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- Loretta
- Africana newspapers
- Emily
- made progress clearing out inherited serials backlog
- some order record slips from the 70s and 80s!
- Nicole
- SPC manuscript collections with several challenging cataloging decisions
- handmade postcards with various maps from all over the world
- digital video files
- SPC manuscript collections with several challenging cataloging decisions
- Mike
- Zine comic books
- learning the difference between Randy's local terms for New Wave comics (usually handmade, underground in nature, etc.) and Alternative comics (not mainstream but clearly published material, ready for sale, etc.)
- Jessica
- continuing cataloging education with Africana book series in Chinese
- first attempts at name authority work
- Cathy
- collectible card albums from mid-20th century with popularized depictions of colonial Africa
- interesting from a historical perspective, presents some challenges in terms of subject analysis
- Autumn
- cataloged a coursepack and found little guidance in RDA or among best practices communities, and no helpful examples in OCLC
- hard to determine nature of material and responsibility roles – a mix of reproduced published content and professor's supplied bibliographical content
- cataloged as unpublished (t workform) and professor as contributor (700) with $e organizer relationship designator
HIGHLIGHTS FROM OCLC ASKQC PRESENTATION ON "WHEN TO INPUT A NEW RECORD"
- presented by Jay Weitz of OCLC, a well-respected cataloging instructor and database quality expert
- covered mostly familiar territory of OCLC's Bib Formats Chapter 4 "When to Input a New Record"
- some new information:
- for M level pre-publication records, differences between the piece in hand and the 245, 250, 260/264, and 490 fields should be regarded as less significant; catalogers should consider upgrading the M-level record, rather than creating a new record
- when creating a new record for a similar edition, catalogers are encouraged to supply their own 250 statement in order to prevent OCLC's de-duplication program from zapping the new record
- this is permissible under RDA!
- Jay has full presentations about this and other "cataloging defensively" techniques
- OCLC considers a "substantive difference" of pagination to be 3 pages; in resources of 10 pages or less, any difference is substantive
- OCLC considers a "substantive difference" in dimension to be 2 or more cm OCLC desires catalogers to use Chapter 4 as their primary guide for inputting a new record, and the ALCTS Document "Differences between, changes within" as a complementary set of guidelinesLisa
- currently working on batch and manual updates to change Aliens and Illegal aliens subject headings and various related subdivisions in the catalog
- being replaced with terms Unauthorized immigration and Non-citizens
- these new terms have local authority records, which contain all the cross-references for Illegal aliens
- plus they have "Illegal aliens" as a cross-reference
- headings like Children of illegal aliens are not currently being changed; further discussion is planned for handling such headings
HIGHLIGHTS FROM OCLC ASKQC PRESENTATION ON "WHEN TO INPUT A NEW RECORD"
- presented by Jay Weitz of OCLC, a well-respected cataloging instructor and database quality expert
- covered mostly familiar territory of OCLC's Bib Formats Chapter 4 "When to Input a New Record"
- some new information:
- for M level pre-publication records, differences between the piece in hand and the 245, 250, 260/264, and 490 fields should be regarded as less significant; catalogers should consider upgrading the M-level record, rather than creating a new record
- when creating a new record for a similar edition, catalogers are encouraged to supply their own 250 statement in order to prevent OCLC's de-duplication program from zapping the new record
- this is permissible under RDA!
- Jay has full presentations about this and other "cataloging defensively" techniques
- OCLC considers a "substantive difference" of pagination to be 3 pages; in resources of 10 pages or less, any difference is substantive
- OCLC considers a "substantive difference" in dimension to be 2 or more cm
- OCLC desires catalogers to use Chapter 4 as their primary guide for inputting a new record, and the ALCTS Document "Differences between, changes within" as a complementary set of guidelines
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Mini grant project for African language cataloging
- will involve collaborative work between catalogers and language experts from the community
- Joshua will be asking for volunteers from among original catalogers shortly
- flex time will be offered for hours spent on this work
- the hope is not only to catalog resources we aren't able to process in-house, but also expose these resources to the communities who might be most interested in them, as well as involve stakeholders in the work of describing resources from their own cultures
- More info about Aliens/Illegal aliens changes
- TSTM and EC agreed to use LC's proposed alternatives to these headings, which were fully vetted and authorized for use before legislative issues arose
- A group has been appointed to investigate the possibility of local alternatives to other related subject headings like Children of illegal aliens
- These changes have implications for terms that we assign in our original cataloging work; more discussion and guidance coming
12-18-18 (DRAFT)
QUESTION
- Do WEMI-to-WEMI relationship designators require qualifiers in all cases?
- No, we're to use the relationship designator as it appears in RDA Appendix J. For example:
- 775 08 $i Translation of: $a ...
- 700 1_ $i Abridged as (work): $a ...
- No, we're to use the relationship designator as it appears in RDA Appendix J. For example:
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