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msheplor | 1 May 02:03
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Lift CD display rack

Hello there
My library is in need of an additional display rack that will work with our
existing CD security cases. Does anyone have an old Lift CD display rack
laying around? We'd gladly pay shipping.
I can send you a picture if you think you might have what I'm talking
about.

Many thanks!

Madeline Sheplor
Head of Technical Services
Bellingham (WA) Public Library
msheplor@...
p: 360-778-7227 f: 360-778-7294
www.bellinghampubliclibrary.org

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Corrigan, Lynn | 1 May 14:46
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Re: Help with subject cataloging - Fiday Cataloguing Laws

You have laws? For cataloguing? 

What else would autocat readers like to see?

;-)

Lynn

Lynn Corrigan
Information Systems Manager
Edinburgh Napier University
Craiglockhart Campus
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
 
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Subject: [ACAT] Help with subject cataloging

Since we are reviewing subjects for each other ... :-)

I am trying to catalog a pamphlet received as a gift from the
University of Pennsylvania Libraries.  There is no OCLC record for this
pamphlet, in defiance of the law which states "Educational and cultural
institutions may not send out gift publications unless they also make
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Mike Tribby | 1 May 14:50

Re: Help with subject cataloging - Fiday Cataloguing Laws

>You have laws? For cataloguing?
>What else would autocat readers like to see?

Fewer laws and more catalogers would be a good place to start.

Mike Tribby
Senior Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses

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Joy Banks | 1 May 15:04
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Re: Dewey Decimal to Library of Congress Classification

Denine asked about reclassification of an academic collection.
 
Mac's advice is great. He sent me the same advice when I first asked the same question. Before I officially
started at my current position, the administration expressed a desire to reclassify our collection
(around 170,000 items). As an academic library of that size, we were long overdue for the move.
Unfortunately, decisions were made before I arrived, so I couldn't put much of Mac's advice to good use.
I'll share a little about what I've learned so far.
 
1. Weed before you reclass. We are in an unfortunate situation which does not allow us to weed heavily, but oh
how I wish we could. It seems like such a waste of resources to reclassify/relable books that are no longer
relevant. Also, an inventory may be a good idea to make sure that you have all the items you think you have and
delete bibs for items that are no longer on your shelves. I really wish we could have implemented Mac's
reclass as you go concept so that those items checked out would be reclassed before they are reshelved.
Maybe next time ;-)
 
2. The decision was made to outsource the label printing for this project. I have made it a point to still
check all the call numbers since the company used a completely automated process. I've tracked the
statistics on the Reference collection, and I've had to reprint about 8% of the labels. These are due to
misprints, faulty classification assignment, and me just being a bit more picky that perhaps I ought.
We've also weeded heavily in our Reference (it really needed it!). We've discarded about 15% of the items
so far. So that's 23% of the reference labels (that we paid for), that have just gone into the trash. Plus the
expense of my time to do this checking and reprinting that 8%. Outsourcing may seem to make sense, but odd
expenses crop up out of nowhere. I don't see that it would have taken any more time to simply reclass as we
went and print all the labels here in the first place. The advantage to outsourcing was that they provided
us with an
 electronic copy of our collection with the new call numbers that allowed us to manipulate lists and overlay
the call number in our system. Unfortunately, our new ILS, Koha, does not allow us to overlay item
information the way Horizon did. My students are stuck keying in all of the call numbers.
 
3. With a smaller collection, you will see the end of the project. Almost three years into ours, we've
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Laurie Neuerburg | 1 May 15:28
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Professional vacancy at UNC-Chapel Hill

 <AUTOCAT@...>*ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL VACANCY
UNC Chapel Hill, University Library*
http://www.lib.unc.edu/jobs/epa/original_cat.html
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*Position:      Original Cataloger*
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*Available:    May 1, 2009*
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks an energetic and
collaborative librarian to serve as an Original Cataloger.  This Original
Cataloger is primarily responsible for original and complex adaptive
cataloging of monographs in Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages of the
Iberian Peninsula, as well as native Indian languages of Latin America.  This
individual also consults with colleagues as needed regarding cataloging of
Latin American and Iberian materials in other formats and in order to
resolve complex cataloging situations.  This Original Cataloger also shares
responsibility for original and complex adaptive cataloging of English
language monographs.  This position supervises one paraprofessional staff
member, an adaptive cataloger.

The Original Catalogers work in a collegial environment of cataloging
specialists. Cataloging is done using OCLC’s Connexion Client and the
library’s Innovative Interfaces local system. The position is in the
Original/Adaptive Section of Resource Description & Management and reports
to the head of the department. Catalogers at the UNC Libraries contribute
national-level cataloging through NACO, BIBCO, and other PCC programs.
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Park, Young, NAVHISTHERITAGECOM | 1 May 15:43
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Port. In 300 field

Hi,
LC seems ignore port. (portrait) in 300 field and treats it as a
illustration.
When do you put port. (portrait) in 300 field?

Young Park
Navy Dept. Library

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Pat Fowler | 1 May 16:45
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geographic subject used as corporate author

I'm looking at this geographic subject heading:
151  High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)

I understand that it can be used as a name heading as well, but don't understand why, when used as a name, the
first indicator is 1 and not 2.  It seems to me that this would be a name in direct order.  Can someone please
help me with this?

Why...
110 1  High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
and not
110 2  High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)

Thanks,

Pat Fowler

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Patsy D. Fowler
Head, Cataloging Department
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Archives and Information Services Division
Austin, Texas 
512-463-7102

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Irene McMorland | 1 May 17:08
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Re: geographic subject used as corporate author

Because whatever it calls itself probably doesn't end with <(Tex.)> ?

Irene McMorland
Atlanta (Ga.)

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Pat Fowler <pfowler@...> wrote:
> I'm looking at this geographic subject heading:
> 151  High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
>
> I understand that it can be used as a name heading as well, but don't understand why, when used as a name, the
first indicator is 1 and not 2.  It seems to me that this would be a name in direct order.  Can someone
please help me with this?
>
> Why...
> 110 1  High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
> and not
> 110 2  High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pat Fowler

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Aaron Kuperman | 1 May 17:17
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Re: geographic subject used as corporate author

No that can't be it. The "Texas" is qualifier would apply for any of
several reasons. If it is a "jurisdiction" the qualifier is "1", and if
it is a government agency it would be a "2". Since it doesn't really
correspond to a piece of territory and isn't the government of some
territory, I'ld suggest a "2" would be correct (presumably it is an
agency that has authority over certain matters within a certain
geographic range).  However that leads to the question of why it is a
151 in the NAF. I'ld ask who did the record (I'm home now and can't
check the official NAF from home). 

If I encountered it for the first time, I'ld be inclined to establish it
as a 110 in the authority, file, and find the region it serves for use in
the 650 subfield z.

Aaron (from home)

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> Because whatever it calls itself probably doesn't end with <(Tex.)> ?
> 
> Irene McMorland
> Atlanta (Ga.)
> 
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Pat Fowler <pfowler@...> wrote=
> :
> > I'm looking at this geographic subject heading:
> > 151 =A0High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
> >
> > I understand that it can be used as a name heading as well, but don't und=
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Esther Mandel | 1 May 17:20

Re: Port. In 300 field

Young Park asked when we include "port(s)." in a 300.  

In my cataloging class, I was taught that a portrait is a picture of a real person or persons in which the
subject could be recognized or identified, even if he or she is not identified by name.  I include
"port(s)." whenever I think the reader would be interested.  Photos of celebrities in a celebrity
cookbook are clearly ports.  Old photos in family histories are.  A snapshot of the author on the last page of
a novel is not.  Being that sort of person, I suspect that I would say "ports." for a book including the photos
of the winners of the Westminster Dog Show for the last 40 years, even without any people in the pictures. 
The dogs would be individually identifiable.  However, the hamsters in a how to raise hamsters book, or the
sketches of the fictional pets in Rita Mae Brown's mysteries, or Curious George's drawings are not
ports., as they are either not real or not individualized.  Photos of models, however clear, while they
interact with the subject of the photo (as in "wheels are round.  A cookie is round" with children holding
toy trucks and cookies) are not ports., as no one cares about the identity of the models, except maybe their
mothers.  But a grainy photo of WWI soldiers in a bunker could be, even if they weren't named, as they are
important to the photo. Remember cataloger's judgment.

Incidentally, all forms of illustration, whether maps or ports. or facsims. or plans or unclassifiable,
are subsets of ill., and can be left at ill. if you prefer, although AACR2 says to identify the type if all of
one type: "|b maps."   

Esther Mandel
Cataloger
Sarasota County Public Libraries
Sarasota, Florida, USA
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