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David Iversen | 1 Jul 01:16
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Re: cataloging level on Masters theses

Carissa:

I do all of our cataloging, including Master's theses in Education, Business Information Technology, and
Communication Disorders. Every master's thesis is fully cataloged directly on OCLC, with LCSH subject
headings and an abstract. For reasons established before I arrived here in 1996, a local Library of
Congress Classification style of call number is assigned, using the 099 field. Workload and costs have
(so far) never been an issue. The original cataloging is as full and complete as possible so as to maximize
the potential for the cataloged thesis to be found in the library catalog. And they do circulate, as each
academic year and especially each summer session current graduate students check out previous theses to
see how they were done and to make use of the research contained therein. The abstract allows for the
inclusion of terms for which an adequate subject heading does not yet exist but which can be retrieved
through a keyword search. You can access our catalog at http://www.minotstateu.edu/library/ by
clicking on "Find Books". Click on ODIN, then do a "keyword anywhere" search on thesis and a "collection"
search on SPEC, to see what our records look like. I am full time with a half-time assistant.

Hope this is helpful,

David

David S. Iversen, M.A., M.L.S.

Cataloging & Government Documents Librarian,
Gordon B. Olson Library,
Minot State University,
500 University Ave. West,
Minot, ND 58707
Phone: (701) 858-3859
Fax: (701) 858-3581
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Karen Weaver | 1 Jul 01:55
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Re: Blog post: Library Catalogues are no longer an inventory but a place, and a community by Laurel Tarulli

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:15 AM, James Weinheimer <j.weinheimer@...>wrote:

> ...."I am certainly not the first person in the history of librarianship to
> point
> this out. For an excellent and provocative discussion of this in relation
> to
> bibliographic standards, see the lecture available at the Library of
> Congress, No Longer Under Our Control: The Nature and Role of Standards in
> the 21st Century Library by William Moen.
> http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3373
>

>
> James Weinheimer  j.weinheimer@...
> Director of Library and Information Services
>  The American University of Rome
> Rome, Italy
>

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Karen Weaver | 1 Jul 02:13
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Re: Blog post: Library Catalogues are no longer an inventory but a place, and a community by Laurel Tarulli

Sorry, that last post got sent too quick without my comment on it,

What I just wanted to just add, was that your first call to arms below, to
catalogers and librarians doesn't seem to be talking about bibliographic
control standards, but "losing control *over users*".  That's just not the
role libraries are in, we believe in intellectual freedom first, even as
catalogers.   Controlling users could be called "censorship"...esp in a
library.
As a library director especially, do you think about 'controlling your
users" when they use your library ?  maybe you meant to say 'management of
information' or something like that.

Best, Karen

Karen Weaver, MLS, Cataloging & Classification, The iSchool at Drexel,
College of Information Science & Technology, Philadelphia PA email:
karen.weaver@... / Electronic Resources Statistician,
Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email: weaverk@...

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:15 AM, James Weinheimer <j.weinheimer@...>wrote:

>  ...."I am certainly not the first person in the history of librarianship
>> to point
>> this out. For an excellent and provocative discussion of this in relation
>> to
>> *bibliographic standards*, see the lecture available at the Library of
>> Congress, No Longer Under Our Control: The Nature and Role of Standards in
>> the 21st Century Library by William Moen.
>> http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3373
>>
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Carol Reid | 1 Jul 04:22
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Daily Typo - June 30, 2009 - Filmak* (for Filmmak*)

Typo of the Day for Librarians
Filmak* (for Filmmak*)

This typo turns up an amazing 898 times in OhioLINK today. Undoubtedly, 
some of these are correctly spelled foreign words or trade names, while 
others are misspellings on the piece itself. /Filmmaker/ and its ilk are 
very commonly misspelled words, in which one M is mistakenly substituted 
for the two M's the words actually should contain. German filmmaker 
Fritz Lang is largely known for /Metropolis/, the most expensive silent 
feature ever made at the time of its release, and the thriller /M/, 
which was his first sound movie and the one he considered his best. 
Although Lang denied the connection, /M/ was thought to be based upon 
the case of Peter Kürten, the "Vampire of Düsseldorf." According to 
Wikipedia: "A police psychiatrist in the film cites serial killers Fritz 
Haarmann and Karl Grossmann as examples of how such criminals can 
conceal themselves in everyday society." Double letters are not 
concealed in those two surnames and in fact show up in a great many 
German and English words. Don't let the two M's in *filmmaker* and its 
relatives get away from you; you're sure to catch a least of few of them 
in your own catalog. Although in the case of transcribed fields, you'll 
probably have to do some additional investigative work.

(Fritz Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou in their Berlin apartment, 1923 
or 1924, from Wikimedia Commons.)

Carol Reid

Extracted, for AUTOCAT, from Typo of the Day for Librarians at 
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Hal Cain | 1 Jul 06:43
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Re: FW: strange authority records

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:12:18 -0400, Dan Clinton <daniel.l.clinton@...>
wrote:

>There ARE dups in the OCLC file under Foreign workers $z [Country].
>Denmark, for example has 2 completely identical SAFs with different
>control numbers. The others I checked are dups with different
>authorizing 670s. They are not all 2009 records.

And the proper thing to do is to email the Policy and Support Division
<policy@...> at LC (formerly CPSO) with a concise statement of the
details -- cut-and-paste the record displays is a good way to do that -- and
they'll deal with it.  Since the master file resides in LC, they are the
most efficient way of getting things set right.

Hal Cain, serial PSD correspondent
Dalton McCaughey Library
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
hal@...

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James Weinheimer | 1 Jul 09:40

Re: Blog post: Library Catalogues are no longer an inventory but a place, and a community by Laurel Tarulli

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:13:57 -0400, Karen Weaver <melvil4u@...> wrote:

>Sorry, that last post got sent too quick without my comment on it,
>
>What I just wanted to just add, was that your first call to arms below, to
>catalogers and librarians doesn't seem to be talking about bibliographic
>control standards, but "losing control *over users*".  That's just not the
>role libraries are in, we believe in intellectual freedom first, even as
>catalogers.   Controlling users could be called "censorship"...esp in a
>library.
>As a library director especially, do you think about 'controlling your
>users" when they use your library ?  maybe you meant to say 'management of
>information' or something like that.

As I went to some pains to point out, in the past, the moment our users 
entered the door of the library, they were in a highly controlled 
environment in many ways. Much of the anguish that librarians are currently 
going through is that they no longer have that level of control over their 
users. Does this mean that librarians are actually "control freaks" who want 
to control each and every action of their users?

Of course not, but this is the way we are often portrayed in the popular 
media: as stuck-up old fuddy-duddies who are wedded to their own ways and 
can't change at all. Some users really believe that. Of course, I don't.

I view a library like a giant, terribly complex machine. If people are going 
to use this "machine" correctly, they need to know how it operates. There 
are right ways to use it, and wrong ways to use it, and it only makes sense 
that we show our users the right ways, which will save them much time, pain, 
and frustration. Earlier--essentially before the introduction of keyword
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Jack Hall | 1 Jul 13:37
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Re: cataloging level on Masters theses

We do full original cataloging of all University of Houston theses 
(senior honors, masters, doctoral), including LC subject headings. 
That began in 1980 and we have no plans to add subject headings 
retrospectively. We use a local call number scheme and an added entry 
(in our catalog only, not OCLC) for the department or college.

Jack

At 04:44 PM 6/30/2009, Carissa Creed Hernandez wrote:
>Hello,
>I have been asked to inquire of the cataloging community how many people do
>full level original cataloging for Masters theses, including assigning LC
>subject headings?  ...

Jack Hall
Manager, Cataloging Services
114L University of Houston Libraries
Houston, TX  77204-2000
telephone:(713) 743-9687
e-mail: jhall@...
fax: (713) 743-9748 

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Stephen Pew | 1 Jul 13:54
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Re: cataloging level on Masters theses

Dear all;

At Salem State College, we catalog Masters theses using LC call numbers and 
subject heading tracings. We also add entries for the college department.

Stephen C. Pew
Catalog Librarian
Salem State College Library
57 Loring Ave.
Salem., MA 01902
pew@...

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> We do full original cataloging of all University of Houston theses (senior 
> honors, masters, doctoral), including LC subject headings. That began in 
> 1980 and we have no plans to add subject headings retrospectively. We use 
> a local call number scheme and an added entry (in our catalog only, not 
> OCLC) for the department or college.
>
> Jack
>
>
> At 04:44 PM 6/30/2009, Carissa Creed Hernandez wrote:
>>Hello,
>>I have been asked to inquire of the cataloging community how many people
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Linda K Ginn | 1 Jul 15:34
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Re: cataloging level on Masters theses

At USM, we catalog all theses at a full level including LC subject headings, classify with an LC number in
090, and add entries for department/college and series statement. We do not add an abstract. Our
workforms can be seen at:
http://www.lib.usm.edu/techserv/cat/tools/#local 
Under Local Tools, select Dissertation, Master's, Honors, or Bachelor's thesis workform.

A year or so ago, we took the extra step of entering brief records (in all caps) to the catalog when we receive
new dissertations/theses. We enter a small amount of standardized information (title, author, type of
thesis, year, temporary call number, and: IN PROCESS: RECEIVED FROM THE GRADUATE SCHOOL [date]. Brief
records are then overlaid with full records until all are complete. We chose to do this to aid our ILL/Doc
Del colleagues, who regularly receive requests for relatively new dissertations. If they receive a
request and do not find that title in our catalog, they know Bib Svcs has not received it to be cataloged yet.
If they find an all caps brief record or a full record, they send the request to us and we fill it on the same day
(if already cataloged) or by the next day (if it isn't). It is more work for Bib Svcs on the front end, but this
process is serving the Doc Del group well by providing information they need to streamline their
services. We have brief records for dissertations in our catalog now. They can be seen at:
http://anna.lib.usm.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/N22Ep5iYGb/COOK/198820008/60/502/X 
Search for (Words anywhere) Dissertation. All caps results are the brief records. 

Linda K. Ginn, M.L.I.S.
Asst. Professor, Catalog Librarian
University Libraries, Bibliographic Services
The University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive, #5053
Hattiesburg MS 39406
601-266-6398

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Williams, Ann | 1 Jul 16:17
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Re: Blog post: Library Catalogues are no longer an inventory but a place, and a community by Laurel Tarulli

Maybe a less inflamatory word than controlling would work: guiding? directing? 

I can see the controlling aspect to libraries as a former Circulation Supervisor. We have all sorts of
rules, policies, categories and limits in regard to access to and use of our materials, services and
space. The controlling aspect is probably less obvious for people in other library positions but
consider the use of a "controlled" vocabulary for example instead of natural language as well as
"authority" records, which to a non-librarian seem clearly incomplete (lacking death dates). Or note
the way information is limited (by cataloger choice) on our bibliographic records: for example, only a
low number of subjects and a seemingly arbitrary number of authors are permitted, and key information
such as contents is optional. Or think of the way access to information is limited by the settings we have
chosen (or are limited to) in our ILS. And it is library staff who makes selections for acquisitions, not
our patrons who may have very different interests. And it is library staff (readers services) who make
recommendations to patrons not other patrons who have used the materials. Reference and Library
Instruction are designed to show patrons the "right" way to search, at least according to a particular
library or librarian.  I sometimes think that one reason full cataloging or enhancements to
bibliographic records may not be highly valued by our peers is that they may not have realized how many
patrons no longer are being "guided by" library staff to make up for the "limits" of the bibliographic record/OPAC.

Ann Williams
Systems/Cataloger

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