Continuing Education Archives

Chicago-based cataloging librarian Violet Fox discusses the past, present, and future of inclusive cataloging. Participants will learn about projects being done around the world to address long-standing bias in our catalogs, providing new opportunities to continue this work in their own systems. Attendees will also come away from the session with a renewed awareness of how this work can positively impact both library workers and our users.

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This webinar focuses on how we can get ready and plan for moving away from MARC. We'll trace the history of BIBFRAME development, discuss where we are with BIBFRAME, and talk through what libraries need to do to prepare for BIBFRAME.

We’ll briefly explore how BIBFRAME will change libraries breaking us free of a data structure that has driven our cataloging decisions, ILS development, and even whether our records are “Google-able”.

This final of three sessions will discuss using the BIBFRAME tools including MARCEdit and the BIBFRAME's own tools. Participants will compare MARC and BIBFRAME records, and "catalog" a title in BIBFRAME in real time.

Click here for resources that include links to the BIBFRAME editors as well as a cataloging exercise. 
 

This second of three sessions provides a detailed exploration of BIBFRAME modeling and vocabularies, continuing the discussion of how BIBFRAME changes our work for both copy and original cataloging.

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This first of three sessions discusses how cataloging developed and why we are looking at BIBFRAME, the opportunities and challenges of BIBFRAME, and introduces terminologies such as LRM.

This intermediate Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) session will build on participants' knowledge gained from the LCSH for Beginners webinar. We will explore the Free-Floating Subdivisions list, the Subject Headings Manual, as well as how to assign LCSH to particular resource types, such as biographies and fiction works. This interactive session will be one and a half hours in length.

Presented by Karen Snow, Associate Professor & Ph.D. Program Director at Dominican University

Kathy Glennan, chair of the RDA Steering Committee, will discuss how to prepare for using the new RDA Toolkit. Topics include the structure of the official Toolkit, some of the similarities and differences with the original RDA Toolkit, what resources can be used to support the choices catalogers need to make, and steps to take when cataloging a book.

This webinar was recorded on November 8, 2021, and runs for approximately 53 minutes.

Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a popular cataloging standard used to organize materials in many libraries (particularly, but not exclusively, academic libraries) in the United States. This is the last of a three-webinar series that was designed for LCC novices, as well as those looking to refresh their knowledge of this complex standard. This webinar will focus on the LCC literature class P, with special attention paid to classes PR (English literature) and PS (American literature), and the associated tables (such as P-PZ40).

Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a popular cataloging standard used to organize materials in many libraries (particularly, but not exclusively, academic libraries) in the United States. This online course was designed for LCC novices, as well as those looking to refresh their knowledge of this complex standard. There will be no expectation of previous cataloging knowledge, so those unfamiliar with cataloging practices and standards should feel comfortable jumping right in!

"Cataloging ethics" has been mentioned a lot recently in cataloging circles, but what does this term actually mean, and in what ways does it impact day-to-day cataloging work? This webinar will provide scholarly context for and practical case studies to illustrate ethical issues in cataloging to demonstrate why it is critical for catalogers to view their work through an ethical lens.

This webinar was recorded on September 22, 2020, and runs approximately 90 minutes.

This webinar will move participants beyond the basics of Resource Description & Access (RDA) into more advanced cataloging territory. The presenter will cover RDA for "Library of Things" resources, such as game consoles, fishing poles, yoga mats, mobile hot spots, and other non-traditional items. New MARC fields will be explained, and plenty of examples will be provided to help empower participants to tackle cataloging their own non-traditional resources.

Work, Expression, Manifestation, Item (WEMI) starts out with the broad concept of work and moves towards the narrow concept of item. Libraries have been trying to link related items for centuries. Printed card catalogs were a primitive way of organizing materials by author, title, and subject. The online card catalog is creating a more sophisticated and encompassing linking of materials that are related.

Topics:
- WEMI
- Linked data
- Relationships
- Related resources

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Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR) is the underlying conceptual model of Resource Description and Access (RDA). This webinar will provide a brief description of how FRBR relates to cataloging and a library's database.

Topics:
- FRBR
- Group 1-3 Entities
- RDA
- FISON (Find, Identify, Select, Obtain, Navigate)

Desired Outcomes:
Foundational understanding of how FRBR and RDA serve as the foundation for cataloging in the current environment.

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The Illinois Digital Heritage Hub (IDHH) released the IDHH Metadata Best Practices in early 2017 to assist contributing institutions with providing quality metadata to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). This program will provide an introduction to how metadata is viewed and interacted with in the DPLA environment, and will guide metadata specialists and contributing institutions how to use these best practices to create and develop quality metadata that functions well in DPLA.

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