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Last Updated 03/11/2024
Contact information for Cataloging Committee members if you have any questions.
General Cataloging Training:
ABLE courses from Idaho Commission for Libraries (free)
ABLE courses via Webjunction (free)
LOC training resources Catalogers Learning Workshop (free)
ALA Fundamentals of Cataloging ($)
MARC Encoding:
Bibliographic Formats and Standards (free)
Fixed Fields (free)
Value Lists for Codes and Controlled Vocabularies (free)
LOC Understanding MARC (free)
Maxwell’s Handbook for RDA (available for request via the Library Development Professional Development Collection)
Authorities:
LOC Authority Search (free)
Understanding MARC Authority Records (free)
MARC 21 Format for Authority Data (free)
Authorities: Format and Indexes (free)
Maxwell’s Handbook for RDA (available for request via the Library Development Professional Development Collection)
RDA:
RDA Carrier Types (free)
RDA Content Types (free)
RDA Media Types (free)
LOC RDA Record Examples (free)
Maxwell’s Handbook for RDA (available for request via the Library Development Professional Development Collection)
Subject Headings and Genre/Form Terms:
Library of Congress Subject Headings Manual and Genre/Form Terms Manual (free)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) - librarianshipstudies.com (free)
LOC Genre/Form Terms (free)
LOC Subject Headings online training (free)
Basic Subject Cataloging Using LCSH (free)
Dewey:
Library Thing's Melvil version (free)
Decimator iOS app (free) - Note that this is not a full DDC schedule, just a summary.
eDDC Scheme Android app (free) - Note that this is not a full DDC schedule, just a summary.
The Dewey Blog (free)
DDC Glossary (free)
Bibliographic Description:
Evergreen conference presentations:
Cataloging, What's Next? by Jennifer Weston, Jonathan Furr, and Galen Charlton (2018)
Cataloging Interest Group notes (2018)