The Library of Congress has useful free information. A good place to start is with "Functional requirements for bibliographic records" at http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF.
Doing a search from the LC homepage http://catalog.loc.gov/ for particular items yields a screen from which you can choose a MARC tags tab. At the bottom of this page you can choose to save as MARC format. How you import that file into your system depends on the system you're running. Most include Dewey as well as LC call numbers. Dewey would be more practical for a small collection. If the LC record doesn't have a Dewey number, search public library catalogs. Incidentally, there is a free system available online. Our IT guy found it for a small rural library here in Eastern Wa state. He's out sick today, but I can find out. I would be delighted to offer any assistance I can to the librarian from your discussion group. Carolyn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carolyn Riddle Technical Services Specialist Big Bend Community College Library 7662 Chanute Street Moses Lake, WA 98837 509-793-2356 509-762-2402 FAX -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David P. Dillard Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 6:10 AM To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group Subject: [DDN] Cataloging Library Books for a Small Library Collection LIBRARY: CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION: Cataloging Library Books for a Small Library Collection A librarian from a country in Africa joined a discussion group aimed at Reference Librarians and posted an announcement that this person is a new member of the list, so I welcomed this person to the list. This librarian sent another message to the list and announced new membership and asked for help with how to catalog a small library collection. Now that the new member had a live post with a name, this reference librarian received the same request personally. The last cataloging I did was in a course in library school that I attended the same year that Socrates drank hemlock. <g> I put together some ideas about using catalog records from Google interactions with WorldCat and also using RedLightGreen and found listings for publications about cataloging small collections. Since many people have access and work with small collections of books and magazines in workplace or community group sites, these ideas and sources may be of value to some of the members of this list. Hence, here is the post that I sent back to Africa to the poster. =========================================================== The above is my introduction to the post that I sent to Net-Gold about this personal request for help that I received and the response that I sent may be viewed at this Net-Gold Yahoo Groups archive URL: From: "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Jun 3, 2005 1:00 pm Subject: LIBRARY: CATALOGING AND CLASSIFICATION: Cataloging Library Books for a Small Library Collection <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/6404> Sincerely, David Dillard Temple University (215) 204 - 4584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html> <http://www.kovacs.com/medref-l/medref-l.html> <http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/net-gold.html> <http://www.LIFEofFlorida.org> World Business Community Advisor <http://www.WorldBusinessCommunity.org> _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
