Subscribe to RSS Feed MARC in Practice (4): Title Proper and Varying Form of Title
The following are guidelines for title related issues in cataloging, especially for treatments of Sub title Portion of title proper requires attention Parallel title Added title page title Complicated multi lingual title and statement of responsibilities Uniform title Analytical title A simple title like “Gone with the wind” (by Margaret Mitchell) requires no special treatment, [...]
Instruction on Monthly Cataloging Statistics
Purpose Responsibility How to use 1. Purpose This document explains how to report your cataloging performance on monthly statistic. As a routine cataloging procedure, you enter your cataloger’s code (xxn for example) in the 910 field each time you export a new bib record to OSCAR. The system (Millennium/OSCAR) takes your cataloger’s code for statistic [...]
MARC in Practice (3): Call Number and Subject Heading Fields
==================== OUTLINE I. Call number fields Difference between 050 and 090 fields Sub-fields and punctuation issues II. Subject Heading fields Types of Subject Headings LC Subject Headings and “quasi-LC Subject Headings” Subfields III. Correlation ==================== I. Call number fields At OSUL, we assign call numbers according to the Library of Congress Call Number (LCC) system [...]
MARC in Practice (2): Sub-fields and Punctuations
This post is still being developed! xxxx The following is an example of the 245 field. Field no. Indicators Sub-fields 245 1 0 [$a] Fast food nation : $b the dark side of all-American meal / $c Eric Schlosser The $ mark is called delimitor [on Connexion, it is presented by a double dagger; and [...]