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Cataloguing Potpourri

Laurel Tarulli wrote 1 month ago: While I’ve been on holiday, there have been some interesting cataloguing posts and information mad … more »

Tags: future of cataloguing, Our profession, dewey decimal system, EBSCO, LC Task Force, LCSH, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Library of Congress Task Force, palinet

6 Subject Analysis Block - indicators and subfields

diotima9 wrote 1 month ago: 6Subject Analysis Block Definition and Scope of Fields 600 Personal Name Used as Subject 601 Corpor … more »

Tags: 6, unimarc, blocks, Fields, Subfields

Crima organizata

diotima9 wrote 1 month ago: Subiect Crimă organizată Sinonime Indice CZU 343.341 Text CZU 343.34 Infracţiuni împotriva ordin … more »

Tags: Law, Criminal Law, SH, drept penal, crimă organizată

Week 1-My First MARC record

bibliothecarianovella wrote 1 month ago: First of all, apologies for the delay in updating. As of now, I don’t have internet at home, a … more »

Tags: Dead Languages, Manuscripts

Narrative Nonfiction – A New Genre Heading?

Laurel Tarulli wrote 2 months ago: With the growing popularity of Readers Advisory Services, it is to be expected that skills and exper … more »

Tags: Access Issues, The Library Catalogue, Cataloging, Cataloguing, Genre headings, narrative nonfiction, Novelist, Readers Advisors, reader's advisory services

Subject Headings Clarified: Religious books for Children

rmlblog wrote 2 months ago: A patron recently asked for our Christian section for children and we realized we don’t really … more »

Tags: Children's Books, Christian Childrens' Books

Open Up

marieelia wrote 2 months ago: Last was spent researching OPAC options instead of working on SH, unfortunately. And although it wa … more »

Tags: LCSH, IT, hours-onsite

results are in.2 comments

char booth wrote 2 months ago: Radical Reference has posted the results of its call-out for LC subject heading suggestions. Entries … more »

Tags: Access, categorization/control, Radical Reference

Copy Cat

marieelia wrote 2 months ago: Things have been slow-going because Mary was out of town for three weeks, so I was supervising the c … more »

Tags: IT, LCSH, hours-onsite

Take a (constructive) swipe at subject headings

ellieheartslibraries wrote 3 months ago: I saw this at info-mational and had to share. Check out this awesome project from Radical Referen … more »

Tags: Radical Reference, Cataloging

take a (constructive) swipe at subject headings.1 comment

char booth wrote 3 months ago: Check out this awesome project from Radical Reference, as written up in The Experiment: Viva RR! Do … more »

Tags: Access, not easily categorized, Radical Reference

New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- To 1898.

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Recommended Reading2 comments

Laurel Tarulli wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been waiting for the arrival of our newest professional collection title The Power to Nam … more »

Tags: Access Issues, Our profession, Professional reading, subject analysis

Librarythingers vs. Cookery

geekylibrarian wrote 3 months ago: Librarything is without a doubt my favorite website. Besides the enormous aid it was in finally get … more »

Tags: Libraries, cookery, librarything, tags, Librarians who Librarything

Subject Heading

mrios11 wrote 4 months ago: Subclass HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology  SubHeading#1    HV9261 … more »

Tags: Research Project

The One, the Only

marieelia wrote 4 months ago: So it’s been a while, but the last three weeks have been mostly helping download records direc … more »

Tags: LCSH, QSH, original cataloging, hours-onsite

Contextualizing Subject Access Across Digital Collections

Laurel Tarulli wrote 5 months ago: This is a bit old (2006) but Joseph Dalton’s presentation on Contextualizing Subject Access Ac … more »

Tags: Access Issues, The Library Catalogue, Access, authorities, Digital Collections, Subject Access

Subject navigation for today's and tomorrow's library catalogs1 comment

Laurel Tarulli wrote 5 months ago: This entry is further to Cataloging Futures’ post  LC working group report: an insider’ … more »

Tags: The Library Catalogue, library catalogs, Library Catalogues, Subject Access, Subject navigation

Forget Feminism, Try This Subject Heading . . .1 comment

Barbara wrote 5 months ago: My friend Jenna, who works at Barnard College, catalogs a zine collection and knows far more about h … more »

Tags: Libraries, Library Of Congress, Big Red Books