Competency#8: Internet, Library of Congress

The Library of Congress has a great web site which is very helpful to the cataloging librarian. Searching with Google, I found the cataloging and acquisitions homepage at http://www.loc.gov/aba/. This site has links to cataloging tools such as MARC code lists and authority records, and news of interest to catalogers. This site is packed and will take a while to explore. I chose this web site because it is like homebase for the cataloging librarian. Great information for the cataloging librarian can be found at this site.

Competency #7: Multimedia

I really like this library map poster. It illustrates the Dewey system which I use in cataloging books and other items for the library where I work. It is a great visual of how a cataloger first selects a main "path" and then looks for the most specific number for the book being cataloged. I wonder if catalogers' brains have a similar look to them? :) I found this image when I searched on Google Image under "dewey decimal system." http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/eLearning/LibraryMap.htm

If you start with just www.1-900-870-6235.com you will start with and even larger information map. You can click at different points in the collage of maps and the smaller ones will jump out. I think the whole site graphically illustrates the librarian pursuing information.

Competency #6: Citation Pearl, WorldCat

My pearl:


Avram, H. D. Developing catalogers for the nation: problems and issues in training cataloging librarians for the future {on-the-job-training at LC}. In: Recruiting, educating, and training cataloging librarians. Greenwood Press, 1989

This is actually a chapter or essay in the book Recruiting, educating, and training cataloging librarians.

Once I found it in WorldCat, I discovered that there was only one other book by this author, not helpful. I could use the subject list for the book to grow my pearl.

SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:	Catalogers -- Recruiting -- Congresses. Catalogers -- Education -- Congresses. Catalogers -- In-service training -- Congresses. Librarians -- Recruiting -- Congresses. Library education -- Congresses. Cataloging -- Congresses.

I used these keywords from the subject list:

S1 = cataloging librarians
S2 = education
S3 = in-service

Here is the second hit. The first one was my pearl.

Self-assessment guide for cataloging.

Publication: St. Paul, Minn. (440 Capitol Square Building, 550 Cedar Street, St. Paul, Minn. 55101) : Office of Library Development and Services, 1986

Document: English : Book

Libraries Worldwide: 24

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This search did not give me what I was looking for. I think I would get a better result if I did this same search in Academic Search Complete or LibLit.

Competency #6: Successive Fractions, Academic Search Complete

Search Question: How has technology changed cataloging?

A. Search using a broad facet: Academic Libraries
B. Narrow by adding second facet: Cataloging and Technical Services
C. Narrow by adding third facet: technology
D. Combine with Boolean logic: (academic libraries) and (cataloging or technical services) and (technology)

Total Hits: 49

First hit:

1. Add AddedReinventing the OPAC. By: Eden, Brad. Library Technology Reports, Nov/Dec2007, Vol. 43 Issue 6, p13-40, 28p; (AN 27425402)

Reflection: I like using Academic Search Complete. This was a great search giving me lots of useful items to look at. 49 hits is not too many, however, I could limit to academic journals and have 38 items from which to choose.

Competency #6: Specific Facet, ERIC Internet

Strategy: It was tricky to find the right combination of keywords. I chose to limit publication to the past 8 years. This also helped narrow the search.

• Publication Date: 2000-2008
• ((Keywords:cataloging) and (Keywords:issues) and (Keywords:library)) and Full-Text Available

I have included a screen shot of hit #4. There were 13 total.

4. From Card Catalogues to WebPACs: Celebrating Cataloguing in the 20th Century. (ED454854)
Author(s): Gorman, Michael Source: N/A Pub Date: 2000-11-00 Pub Type(s): Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers Peer-Reviewed: N/A
Descriptors: Cataloging; Library Catalogs; Online Systems; Standards; World Wide Web Abstract: This paper provides an overview of cataloging in the 20th century. Highlights include: (1) issues in 1901, including the emerging cooperative cataloging system and the work of Charles Ammi Cutter; (2) the 1908 code, i.e., "Catalog Rules: Author and Title Entries," published in British and American editions; (3) the Vatican rules, a code of rules published by the Vatican Library in 1931; (4) the 1941 "ALA (American Library Association) Cataloging Rules, Preliminary American Second Edition": (5) the "Red Book," i.e., "The ALA Cataloging Rules for Author and Title Entries," published in 1949; (6) the work of Seymour Lubetzky, author of a critique of the ALA rules; (7) the 1968 AACR (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules); (8) the MARC and ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description) frameworks developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s; (9) the publication in 1978 of AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition); and (10) OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs) and WebPACs. (Contains 16 references.) (MES) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract Full-Text Availability Options: ERIC Full Text (343K) Reflection: This was an OK search. I only got 13 items, but one of these could be a good starting place for a growing pearl search. You never know. This one article is great. When I went back to edit, the same search revealed 29 hits. Oh what a difference a few days make. I still like the #4 hit of the first search best.

Competency #6: Building Block, LibraryLit

Strategy: I changed a few words in my building blocks until I had a manageable number.

Search Results:

31 Records found for (cataloging or technical services) Smart Search AND (competency or skills) Smart Search AND (college or university) Smart Search

In Library Lit & Inf Full Text

Here is hit #3.

Glasser, S. The Changing Face of Cataloging Positions at Academic Institutions: What Skill Set is Needed, and How Can Students Prepare?. The Serials Librarian v. 51 no. 3/4 (2007) p. 39-49 Library Owns? Find Full-Text Reflection: I like the building block search the best. I use it a lot. I think this search ended well because 31 hits is quite manageable.