Making Your Catalog Work

for Your Community:

How to Develop Local Cataloging

Standards

Emily Dust NimsakontHead of Cataloging & Resource Management

Schmid Law Library, UNL College of Law

SELS Training ExtravaganzaMay 13, 2016

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Why do we need standards?

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What are the national cataloging standards?

• Descriptive Cataloging– Resource Description and Access (RDA)

• Classification– Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)– Library of Congress Classification (LCC)

• Subject Headings– Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)– Sears Subject Headings

Creating Local Standards

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Classification

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Melvil Dewey ≠ God

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≠

Explore other options

BISAChttps://www.bisg.org/bisac/complete-bisac-subject-headings-2015-edition

Metishttps://sites.google.com/site/metisinnovations/

Create Your Own Classification

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Subject Headings

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Cross References

Cross References

Local Headings

69X fields 65X fields with $2 localhttps://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/6xx.html

Be aware of how your catalog systems displays and searches these fields

Local Headings

• Keep a vocabulary list• Create authority records (if possible in your

system)

Variant Titles (The 246 field is

your friend!)

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Variant Titles245 10 $a Nebraskaspeak : $b how to talk like a

true Nebraskan (title on title page)

246 14 $a Your guide to Nebraskaspeak (cover title)

Variant Titles

245 12 $a A treatise on the law of property in intellectual productions in Great Britain and the United States : $b embracing copyright in works of literature and art, and playright in dramatic and musical compositions (title on title page)

246 18 $a Drone on copyright (spine title)

Variant Titles245 14 $a The Chiron dictionary of Greek &

Roman mythology : $b gods and goddesses, heroes, places, and events of antiquity (title on title page)

246 3_ $a Chiron dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology (spelling out symbol)

Variant Titles245 10 $a Dinosaurs before dark (title on title

page)

246 3_ $a Jack and Annie (what all your patrons ask for)

Series Information

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Series Information

• 490 field – series title as it appears on the piece

• 830 field – authorized form of the series title

• 830 field can be used to your benefit

Remember: There are no cataloging police!

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1. Be consistent.

2. Document, document, document!

Rules to Live By

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Questions, discussion, etc.

Emily Dust NimsakontHead of Cataloging & Resource Management

Schmid Law Library, UNL College of Lawemily.dust.nimsakont@unl.edu