Hi Alex,



All of our staff in Digital Assets, here at the National Library of Scotland, recently attended a two-day course on XML. A couple of Information Systems Developers came as well. 



Flora

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Subject: [CIG-E-FORUM] Getting started in cataloguing



Hi,



I am joining this discussion a little late due to unavoidable commitments at work this morning (which overran a bit). I have been a librarian at Library Services for Education (the schools library service for Leicestershire) for just over 7 years and am keen to move into a cataloguing job. This might seem an odd move, but I have been given principal in-house responsibility for our LMS and really enjoyed the technical challenges this has presented. I'm also a great stickler for detail in the data on our LMS!



I completed an online course on metadata on Coursera over the summer and attended the CIG conference in Canterbury, which was a great eye opener and also reassured me that this was an interesting area for me to move into. I am also currently learning Python with my wife.



I have read through as many of the posts on this thread from this morning but have just not had time yet to digest everything. My big concern is that I don't have any experience with AACR2/MARC/RDA cataloguing, and am not sure of the best way to proceed with this. Judging by some of the posts from earlier today perhaps it's not actually as important as I thought, though it has featured in all of the job specifications I've looked at recently. Also I am thinking it would be useful to teach myself XML or HTML 5 (I have some familiarity with HTML, though I don't get to use it at work on a regular basis), can anyone suggest which one of those would be most useful?



Many thanks,



Alex McGowan MCLIP

Library Services for Education

Leicestershire County Council