WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY CATALOGING MANUAL

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Accompanying Material

Accompanying material that is separate from the main item

 

Authority Control

Authority cross-references and scope notes to send to LTI to add to authority records

Authority duplicate detection fields in existing records that merge with overlaying record

Authority record structure

Authority record structure |w control information

Authority records overview

Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Music Catalogers: An Annotated List of Useful Resources

Connexion authority file search results

Connexion authority file searching

LTI authority control profile

LTI authority processing

LTI replace base bib file

 

Backup of locally-modified Voyager and other folders/files

Macro Express macros: restoring lost macros or adding new macros

Updating or restoring custom files

 

Bibliographic Records (General)

Bib records overview

Bound withs

Cataloger's Desktop

Cataloging preferences

Equivalent terms itemtype GMD 300 field and call number

Keyboard equivalents in Voyager cataloging

Macro Express macros for cataloging

Multiple volumes but different editions

Non-English copy cataloging

Tag table editing

Templates

Viewing multiple records on one screen

Withdrawals and replacements

WMA templates overview

 

Bibliographic Records (Specific)

090 vs 050 for local call number

260 field repeatable

655 form/genre

9xx fields

951 local processing notes

Accession date and record number history

Art exhibitions

Bibliographic duplicate detection fields in existing records that merge with overlaying record

Connexion batch delete holdings by OCLC number

Connexion editing and replacing records in OCLC

Connexion editing and replacing records in OCLC table (p. 4)

Connexion keyboard template

Connexion macros overview.doc

Connexion reporting records for deletion

Connexion settings and basics

Copy cataloging checklist for monographs

Corporate bodies including conferences

Diacritics and other special characters

Encoding level chart

End-of-year publication dates

Find original cataloging in Voyager to upload to OCLC

ISBNs

Language tools online

Local notes in bib records

Non-LC topical subject headings (650)

OCLC highlights from Technical Bulletins recently incorporated into the online Bibliographic Formats and Standards

Order record relinking (Change Bib Record) -- see MFHDs

Original cataloging

Original cataloging using OCLC copy as a basis

Preservation facsimile cataloging

Proofs, advance copies, etc.

Primary material format field

Romanization and non-roman scripts

Title added entries

Unicode characters not recognized by Voyager

Uploading GLSP theses from Voyager to OCLC

Uploading original cataloging from Voyager to OCLC

 

Cataloging Department/General

Cataloging Department responsibilities

Cataloging statistics how to do the VgerSelect/Access monthly reports

Cataloging statistics notebook table of contents FY10

Cataloging statistics SQL coding to run SPG Bib Record Total Not Suppressed With Items

Cataloging statistics SQL coding to run SPG Item Count by Itemtype

Cataloging statistics SQL coding to run SPG Item Count by Itemtype and Location

Cataloging statistics SQL coding to run SPG Item Count by Itemtype and Create Date

Cataloging statistics SQL coding to run SPG Item Count by Itemtype, Create Date, and Location

Cataloging statistics SQL coding to run SPG Item Status Withdrawn by Date and Itemtype

Cataloging statistics SQL coding to run SPG Item Status Withdrawn by Date, Itemtype, and Location

Cataloging statistics VgerSelect report

Cataloging statistics VgerSelect report for provisionals

Count your own statistics

Ordering supplies discounts

Percentage of time spent on cataloging tasks

Percentage of time spent on cataloging tasks How to determine

Student employment application

Student time entry

VgerLocChanger manual by Gary Strawn

VgerSelect manual by Gary Strawn

 

Gary Strawn's source page:  http://www.library.northwestern.edu/public/

 

Cataloging Links

ALA-GODORT Toolbox for Processing and Cataloging Federal Government Documents: http://www2.lib.udel.edu/godort/cataloging/toolbox.htm

ALA-LC romanization tables:  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html

Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Music Catalogers http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/authtools.html

AUTOCAT archives:  http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/autocat.html

Gabriel:  http://www.ddb.de/gabriel/en/countries.html

GAteway and BRIdge to Europe's national Libraries.  Gabriel is the World Wide Web server for Europe's National Libraries represented in the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL).

Google language tools (rough translation):  http://www.google.com/language_tools

GSAFD Genre Terms (presented by OCLC):  http://alcme.oclc.org/gsafd/OAIHandler?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=z39_19

Internet Movie Database:  http://www.imdb.com/

ISBN check:  http://www.hahnlibrary.net/libraries/isbncalc.htm

LC:  http://www.loc.gov/

LC Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, Policy and Standards Division (formerly CPSO):  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/queries.html ; email: policy@loc.gov

LC Authorities search page: http://authorities.loc.gov/

LC Cataloger's Desktop:  http://desktop.loc.gov/

LC Cataloging Support Office:  http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/

LC Chinese romanization guidelines (Pinyin):  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pinyin/romcover.html

LC ClassWeb:  http://classificationweb.net/Auto/

LC form to submit changes to cataloging/authority records:  http://www.loc.gov/help/contact-libarch-report.html

LC free pdf versions of selected CDS publications:  http://www.loc.gov/cds/freepdf.html

LC MARC standards intro page:  http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/

LC subject headings |v free-floating subdivisions (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries:  http://www.lib.usm.edu/~techserv/cat/tools/formsubv.htm

LTI website: http://www.authoritycontrol.com/ACTOC.html

MARC21 Concise Format for Authority Data:  http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html

MARC21 Concise Format for Bibliographic Data:  http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/

MARC21 Concise Format for Holdings Data:  http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdhome.html

OCLC intro page:  http://www.oclc.org/

OCLC Authorities User Manual:  http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/authorities/userguide/default.htm

OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards:  http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/

OCLC WorldCat record change request:  https://www3.oclc.org/app/bibchg/

OPACs:  WU: http://ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7003

 CC:  http://ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7001

 TC: http://ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7002

Trinity College Technical Services Procedures Manual:  http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/libtech/procedures/index.htm

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

Voyager Support Web:  http://support.endinfosys.com/

Yale University cataloging & link to Orbis2 Policies and Procedureshttp://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/

Yale University Music Cataloging at Yale http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/musicat.htm

 

Database Cleanup/Projects

Access reports

Bib ID's how to get them from a screen of WebVoyager search results

Filing rules for the Olin card catalog

Flagging on-loan items for return to Cataloging

Location Changer options

Misspellings cleanup

Recon projects (formerly Database Enhancement projects)

Recon when to withdraw a brittle book

VgerLocChanger manual by Gary Strawn

Videos recataloging project

Voyager cleanup projects

 

Electronic Media (Internet; see also Theses: Electronic under Theses)

Criteria for cataloging free web resources

Electronic books

Electronic journals 856 x codes for source (no longer kept up by Cataloging)

Electronic journals merging the electronic bib record Example

Electronic journals merging the electronic bib record onto the print record

Electronic journals and databases online only Example

Electronic journals and databases online only Summary

Electronic journals and databases online only

Series needing URLs

Streaming media - also online at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/streamingmedia.html

URLs in bib records

 

Forms/Labels//Signs/Slips (except TechPro)

Label Requires PAL compatible equipment for playback

Label Videocassette box 1/3 sleeve

Sign Art/Sci. pickup (2 signs)

Sign Box for book sale

Sign Cat. Ref.

Sign Cataloging Dept. staff

Sign Cataloging Review green slip go on this shelf

Sign Circulation pickup

Sign CTW and pink rush slips only (baskets)

Sign Do not barcode

Sign Exceptions

Sign Olin rushes for Marking

Sign PromptCat incoming from Acq

Sign PromptCat shelfready charge to Olin New Book Shelf

Sign Students please do not sign for any delivered packages

Sign These classifications do not go into Olin

Sign UPS RPS etc pickup

Slip Accomp mat

Slip Acq

Slip Marking problems for Cataloging

Slip Music thesis

Slip New Loc

Slip Science thesis

Statform

Statform suppl (not used at this time)

 

Item Records

Barcoding

Barcoding examples

Barcoding jewel cases for discs/disks

Circulation policies overview (item record largely controls circ)

Item records overview

Itemtypes

Pick and scan

Unlinked item records

Volume captions (common)

Volume captions/variable data on spine labels

 

Materials Processing/Marking (MPM)

Date-due slips

Marking music compact discs

New book shelf

Paperbacks and book jackets

Stamping volumes with the property stamp

VgerSpin configuration (spine labels)

VgerSpin manual by Gary Strawn

Gary Strawn's source page:  http://www.library.northwestern.edu/public/SpineLabels/

Queen's University Library guidelines:  http://130.15.161.74/techserv/cat/Sect09/vgerspin.html

 

MFHDs/Call Numbers

Bibliographies classification

Call number shelflisting Cutter numbers, dates, etc.

Classifications JZ (International relations) and KZ (Law of nations)

Compact shelving

Cutter call numbers

LC ClassWeb

LC Filing Rules

Location code suffixes for special formats and format-related locations

Location of library materials by LC classification

Locations

Locations with associated itemtypes

Locations for nonbook media

MFHDs 8xx fields

MFHDs overview

Order on wrong MFHD (location "owm")

Order record relinking (Change Bib Record)

Oversize table

SuDocs call numbers

 

Nonbook Media

CD, CD-ROM, and enhanced CD

Dance Dept videos form (no longer used)

DVD, DVD-ROM, and enhanced DVD

DVD Guide to Cataloging (OLAC)

DVD PN1997 cutters (not collections)

DVD PN1997 table of cutters by Dale Lee 2006-01-30

Films searching for films in the catalog

Microforms 007

Videorecordings cataloging

 

Outsourcing (except Authority Control)

Bib Notification process

EBS extract parameters to add holding symbol to OCLC

OCLC Cataloging Partners (PromptCat) workflow

OCLC Contract Cataloging (TechPro) address labels

OCLC Contract Cataloging (TechPro) cost estimator

OCLC Contract Cataloging (TechPro) file handling

OCLC Contract Cataloging (TechPro) languages

OCLC Contract Cataloging (TechPro) receiving instructions

OCLC Contract Cataloging (TechPro) shipping and receiving instructions: Theses

OCLC Contract Cataloging (TechPro) shipping and receiving instructions: Video box label

OCLC Contract Cataloging (TechPro) shipping instructions

Receiving PromptCat (no longer used)

Slip TechPro instructions

YBP L&C TS price list  (latest)

YBP TS price list (latest)

YBP technical services specification (latest)

 

Searching

Indexes - Composite Left-Anchored

Indexes - Keyword

Indexes - Left-Anchored

Redirecting searches from the Voyager client to the web

Seach limits Format/type and other non-location limits

Search limits Location limit groups

Seaching cross-references in Caleb

Searching in keyword using a specific field type or tag       

Searching, indexing, results sorting       

 

Serials and Continuing Resources

AACR2 revised chapter 12 Continuing resources

Call number/location changes for currently-received periodicals

Copy cataloging checklist for serials

New and withdrawn serials report (monthly)

Serial split-title holdings in the same physical unit

Serials information in Voyager Acquisitions

Serials processing new serials

Science library serials that are not journals

Single issues of serials cataloged as monographs

Supplements and special issues to serials

 

Series

Main series/subseries and multiple series

Monographic series and sets

Series 490 field (440 obsolete)

Series cataloging and classifying chart--ANNOTATED

Series cataloging and classifying chart--ORIGINAL

Series chart cleanup project

Series numbering and edition statements abbreviations

Series/sets cataloged separately with both comprehensive title and part title on the title page

Series terms

Subseries that are cataloged separately from but classified together with the main series

Temporary records for new volumes of monographic series and sets

 

System

System problems reporting hierarchy

 

Special Collections

Copy-specific notes in rare book cataloging (SC&A Manual)

How to handle rare books (SC&A Manual)

 

Theses (see also TechPro Shipping and Receiving Instructions: Theses;

and also Locations for Nonbook Media)

Theses: Electronic

Theses in Science Library departments

Theses microfilm example

Theses subject analysis hard sciences (article)