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MARC Bibliographic Materials

Library of Congress

• LC Home Page -- LC WWW Server
• An introduction to MARC by Betty Furrie
• Marc Standards -- MARC21 Standards
• MARC21 format for bibliographic data : LC
• MARC21 code list for countries
• MARC21 code list for geographic areas
• MARC21 code list for languages
• Metadata information from LC
• Functional analysis of the MARC21 bibliographic & holdings formats

OCLC

• OCLC Concise MARC Standards
• OCLC bibliographic formats

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MARC Authority Materials

• An introduction to authority records by Betty Furrie
• LC MARC21 format for authority data
• LC Authority Files
• Web of Authorities - Bibliography listing of tools that assist with establishing authorities and general authority control issues.

MARC Description

• Ending punctuation for bibliographic data
• ISBN check-digit
• Roman Numeral Conversion Chart

Catalog Maintenance

• List of OPAC commonly misspelled words
• Typographical errors in databases

Subject Analysis

• 655 subject/index term sources used in $2
• Geographic names sources
• LC weekly lists of new subject headings
• Source codes for genre
• Form Subdivisions #v - Listing of form subdivisions for subject headings.

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Bibliographic Utilities

• Website for the company that produces BookWhere software
• LC Z39.50 Gateway
• OCLC Home Page

Classification

• Dewey decimal classification at OCLC - Dewey Decimal Classification

Cuttering/Shelflisting

• The Cataloging Calculator / Kyle Banerjee
• Composer cutters for scores and sound recordings
• Four-figure Cutter tables / Edward T. O'Neill [et al.]
• Geographic Cutter table for U.S. states and regions
• LC Cutter table
• Regions and countries Cutter table

MARC Record and Metadata Manipulation

• BBMARC Perl scripts for MARC record editing
• Cufts2MARC utility to translate Cufts data into MARC
• Dublin Core/MARC/GILS crosswalk
• FGDC to MARC crosswalk
• MARC Edit -- Windows version of MARCMakr/Breakr from Terry Reese at Oregon State
• MARC Makr/MARC Breakr -- ASCII to MARC and MARC to ASCII conversion from LC
• MARC mapping to MODS at LC
• MARC to Dublin Core crosswalk
• MARC to FGDC
• MARC to UCS/Unicode character mappings
• MARC in XML. FTP the .EXE
• MARC/Perl -- Perl 5 library for MARC/ASCII and MARC/XML
• MARCView Deluxe -- Conversion software, MARC to/from ANSEL, Getty, Latin1
• Onix to MARC21 crosswalk
• MARC and SGML/XML
• MARC specialized tools -- LC listing of MARC record manipulation tools
• VRA Core 3.0 mapping to MARC21

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Cataloging-Related Electronic Serials

• Biblio-tech review
• CONSERLine
• LC Cataloging newsline
• OCLC newsletter
• OCLC technical bulletins

Electronic Lists

• AUTOCAT directory
• FRBR Review Group Discussion List
• OCLC Internet lists
• UNICODE-MARC Discussion List
• Web4Lib home page

Other Tools of Interest

• Cataloger's Reference Shelf
• Cataloguing cheat sheets -- from Mac Elrod
• IFLA Working Group on FRBR
• Logical Structure of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - Part 1 (PDF version only)
• NISO (National Information Standards Organization)
• Program for Cooperative Cataloguing (PCC)

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Web Courses on Cataloging

Librarians in the NWLS area have choices when it comes to training in cataloging.

• University of Wisconsin The School of Library and Information Studies - a listing of correspondence, online and certification library courses.
• NWLS A basic cataloging course is available online twice a year (Spring and Fall) for beginner and veteran NWLS catalogers.