Assignment 1
For this
assignment, you will need access to OCLC WorldCat via
the Connexion cataloging client or browser and you
will need to have physical custody of a published monographic resource (a book,
a DVD, a CD, a map, etc., but not a serially published
resource such as a newspaper or magazine issue or journal issue). You can select the resource from your own
collection at home or check one out from any library. The item you select must have a catalog
record in OCLC WorldCat. It doesn’t matter how good
or bad, complete or incomplete, the OCLC bibliographic record is, and it
doesn’t matter whether the record is coded RDA, AACR2, or other, but there must
be some kind of catalog record for that exact edition/manifestation.
1. Search OCLC Worldcat via the Connexion
cataloging client or browser and identify a bibliographic record that
corresponds to the item in your custody (must correspond to that exact
edition/manifestation).
2. Print seven
(7) copies of that record and bring them to class on January 22.
3. Write an
essay (typed, double-spaced, please) about that record based on any previous
cataloging knowledge you have. You may refer to OCLC bibliographic formats and
standards (http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/),
RDA Toolkit, any of the optional or required texts for this class, and any
other cataloging reference sources you may wish to consult, but you are not
required to consult any particular rules or reference sources. Comment on
anything about the record that occurs to you, especially things you don’t
understand. Be prepared to discuss your
record in class on January 22, and please bring the physical item with you to
class also.
Please submit
the essay in class on January 22.
This is the
information you will need to access WorldCat via the Connexion browser and/or download OCLC Connexion
Client software:
Browser
version:
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/connexion/browser/
Authorization
100-034-559
Password: ceasar
Client version:
http://www.oclc.org/connexion/interface/client/default.htm
Authorization
100-034-559
Password: ceasar
OCLC 3-digit
symbol: HUI
OCLC 4-digit
symbol: HUIA