Cataloging Resources:  External

OCLC tools and documents:

• OCLC Connexion:  Internet Access

• Connexion Documentation:  main menu

• OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards

  Including:

  4.  When to Input a New Record

  5.  Quality Assurance

• OCLC Librarian's Toolbox:   OCLC Documentation, including code lists, participating institution search, technical bulletins, electronic bibliographic change and duplicate reports, etc.

• OCLC Guidelines for National Level Enhance Participants

Library of Congress tools and documents:

• Cataloger's Desktop (Web)

  Web Access via IP recognition (limited to 9 simultaneous users, so please logoff when work is complete)

• ClassWeb:

  IP recognition

  Logon required

  Intro. to ClassWeb (local document)

  Index to the entire ClassWeb Help file

• Library of Congress Online Catalog

• Library of Congress:  Cataloging and Acquisitions:

  Includes policy statements, procedural guides, current news, etc.  (A major part of this unit was formerly known as the Cataloging Policy and Support Office, CPSO.)

• MARC Standards:  Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office

  MARC Code List for Countries:  valid codes for bib record Ctry fixed-field element (008/15-17)

  MARC Code List for Geographic Areas:  valid codes for bib record 043 field

  MARC Code List for Languages:  valid codes for, e.g., bib record Lang fixed-field element (008/35-37), 040 ‡b, and 041 field

Key organisational rules, standards, etc.:

• FRBR Review Group (Cataloging Section, IFLA)

• MARBI (Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information), ALCTS/LITA/RUSA

• Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC RDA)

• CONSER:  Serials Cataloging Issues

• Holdings statements for bibliographic items (ANSI/NISO Z39.71-1999)

Other Cataloging and Technical Services Resource Pages:

• Cataloger's Toolbox:  Links to internal and external cataloging and related resources at the Queen Elizabeth II Library of Memorial University of Newfoundland.

• Tools for Serials Catalogers:  Vanderbilt University Library's resource of serials related documentation, organizations, discussion groups, etc.

• Technical Processing Online Tools (TPOT):  University of California San Diego's list of technical services resources.

• Cornell University Library, Library Technical Services:  Includes Cornell procedural documents, training materials, and links to additional technical services resources

• MOUG (Music OCLC Users Group) links

• Yale Library Catalog Management Team:  Includes Yale policy and procedural documents, training materials, and links to additional resources on catalog (database) management

• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog -- KVK:

  An international "virtual catalog" that includes links to many (primariliy European) national libraries

• Cataloging Electronic Resources:  OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines / by Jay Weitz, OCLC.

• Tulane University Howard-Tilton Memorial Library:  including:

  Online library catalog

  Databases at Tulane

  Research by subject (online resources by discipline)

• Guide to Cataloging DVDs Using AACR2 Chapters 7 and 9:  Manual compiled by an OLAC task force.

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

Library of Congress authority work resources

• Library of Congress Online Catalog

  Library of Congress Authorities via the LC Web Catalog

• Library of Congress Literary Author (053) Request Form

• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) Weekly Lists

• Library of Congress Classification (LCC) Weekly Lists

Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) authority work resources

• NACO (Name Authority Cooperative):

  Links to documentation including (DCM)Z1 (Yellow Pages),LC Supplemental Guidelines to the MARC 21 Authority Format, 2002 ed. (Blue Pages), etc.; provides NACO FAQ pages on name, uniform title, and series authority records.

• SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative:

  Includes sections:  Subject/Classification Proposal Forms and Guidelines and Documentation, Tools, FAQ, etc., and includes Web Resources for SACO Proposals

OCLC authority work resources

• OCLC Connexion (via Internet access:  to search LC/NACO and LC/SACO authority files

• OCLC Authorities User Guide:

  Includes a section on the Authority Record Format.

Other useful resources for establishing headings

• GEOnet Names Server:   The authoritative online site for geographic headings for places outside the U.S.

• U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System (GNIS):  For place names in the U.S.

• Geographic Names and the World Wide Web (How to Search Geographic Names Online in GNIS and GEOnet):   an LC informational page.

• National Register of Historic Places:

    Properties listed on the Register include districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that are significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture

• Online reference sources:

  Links to biographical, statistical, political, literary, music, science and technology resources; also included are directories, encyclopedias such as Britannica Online, and dictionaries such as Oxford English Dictionary.  (From Tulane's Howard-Tilton Memorial Library website.)

• University of Texas, Latin American Network Information Center:

  Provides access to wide range of online information from and about Latin America.

• Who's Alive and Who's Dead:  One source of information about death dates.

• Internet Movie Database (IMDB):

  Includes biographical information and filmographies aiding in the identification of a multitude of people connected with films, television, etc.

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

[general; non-English; Unicode?]

• Online dictionaries, encyclopedias, and thesauri (from Tulane's Howard-Tilton Memorial library website list)

• YourDictionary.com:  A guide to over 500 online mulitiligual and English dictionaries, as well as thesauri, language identifiers, grammars, etc.

• Travlang's Translating Dictionaries:  Provides several multilingual dictionary searching interfaces.

• Alta Vista Babelfish Translation Tools:  can also translate phrases.

• Glossary of Bibliographic Information by language:

  Concise listing of common terms relating to books and publications, cardinal, and ordinal numbers; compiled at Queen's University Library (Kingston, Ontario)

• Transliteration Tables:  Russian:  From Indiana University's Slavic Cataloging Manual.

• Library of Congress

  LC Cataloging and Acquisitions

  Working group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

  Program for Cooperative Cataloging

  BIBCO:  Monographs

  NACO:  Name Authorities

  SACO:  Subject Authorities

  CONSER:  Serials

  OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)

  Connexion home page:  Integrated OCLC cataloging and metadata services.

  American Library Association

  Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

  ALA Events and Conferences

  Conference Planning Calendar, 2002-2012

  Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

  IFLANET:  International Federation of Library Associations site.

  IFLA Division of Bibliographic Control

  Cataloguing Section

  Classification and Indexing Section

  Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR)

  Working Group, Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR)

  NASIG (North American Serials Interest Group)

  OLAC:  Online Audiovisual Catalogers

  OLAC Cataloging Policy Committee (CAPC)

  Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG)

  Louisiana Library Association

  University of Texas, Latin American Network Information Center:  Provides access to a wide range of online information from and about Latin America.

Page initially created by Peter V. Fletcher; please send updates or questions to:  Rebecca R. Malek-Wiley

Page last reviewed:  4 June 2008