Cataloguing Practice, 6 March 2008, at Aslib, London
Programme Features:
A practical course, for people with cataloguing experience, on using AACR2
(Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2nd ed.) and the MARC (MAchine Readable
Catalogue) Manual.
- Introduction: the essential principles and purposes of cataloguing
- The tools available: AACR2; MARC (UKMARC, USMARC, MARC21) ; authority files
- The tools in use: AACR2 descriptions; AACR2 access points; MARC coding
- The manual product: physical formats; guides
- The automated product: OPACs as the output user interface; adding further data
to increase user access through the OPAC
- Practical exercises including: making simple and complex records for different
types of material; building an authority file; developing Local Practice Notes;
accessing and using records in online OPACs via the Internet.
Why you should attend:
If you have experience of cataloguing or database compilation but need guidance
or practice using AACR2 and MARC (including MARC21), or want to refresh
knowledge gained some time ago, this course will give you the skills needed,
including some practice in using online public access catalogues (OPACs) and
thinking about their design criteria. Participants are invited to bring typical
material from their collections to form a group of items that can be considered
in the practical sessions. This course is not aimed at complete beginners; they
would benefit by taking Aslib's companion course Basic Cataloguing and Indexing.
On completing this course, you will be able to:
- make catalogue records for a wide variety of different information forms
encountered in your workplace, at an appropriate level for your users
- provide suitable access points for these records
- add further access possibilities for an automated catalogue
- develop Local Practice Notes appropriate to your collection and users
- build an authority file
- organise your collection appropriately for users' needs
- make appropriate recommendations on choice of OPAC software
Course Director: James Shearer. James is an Information Consultant and a
part-time Senior Lecturer at a Business School, where he teaches undergraduate
and postgraduate classes concerned with information management and information
strategy. Particular interests are information strategy, information retrieval,
database development, and knowledge management. He has taught a number of short
course in the UK and abroad dealing with aspects of information retrieval and
has published, with Alan Thomas, two books: Cataloguing and classification :
trends, transformation, teaching and training (Haworth Press, 1997) and Internet
searching and indexing : the subject approach (Haworth Press, 2000). He is
currently researching the use of thesauri as an aid to knowledge capture.
Course fee: £260+VAT (Aslib Corporate members)/£325+VAT (non members)
To book your place, please visit: http://www.aslib.com/training/4/03.html
Nicole Adamides, ASLIB Training
The Holywell Centre, 1 Phipp Street, London, EC2A 4PS
Tel: 020 7613 3031 Fax: 020 7613 5080
www.aslib.com/training Email: [log in to unmask]
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