We also have a blog, and the Cataloguers are all encouraged to post if they discover quirks or policy changes. What usually happens in practice is that one person will ask another, and then they both search the blog. As with everything, it is used more by some people than others.
Christina
U Warwick
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From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicky Ransom
Sent: 28 March 2012 12:21
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This sounds a really good idea, Celine. I currently email round when there are things I want the cataloguers to know but perhaps a blog would work better. My concern would be whether everyone who I want to see the information would actually look at the blog regularly - has this been an issue for you? At least with an email, you know it arrives in their inbox.
Nicky
UCA
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From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Celine Carty
Sent: 28 March 2012 12:18
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Nicola,
We have a specific internal blog for cataloguing policies and the kind of things that used to get emailed round to cataloguing staff (changes to LCSH, MARC fields or new policies etc). We found that by posting to a blog, we had a searchable archive of this information so that, instead of searching through emails from 2 years ago because you *know* you'd seen a message about fixed field coding for online resources, you can search the blog either using the search function or the tags. It's quite useful as a backup, since previous emails were not archived anywhere centrally and relied on each individual cataloguer storing a copy.
This serves as an addition to all our cataloguing documentation, most of which is in the form of web pages on the intranet.
Celine
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