This course covers the principles and practices of online resource cataloguing. It applies current descriptive cataloguing standards (AACR2/MARC21) and practices (LCRI/CONSER/PCC).
The Cataloger's Reference Shelf is based on 21 MARC manuals and other reference works published by The Library of Congress and frequently accessed by technical services staff. A must see for catalogers!
VIAF (The Virtual International Authority File)
A joint project with the Library of Congress, the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, VIAF explores virtually combining the name authority files of all three institutions into a single name authority service. The goal of this project is to facilitate research across languages anywhere in the world by making authorities truly international.
The MARC Code List for Countries contains a list of places and their associated two- or three-character lowercase alphabetic codes. The list includes individual codes for presently existing national entities, states of the United States, provinces and territories of Canada, divisions of the United Kingdom, and internationally recognized dependencies. The purpose of this list is to allow the designation of the place associated with an item by codes in the MARC record for that item.