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Cataloging is a professional skill that requires catalogers to apply multiple rule sets, encoding standards, local decisions, and their own judgement to create a record that adequately represents a resource in the collection. To the new cataloger, knowing how and when to use these various inputs can seem daunting, especially when faced with the minutiae that are part and parcel of these rules and standards. Sometimes you just need to watch someone step through the basic process so that you can see how the pieces fit together.
That’s why in Let’s Copy Catalog a Book!, the ninth tutorial in the ongoing Cataloging Fundamentals video series, we’ll go step-by-step through a basic copy cataloging workflow. We’ll start by examining the book in hand, then move on to searching for a bib record, and finally reviewing and editing the record to meet our standards. We’ll be dealing with a very straightforward example; I hope to cover more complex examples, including original cataloging, in future videos.
The Cataloging Fundamentals video series is one component of the Cataloging Fundamentals Program. If you have ideas for a future video or about how to support new catalogers in Colorado, please drop me a line at hitchner_a@cde.state.co.us.
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