Cataloguing 101

• Library of Congress Frequently Asked Questions about Cataloguing
• The Evolving Catalog / Karen Coyle – history of library catalogues and associated technology
• The MARC of Quality – Useful self-directed online tutorials for beginning cataloguers from Deborah Fritz. Access under the ‘Foundations’ heading in the left-hand menu.
  • MARC21 in Your Library. Part 1, MARC and Bibliographic Information: The Underlying Fundamentals.
  • MARC for Copy Cats. Part 1

Descriptive cataloguing

• Resource Description and Access (RDA)

Classification

• Dewey Decimal Classification
• 025.431: the Dewey blog – 'Everything you always wanted to know about the Dewey Decimal Classification system but were afraid to ask'
• Library of Congress Classification

Subject access

• Library of Congress Authorities – Search authority records, with facility to print, E-mail and download
• Library of Congress Subject Headings – Weekly Lists Weekly lists of new and changed subject headings
• Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms – PDF Files
• Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms – PDF Files
• Thesaurus for Graphic Materials – Tool for indexing visual materials by subject and by genre/format.
• Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku - Māori Subject Headings
• Iwi-Hapū Names – Names from this list can be used as LCSH headings in bibliographic records by adding (New Zealand people) as a qualifier.
• New Zealand Gazetteer of Place Names
• OCLC Music Toolkit – This a tool which automatically generates faceted terms for music resources based on bibliographic data already present in a record.
• OLAC video game genre vocabulary (olacvggt) – A controlled vocabulary of genre terms for cataloguing video games, created and maintained by OLAC Inc. (Online Audiovisual Catalogers).
• Homosaurus – An international linked data vocabulary of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) terms.

Bibliographic files

The National Library of New Zealand provides access to the following files of bibliographic records, on the National Library website:

• Publications New Zealand – a monthly file of records added to the New Zealand national bibliography during that month
• NDHA items – a monthly file of freely available items added to the National Library catalogue from the National Digital Heritage Archive during that month

Authority control

• Library of Congress Authorities – Search authority records, with facility to print, E-mail and download
• Virtual International Authority – File Joint project of several national libraries, matching and linking their authority files and making them available on the Web
• ID.LOC.GOV – provides both interactive and machine access to commonly used ontologies, controlled vocabularies, and other lists for bibliographic description
• MARC standards
• MARC21 format for bibliographic data
• MARC21 format for holdings data
• MARC21 format for authority data
• ANSI/NISO Z39.71 – Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items
• ISBN Converter – Converts 10-digit to 13-digit ISBNs