LIBR 513: Cataloguing Special and Non-Book Materials

Winter 2009-2010, Term 2

This cataloguing course is recommended for anyone who expects to pursue work as a cataloguer and relevant to any information professional driven to best utilize bibliographic tools.  Thank you for joining this class where we will learn the current and emerging practices of non-book cataloguing.

About the instructor: Maryann Kempthorne, MLIS SLAIS 2001.  Technical Services and Media Librarian Vancouver School Board.  Email maryakem gmail

“My goal as a library professional is to constantly move ahead as an agent of information access. 17 years of experience in public, special and all manner of academic library systems has built a vision of library information services reliant on usable information systems. As an instructor it is planned that LIBR513 offer foundation skills classes which respond to not just to course outcomes but also to learning goals students bring to their course of study and their view of themselves as librarians.”

Course format.  Lectures and labs, weekly Fridays 8am start in Room 260.

Assignments introduced in labs and completed after class hours for individual submission.  Peer collaboration is recommended but not always required.

Assignment #1 Basic description and MARC coding 5 %

Assignment #2 Access points 15%

Assignment #3 Cataloguing in Context Short Essay 20%

Assignment #4 Creating Metadata-- overall 45%, each section 15%

Part 1 Audio materials; Part 2 Video content; Part 3 Non-book, graphic or other information package

Assignment #5 Creating Metadata: exercises 15%

The most specific lecture details available on course syllabus.  Generally the course is composed of two parts.

Part one of the course Jan 8 to Jan 29: Cataloguing Skills building and Name Access Lessons from Part II of the AACR cataloguing rules

Part two of the course Feb 5 to April 9: Per Format Cataloguing Classes based on Part I Chapters of the AACR descriptive cataloguing rules, with some reference to new trends in bibliographic standards.

Reading and Resources

A to Z Links:

AACR: http://www.rda-jsc.org/index.html

Cataloger’s Desktop: http://desktop.loc.gov

Library of Congress Authorities: http://authorities.loc.gov/

ISBD: http://www.ifla.org/en/isbd-rg

MARC Bibliographic: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/

OCLC: http://www.oclc.org/ca/en/bibformats/default.htm

And http://connexion.oclc.org/

OLAC: http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/

RDA : http://www.rdaonline.org/

And http://www.rdaonline.org/constituencyreview/

Register for Autocat:

Text:
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, second edition, 2002 revision. 2005 update.  Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 1998. via Cataloguer’s Desktop. <http://desktop.loc.gov>

Weekly readings from chapters 6, 8, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 as follows:

Week 3, 21, 22, 23, 24

Week 4, 11

Week 5, 7

Week 6, 6

Week 7, 9

Week 8, 12

Week 9, 12

Week 10, 8, 10

Other readings

Week 1: Introductory

International standard bibliographic description (ISBD) / recommended by the ISBD Review Group ; approved by the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section. Preliminary consolidated ed. München : K.G. Saur, 2007. <http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/international-standard-bibliographic-description>

Week 2: Cataloguing tools/sources

OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards, fourth edition.  OCLC, 2009. http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/

Marc 21 Format for Bibliographic Data.  Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress.  2009 update. http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/

Howarth, Lynne C., and Jean Weihs.  “Enigma Variations: Parsing the Riddle of Main Entry and the “Rule of Three: from AACR2 to RDA.”  Cataloguing and Classification Quarterly 46, no. 2 (June 2008): 201-220.  Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost

Week 3: Name Access

AACR only

Week 4: Primary Access Points Continued

“Section 3: Recording Attributes of Person, Family and Corportate Body.  Chapter 11: Identifying Corporate Bodies.” Resource Description and Access.  Canadian Library Association, 2008. < http://www.rdaonline.org/constituencyreview/>

Week 5: Video Cataloguing

Moving Image Work-Level Records Task Force : Report and Recommendations. OLAC CAPC, 2009.  < http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/capc_files/MIW_1-2.pdf>

Weihs, Jean and Lynne C. Howarth.  “Designating Materials: From “Germane Terms” to Element Types.” Cataloguing and Classification Quarterly 45, no. 4 (April 2008): 3-24. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost.

Week 6 to end Audio, Electronic/Web, Realia and Serials Cataloguing

AACR only as above.