Cataloging Futures

RDA Training Booklet

One of my ATLA colleagues just pointed out this practical guide to RDA: RDA Training Booklet by Marielle Veve. It can be used as a quick reference for cataloging changes needed for the switch from AACR2 to RDA.

Cool cataloging tool: Web2MARC

Found this last week: Web2MARC is a tool designed for school librarians as a way to automatically generate MARC records for resources they find on the web. This cataloging and metadata generation tool also creates MARCXML, MODS, and CSV formats.

Via School Library Journal

Free cataloging tools!

Another new set of slides from Robin Fay. Good stuff!

Free Cataloging Tools

View more presentations from robinfay.

New blog: Cataloguing aids

A cataloger, like a carpenter, needs a set of tools. So it's a welcome sight to see a new blog focused on cataloging tools. Lynne LeGrow recently started her Cataloguing Aids blog:

This blog has been created to guide catalogers to the information they need, when they need it.  To keep them apprised of changes in the field, to keep them in touch with other cataloguers....

Lynne also maintains the Library Cataloguing Aids website.

Via The Cataloguing Librarian

New, helpful cataloging blog!

Besides having a great title, Three Catalogers Walk Into a Blog, looks like it will be a great resource for catalogers:

This blog is the outcome of several successful programs at the Illinois Library Association’s Annual Conference and Reaching Forward. The original blurb for this program:

“Help! What’s the MARC tag for an award note? How do you catalog an MP3 file? Is there anyone out there who can help me transliterate a Russian language title page? A panel of librarians will discuss tips, tricks, and online resources that cna help you find the answers to your tricky (or sticky) cataloging questions.”

Our hope is continue to highlight resources (mostly online) that will help the cataloger in their everyday and not so everyday tasks of cataloging.

Cool cataloging tools from LC

Yesterday, Carla over at Blog About Technical Services points out some cool cataloging tools at the Library of Congress website. Check it out.