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Recently the Cataloging Department had a large reduction in permanent staff. In order to accomodate our new staffing level, we are changing task assignments and rewriting procedures. All old procedures will be dated as pre Old procedures are identified in the pre-1/7/099 section. The New procedures will be labeled as 2009. The purpose of Cataloging is to provide to the user the groundwork for finding accurate and meaningful search results. The Syracuse University Cataloging staff remain dedicated to the provision of high quality metadata.
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Explanation of Tag Table changes
National documentation
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- My book has many dates. Which one do I use.
(Rule 1.4F)
See the Terminology Cataloging Terminology page for descriptions of continuing resource and integrating resource.
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- When do I create a new record in OCLC? Answer: Chapter 4
- Is the 246 Mandatory? Answer: 246 page
- I have a 518, but what does this field mean? Answer: 518 page
- What subfields do I need in my 440? Answer: 440 page
OCLC Connexion If you have questions specific to OCLC, Please refer to OCLC OCLC Help Sample questions:
- How do I search for an ISBN?
- How do I setup a constant data?
- How do I control my headings? And what does that do?
Please refer to Classification Web if you have questions about Classification or Subject Headings such as:
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Procedures document what we do currently locally at SU. There are lots of examples of past practice in the catalog, please ignore those. There are lots of paper copies of old procedures, ignore those.
- Abbreviations and Capitalization
- pre 1/07/09 Accompanying Material
- pre 1/07/09 Architectural Drawings
- pre 1/07/09 Auction catalogs : what did we doChinese Students and Scholars Collection
- Authority Control in Voyager
- Audio CD Catalogingpre
- Partial Sets (78s)
- Bookplates and Restricted funds
- Call Number Overview
Pre-1/
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7/9 documentation:
- Explaining the Backlog
- pre 1/07/09 Belfer catalogingBookplates and Restricted funds
- pre 1/07/09 Boundwith ProceduresCall Number Overview
- pre 1/07/09 Cartographic materialpre
- 1/07/09 Census of India
- Chinese Students and Scholars Collection
- pre 1/07/09 Dissertations
- pre 1/07/09 Accompanying Material
- Architectural Drawings
- Auction catalogs : what did we do
- Dissertations
- DVDs and Videorecordings
- pre 1/07/09 Ebook Procedures
- pre 1/07/09 An Explanation of Flagspre 1
- /07/09 Adding issuespre
- 1/07/09 Limitspre 1/07/
- 09 Locations
- pre 1/07/09 Explaining MFHDspre 1/07
- /09 Multimedia titles
- pre 1/07/09 Office copypre 1/07/09
- Oversize
- Partial Sets (78s)
- pre 1/07/09 Print Monographspre 1/07
- /09 Reclamation projects
- pre 1/07/09 Cataloging Reproductionspre 1/07
- /09 Rigler Deutsche
- pre 1/07/09 Rush Matrixpre 1/07
- /09 Score Procedures
- pre 1/07/09 Serialspre 1/07/
- 09 Sound recordings
- pre 1/07/09 Special Collections Catalogingpre 1/
- 07/09 Subject Headings
- pre 1/07/09 Summary and table of contents notes
- pre 1/07/09 SU Thesis catalogingpre 1/07/09
- Website cataloging
- pre 1/07/09 Yankee cataloging Overviewpre 1/
- 07/09 856 Procedurespre
- 1/07/09 MLK Procedurespre 1
- /07/09 End Processing Procedures