Online Cataloging Resources

General resources

Cataloging Acronyms and Idioms

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donnab/cat_acronyms_idioms.html

ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science (Warning: This is a huge file.)

http://lu.com/odlis/

Web-based Connexion (software to use for inputting cataloging records)

http://connexion.oclc.org

Descriptive Cataloging

RDA Toolkit

http://www.rdatoolkit.org/

MARC Bibliographic

http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhome.html

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. 1996. Names of persons : national usages for entry in catalogues. Munchen : K.G. Saur.

http://ifla.org/files/assets/cataloguing/pubs/names-of-persons_1996.pdf

RDA refers users to this document to determine how to represent the name of a person with what appears to be a compound surname if the preference of the person is not known.

9.2.2.10.2 "The preference of the person is sometimes unknown. Also, established usage sometimes cannot be determined in reference sources in the person's language or from the person's country of residence or activity. When this occurs, follow the usage for the person's country of residence as specified in Names of Persons: National Usages for Entry in Catalogues."

ALA-LC Romanization Tables

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html

This web page contains "links to the scanned text of the ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association. Most are from the 1997 print edition." Some are revised versions.

PCC [Program for Cooperative Cataloging] Guidelines for the Application of Relationship Designators in Bibliographic Records

http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/rda/PCC%20RDA%20guidelines/Relat-Desig-Guidelines.docx

"The Guidelines are meant to serve as a stand-alone document giving general guidance for catalogers beginning to apply relationship designators in their cataloging. ... The Guidelines do not apply to authority records." Agreed to May 2, 2013.

Term and Code List for RDA Content Types

This list contains Resource Description and Access (RDA) terms and corresponding three-character lower case alphabetic codes for RDA Content types. These types can be recorded in MARC Bibliographic and Authority records in textual form and/or in the three-character coded form in MARC field 336 (Content Type).

http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdacontent.html

Term and Code List for RDA Media Types

This list contains Resource Description and Access (RDA) terms and corresponding one-character lower case alphabetic codes for RDA Media types. These types can be recorded in MARC Bibliographic and Holdings records in textual form and/or in the one-character coded form in MARC field 337 (Media Type).

http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdamedia.html

Term and Code List for RDA Carrier Types

This list contains Resource Description and Access (RDA) terms and corresponding two-character lower case alphabetic codes for RDA Carrier types. These types can be recorded in MARC Bibliographic and Holdings records in textual form and/or in the two-character coded form in MARC field 338 (Carrier Type).

http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdacarrier.html

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Library of Congress Authority Files

http://authorities.loc.gov.

To access the Subject Authority file records, click on "Search Authorities", then select "Subject Authority Headings" before typing your search statement into the "Search Text" box. Click on the "Begin Search" button to execute your search.

(Once the opening page has loaded, under GNS Search on the navigation bar on the left side of the screen select "Text Based Page.")

Sanford Berman

Click here to visit a re-creation for my students of the Sandy Berman main page.

Links within this re-creation of http://www.sanfordberman.org/ (the original has been rendered invisible) will take you to his subordinate pages, which are still available on his website.

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