MARCs - what do they look like?

A vintage Christmas card.

Okay on to business. In a previous post, I defined a MARC. Also, I've listed some of our sources for MARCs. I want to show you an example.

MARC records are composed of different fields. Each field has a tag number. Here are some of the more important fields:

020 field - this field contains the ISBN.

245 field - this field contains the main title.

300 field - this field contains physical descriptions, such as the paging or measurements.

504 field - mentions the presence of a bibliography.

650 field - this field contains the subject.

Each title in our collection has a MARC record. Every MARC has the same basic construction. The information found in the different fields varies depending on what item you are dealing with.

I think that's enough for one day. Now for a link.

http://www.forgottenbookmarks.com/

MARCs - where do you find them?

Yesterday I defined MARC. Now I'm going to focus on where one finds MARC records. They can be found in many places. For example:

• OCLC - They have many functions. The one we are interested in is their electronic warehouse of MARC records. Catalogers from all over the world use OCLC. They create MARC records and dump them in OCLC's database. We search their database for a MARC that matches the item that we have in hand. We transfer the MARC from OCLC to Virtua.
• Skyriver - A competitor to OCLC. Right now they are suing OCLC.
• Vendors - Patty can get MARC's from vendors such as Baker & Taylor and Midwest Tapes.
• We can create them from scratch in Virtua.

Library related blog - I hesitate to put this up for view. Please do not make finding typos in Virtua your life's work.

http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/

Non library site approved by Jen (a committe of one): This is a video from E's "The soup" featuring a famous dog from the animal planet show "It's me or the dog".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TyJ6tSPBck


Have a lovely Tuesday.

MARC - a definition

This is a painting by William Glackens.
I've decided to keep track of all progress on digital DIY in my first post.

The results of projects can be found in subsequent posts.

I also want to use this blog to provide an overview of cataloging practices at UAPL. I will be explaining copy cataloging in an easy to understand language.

Cataloging @ UAPL - What is a MARC? A simple answer is that it is a complete bibliographic record for any one particular item. It can contain all kinds of information, for example - title, author, publisher, series statement, subjects, and ISBN.

Non library related link:

Did you know that dogs can talk?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xDghiPswLM&noredirect=1

5 BLOGS FOUND USING GOOGLE BLOG SEARCH

A nice pink holiday image.

Here they are:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur
http://www.arresteddevelopmentblog.com/
http://catalogingthoughts.blogspot.com/
http://twilight-breaking-dawn-movie.blogspot.com/
http://melissa-writing.livejournal.com/

Diary of progress made in digital DIY - check here for progress updates

This is called "The romance of autumn" by George Bellows.


Here is a list of my DIY progress so far:
For project 1 - I took the survey. Discovered web ignorance. Read article "Away from the icebergs". Also read "10 ways to find time" article and visited an online wiki called "Library success: a best practices wiki".
For project 2 - Created blog and registered blog. Spent much time designing blog. Still need to do bonus work.
For project 2 - Did upgrade "Find a provide links to 5 blogs" using google blogsearch.
For project 2 - Did upgrade "Create your own personalized banner using PICASA".


Here is a Jen approved web site:

http://www.epguides.com/

This site has a rather comprehensive list of American, Canadian, Australian, and British television programs. Each season of a program is listed. It includes air dates and episode names. It is very useful for updating anorexic bib records for complete seasons of television programs.

Here is a non library web site:

http://cahs-pets.org/

This is the link to the Capital Area Humane Society web page.