser logon site Optionally, you can Google “OCLC Connexion” Once you are on OCLC Connexion homepage On the left panel, click on Logon to Connexion – this will open the Connexion Browser logon window. PERFORM A SEARCH Click on the Search button under Cataloging. SEARCH STRATEGIES [...]
Re-accessing 1000 Chinese historical books
Status: Complete March 23, 2012 THE PROJECT As part of an on-going short bib correction project at Cataloging Department, we discovered some non-Roman short bibs that require special language skills and strategic handling process. Among these is a large multi-volume collection titled Jin dai Zhongguo shi liao cong kan (近代中國史料叢刊 or Series of Modern Chinese [...]
Documentation: e-serial titles ordered as e-books
E-book titles selected by Subject specialists or Collection managers (from Gobi, for example), which have order records set up by the E-serial order unit at Acquisition, should be passed to Cataloging/e-book cataloger (Jim) to catalog. If it is discovered that the title is in fact an electronic serial, then it can be given to Cataloging/e-resources [...]
Cataloging free e-resources
Updated 04/25/2012 BACKGROUND This guideline covers online journals, web sites and databases which have free access or are open resources, requested by collection managers and subject specialists. Requests are placed on an online form (login required). A request email will be generated and sent to us (Sherab). WORKFLOWS IN SUMMARY Requests initiated via ILL will [...]
Keeping up serial backfiles cataloging
Revised by Juleah Swanson BACKGROUND INFORMATION OSUL has invested in the purchase of a number of electronic journal (e-journal) backfiles (also known as archive collections). These purchases represent thousands of titles, many of which are new, and a significant increase in access to scholarly information for our patrons. Four of the publishers OSUL has purchased [...]
Serials Solutions loading
I. Serials Solutions: Introduction and Workflow Serials Solutions maintains an A-Z list of all online journals we subscribe. It also provides bib records which we purchase for those journal title we subscribe (? including everything). Every month we get an email from Serials Solution informing us that a three-set files are made available for us. [...]
MARC record for serials
The Fixed Field values Type — To differentiate specific types of material. Use “a” (language materials) BLvl — Use “s” (Serial) S/L — “Successive” or “later entry”. Default is “0″; if see “1″ – do NOT use it. Desc — Cataloging standard. Use “a” (AACR) or “i” (RDA). ELvl Form — Form of item. If [...]
Common differences between monos and serials
/ Composed and edited by MARILYN MILLER and CHRISTINA MOORE Mono bibs usually reflect either a single piece (or a few interrelated pieces); serial bibs reflect a whole run of pieces published over time. Serial bib records change as the publication develops over time. Therefore, serial bibs are recataloged more often than monograph bibs. Because [...]
RDA Webinars: recordings, PowerPoints and evaluation
Here are recordings of RDA Webinars we have attended and evaluation we are invited to participate. To watch the recordings, click on the following links. Changes from AACR2 to RDA Part 1 (recording) Changes from AACR2 to RDA Part 2 (recording) Ask-the-experts Webinar (recording) RDA and Serials Catalogers: Will Our Work Really Change? (recording) Linked [...]