Procedures

• Authority Control
• Classification & Cuttering
• Contingency Plans
• Descriptive Cataloging
• Electronic Resources
• Gifts
• IRIS / WORKFLOWS
• Languages
• Library of Congress
• OCLC
• RLIN
• Searching
• Subject Analysis
• USMARC
• Workflow
• Other Useful Resources
• Archives

• Cataloging and processing standards and practices (97-04-14)
• Technical services processing roles and responsibilities (95-04-06)

Authority Control

• FAQ on NACO workflow in the RUL Cataloging Department (98-04-15)
• Geographic names from the United States Board on Geographic Names
  • Domestic names query form / U.S. Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
  • Foreign names query form / National Imagery and Mapping Agency, GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
• [DIR] Program for cooperative cataloging / LC
• USMARC format for authority data
  • Concise format / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC)
  • Field list / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC)
• Linking references (CSB nos. 58 & 64 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• Pseudonyms (CSB nos. 57 & 58 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)

Classification & Cuttering

• Classification of subject bibliographies / Rhonda J. Marker (98-04-16)
• Cutters for U.S. regions (AUTOCAT posting) / Gene Kinnaly (LC) (97-02-25)
• Dates in call numbers for CIP items (CSB no. 59 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-10-04)
• Dates in call numbers for loose-leaf and certain other legal publications (CSB no. 59 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-10-04)
• LC call numbers / Rhonda J. Marker (96-10-01)
• LC Cutter Tables / (external document)
• List of approved volume designators / Rhonda Marker (04-01-04)
• New Jersey Geographic Cutters (Emended) / Michael Joseph, Harriet DeCeunynck (96-04-01)
• Passaic Cutter number / Michael Joseph (96-06-06)
• RLG guidelines for using 050 _4 / Karen Smith-Yoshimura
• RUL guidelines for using 050 _4 / Lida Sak, Rhonda Marker (98-02-26)
• Subject Cutter numbers / Harriet DeCeunynck
  • Part 1: Classes A-L (96-06-25)
  • Part 2: Classes M-Z (96-06-25)

Contingency Plans

• Cataloging Contingency Plans For Computer Down Time

Descriptive Cataloging

• Art Exhibits, Added Entries for (CSB no. 59 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-10-04)
• Analytical entries - uniform titles (CSB no. 63 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (95-05-09)
• Cataloger's Initials on Bibliographic Records (06-05-22)
• CJK Examples of AACR2 and LCRIs
• Computer files' headings (CSB nos. 58, 59 & 64 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• Cookbooks and SC/UA: New processing workflow / Michael Joseph (98-06-30)
• Criteria for adding libraries, copies, and volumes / Rhonda J. Marker (98-02-27)
• Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (CSB no. 60 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-10-04)
• Editing Accepted Copy Rhonda J. Marker / (00-07-24)
• Fixed field GPC: s / Rhonda J. Marker (96-03-06)
• Form of larger place (CSB no. 58 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• Merging Records for Multiple Physical Formats - Report from the minutes of Public Services Council / Rhonda J. Marker (02-02-28)
• Merging Records for Multiple Physical Formats - Root Record FAQ / Rhonda J. Marker (03-08-18)
• Order of notes in the bibliographic record according to AACR2R / Rhonda J. Marker (93-05-04)
• Place names: townships; London; former Soviet republics (CSB nos. 57, 58, 60, 61 & 63 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• Procedure to Add to Existing Contents Notes (MARC tag 505) / Rhonda J. Marker ... [et al.] (99-04-28) (99-06-22)
• Reproductions, microform (CSB no. 58 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• Reproductions, non-microform (CSB nos. 58 & 61 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• RLG guidelines for using 050 _4 / Karen Smith-Yoshimura
• RUL guidelines for using 050 _4 / Lida Sak, Rhonda Marker (98-02-26)
• Safety series (IAEA) / Bob Warwick (96-08-13)
• Series Cataloging
  • Series Flowchart for RUL Catalogers / Ruth Bogan (02-04-24)
    • Flowchart 1 [PDF]
    • Flowchart 2 [PDF]
  • Series Flowchart for RUL FastCat [PDF] / Ruth Bogan (02-04-24)
  • Series Instructions/ Ruth Bogan (03-03-13)
  • Series FAQs/ Ruth Bogan (02-04-24)
• Serials and monographs (Principal Cataloger's Workshop) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-06-07)
• Townships, U.S. (CSB no. 63 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (95-05-09)
• Translations (CSB no. 63 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (95-05-09)
• Translations, Uniform Titles for (CSB no. 60 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-10-04)
• Uniform titles: selections (CSB nos. 57 & 60 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• Report of the Workgroup on Enhanced Access to Particular Issues of Journals (93-04-15)
• Geographic names from the United States Board on Geographic Names
  • Domestic names query form / U.S. Geologic Survey, Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
  • Foreign names query form / National Imagery and Mapping Agency, GEOnet Names Server (GNS)

Gifts

• Issues to Consider Regarding Gifts and Unit Receipts
• PRTY Slip Template [PDF] (created by Nancy De Nicola)

Electronic Resources

• BIBCO Participants' Manual [PDF]
• Conser Cataloging Manual updates [PDF]
• Cataloging Policies for Electronic Journals
• Cataloging Electronic Monographs
• Electronic Serials Issues (CONSER)
• Source of Title Note for Internet Resources (OLAC)
• Use of the Electronic Access Field and RU-Online in IRIS Records
• Use of RU-ONLINE and the 856 Field

IRIS / WORKFLOWS

• Acquisitions merges / Mary Beth Weber (98-12-23)
• Barcoding of paperbacks / Mary Beth Weber (98-09-03)
• Call Number Already in Use: Solution (00-10-24)
• "Circulate" and "permanent" flags / Rhonda J. Marker (97-10-21)
• Documentation for Introduction to WorkFlows
  • Basic Anatomy of the WorkFlows Screen and Menus (98-12-08)
  • Moving, Selecting and Customizing Your Toolbar (98-12-08)
  • Basics of printing, searching and online help (98-12-08)
• Loading CJK records
  • Loading CJK Records from RLIN to RUL's SIRSI Unicorn system (98-12-12)
  • Bibload options for the CJK Bibload report (98-12-12)
• Folio subcollections / Rhonda J. Marker (04-03-29)
• Labeling (printouts) / Mary Beth Weber (98-09-03)
• Subscript Character Workaround for Unicorn Workflows
• Profiles
  • [DIR] UNICORN training documentation (98-10-23)
  • [DIR] Various Indexing- related web pages
  • Fixed fields for Books
    • Conversion table 1 - UNICORN, RLIN, OCLC / Harriet DeCeunynck (97-08-08)
    • Conversion table 2 - RLIN, UNICORN, OCLC / Harriet DeCeunynck (97-08-08)
    • Conversion table 3 - OCLC, UNICORN, RLIN / Harriet DeCeunynck (97-08-08)
  • Webcat
    • Production system
    • Test system
  • [DIR] Libraries and sublocations (99-05-11)

Languages

• ALA-LC Romanization Tables [PDF files]
• [DIR] Dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri / W.E.B. Du Bois Library
• Glossary of bibliographic information by language
  - Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
• Initial articles / online version by Princeton University Library
• Language codes
  • online version by LC - Code sequence only
• Translator Service (99-07-20)
  - French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Library of Congress

• "Cataloger's Desktop: A Comparison of the CD-ROM and Web versions" [PDF]
• Cataloger's Learning Workshop
• CONSER
• LC Authorities (Search Authorities)
• LC Cataloging Directorate
• [DIR] LC cataloging newsline
• Library of Congress Z39.50 gateway
  - gateway access to LC's catalog, including name and subject authority records
• [DIR] Program for cooperative cataloging

OCLC

• Bibliographic Formats and Standards
• Connexion Client Documentation
• System Alerts
• PALINET

RLIN

• RLIN output tape and holdings screen equivalencies / Bob Warwick (95-04-27)
• RLIN21 Searching (04-10-06)
• RLIN21 Local Procedures [PDF] (05-02-17)
• RLG holiday service schedule (04-10-06)
• RLG Online Services Status (04-10-06)
• Translations between sublocations and item types / Bob Warwick
  • UNICORN item types to RLIN sublocations (98-07-07)
  • RLIN sublocations to UNICORN item types (98-07-07)

Searching

• Pre-cataloging searching procedures / Mary Beth Fecko, Rhonda J. Marker (95-11-11)
• OCLC WorldCat Searching

Subject Analysis

• Computer files' headings (CSB nos. 58, 59 & 64 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (CSB no. 60 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-10-04)
• Description and travel (CSB nos. 57 & 63 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (98-03-03)
• Form of larger place (CSB no. 58 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• -In literature (CSB no. 63 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (95-05-09)
• Newspapers (CSB no. 58 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• Place names: townships; London; former Soviet republics (CSB nos. 57, 58, 60, 61 & 63 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (94-09-06)
• SACO Participants Manual [PDF - off-site]
• Townships, U.S. (CSB no. 63 review) / Rhonda J. Marker (95-05-09)
• Hennepin County Library online catalog via telnet
  - login: library

USMARC

• Spacing underscore and spacing tilde / Rebecca S. Guenther (LC) (95-09-20)
• Expanded definition of USMARC Leader/06 (Type of Record) / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC) (96-04-15)
• Guidelines for the use of field 856 (Revised August 1997) / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC) (97-08-01)
• Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) - restructuring to accommodate century change / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC) (97-04-07)
• [DIR] Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) Web Page / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC)
• MARC and the Year 2000 / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC) (98-03-04)
• USMARC format for authority data
  • Concise format / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC)
  • Field list / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC)
• USMARC format for bibliographic data
  • Concise format / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC)
  • Field list / Network Development and MARC Standards Office (LC)
• Coding:
  • Country of publication codes
    • online version by LC - Name, Code, and Regional sequences
      - 2003 edition
  • Geographic area codes
    • online version by LC - both Name and Code sequences
      - web version of 2006 edition
  • Initial definite and indefinite articles
    • online version by LC
    • online version by Princeton University Library
  • Language codes
    • online version by LC - both Name and Code sequences
      - web version of 1996 edition, with changes since the 1996 edition
  • Relator, source, description convention codes
    • online version by LC - both Term and Code sequences
      - web edition, including changes and additions announced since 1997 print edition

Workflow

• Acquisitions merges / Mary Beth Weber (98-12-23)
• Cataloger's Initials / Melissa De Fino (08-03-05)
• Cataloging Statistics: Definitions / Rhonda J. Marker (00-11-06)
• Cookbooks and SC/UA: New processing workflow / Michael Joseph (98-06- 30)
• Direct Receipts and Gifts Shipping / Rhonda J. Marker (00-07-24)
• Merging Records for Multiple Physical Formats - Report from the minutes of Public Services Council / Rhonda J. Marker (02-02-28)
• Procedures for handling priority materials / V. Tessa Perry Evans (97-03-11)
• Processing ALEX DOC books / Mary Beth Weber (98-02-10)
• Trade and Manufacturers Catalogs and SC/UA: New Processing Workflow / Rhonda J. Marker (01-03-12)
• Transferred books / Mary Beth Weber (98-10-26)
• Rare books collection development statement / final report of the Rare Books Collection Development Policy Statement subcommittee (96-09-09)

Other Useful Resources

• [DIR] AUTOCAT: List of files
• [DIR] Ergonomics web sites / Bob Warwick (98-02-24)
• [DIR] National Library catalogues worldwide
• OCLC WorldCat Searching
• [DIR] Other technical services web pages / Bob Warwick (03-08-14)
• Training catalogers in the electronic era / ALCTS CCS
• [DIR] WebCats: Library catalogues on the world wide web

Archives

DO NOT USE FOR CURRENT CATALOGING

• [DIR] BPS documentation
• Handling CRIMJ accession numbers / Bob Warwick, Bernice Ginder (90-06-14)
• Old RLIN alphanumeric profiles / Bob Warwick (94-08-26)
• [DIR] RLIN holdings screen examples / Bob Warwick