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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] _________________________________________________________________ Free games, great prizes - get gaming at Gamesbox. http://www.searchgamesbox.com