Cataloguer's Toolbox

Welcome to the Cataloguer's Toolbox, homepage for the Cataloguing Division of the Queen Elizabeth II Library at Memorial University of Newfoundland. From this homepage you can access local cataloguing tools, including departmental policies and procedures and the latest production statistics, as well as resources from other Internet hosts around the world, including the Library of Congress, National Library of Canada, OCLC, and more.

Quick reference	View cataloguing tools by format: Archival materials \| Books \| Electronic journals \| Maps \| Music \| Remote electronic resources \| Serials \| Visual materials View cataloguing tools by subject: Law \| Medicine Reference resources for cataloguers LC Z39.50 Gateway

Local tools	Bibliographical Translation Tables -- Listing of English Equivalents for Common Bibliographical Terms Cataloguing statistics for the calendar year 1996 \| 1997 FF Classification -- Newfoundland History Classification LC cutter tables Policies and procedures by subject Policies and procedures by MARC field tag Recent tools-- Receipt dates of most recently received cataloguing tools Regions and countries Cutter table Serial holding codes for Union List Special Projects: GovDoc Integration \| Recon Unicorn toolkit -- Verify lists, tables, & guides to using SIRSI's Unicorn at MUN

USMARC documentation	USMARC format for authority data: here \| LC Web \| Gopher USMARC format for bibliographic data: LC Web \| Gopher USMARC format for bibliographic data: here: Field listing, 001-9xx USMARC format for bibliographic data: here: Leader & Fixed Fields USMARC format for bibliographic data: here: Variable Fields USMARC format for classification data USMARC format for holdings here \| LC Web \| Gopher USMARC code lists at OCLC USMARC country codes here \| at LC USMARC geographic codes here \| at LC USMARC language codes at LC USMARC language codes here, by code USMARC language codes here, by language

Library of Congress cataloguing tools	Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) Core bibliographic standard for Books \| Scores \| Sound recordings LC Marvel -- Library of Congress Gopher Server LC Web Home Page -- Library of Congress WWW Server Library of Congress classification at Geocities \| at LC LC Z39.50 Gateway LCSH Weekly Subject Heading Lists LCSH standard subdivisions -- At Princeton USMARC format -- USMARC Format Documentation (at LC)

Other national library connections	British Library National Library of Australia National Library of Canada WWW Server National Library of New Zealand Virtual Canadian Union Catalogue Project

A-G Canada cataloguing tools	A-G Canada home page LHF4 -- CatSS MARC format documentation

OCLC cataloguing tools	OCLC Home Page OCLC bibliographic formats OCLC forms server -- bibliographic change and dup reports OCLC participating institutions list DDC main page InterCat Project Passport for Windows -- an archives of scripts and email Searching the OLUC reference card Technical Bulletins

Other remote tools of interest to cataloguers	AUTOCAT Directory British Library National Bibliographic Service Cataloger's Reference Shelf CONSER Dewey Decimal Classification summaries International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR Internet Library for Librarians Library association links-- local, regional, national & international Library Support Staff Resource Center LibSoft -- Software for Librarians List National Library of Medicine Web server NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Program for Cooperative Cataloguing (PCC) Research Libraries Group (RLG) Research on catalogues and cataloguing Technical standards for communicating electronic bibliographic data and metadata -- Z39.50, TEI, SGML, Dublin Core Top 200 technical services benefits of home page development UKMARC Bibliographic News Web4Lib Home Page WWW Library Guide Other Technical Service-related library and commercial homepages

Cataloguing-related electronic serials and newsgroups	ALCTS Network News Associations and organizations related to information studies CCQ -- Cataloguing and classification quarterly CONSERLine ITAL -- Information technology & libraries Journal of Internet cataloging LC Cataloging News LIBRES -- Library and information science research journal LITA newsletter OCLC Technical Bulletins SERIALST archives Technical services law librarian UBIS news USMARC List archives

Remote Library Catalogues	OPAC finding tools World Wide Web-based library catalogues Telnet based library catalogues

Maintained by: Charley Pennell, Head, Acquisitions/Cataloguing Division, QEII Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Please send your comments and corrections!

Last revised: 2 October 1997

Over served since 1 September 1997!

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