This blog to give me a place to vent about cataloging issues I encounter every day.
Although I use Destiny Library Manager from Follett Software Company and have access to their Alliance Plus records I never accept catalog records from elsewhere without editing to make them suitable for my own catalog.
I love cataloging for a lot of reasons:
  • My mind runs to organizing stuff
  • I love learning about new things and trying to figure out how to make information resources accessible to my students and teachers
  • I'm a bit obsessive about making sure subject headings, keywords, classification numbers, etc. are consistent.
Follow this blog to learn how I catalog my collection, my pet peeves with subject and classification schemes, maybe a little about RDA, the new cataloging rules which are set to replace the old Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, and whatever else I'm inspired by.

Friday, August 7, 2015

A new catalog, a new beginning

As you can see I haven't posted to this blog in quite a while. Now I have a new motivation to do so. For the past several months I've been working on the Oakland Unified School District online catalog. My major task is fixing subject headings, but in the process I'm also merging duplicate records, finding or creating better records, deleting records with no copies, and so forth. I started at the beginning of the alphabet (actually, numerals first) and am already up to archeology. Woo-hoo! My main motivation for continuing this blog will be concerns and criticism of Sears List of Subject Headings. I'm finding typos all over the latest edition (21st : 2014) and will point those out as I go along but there also other issues which crop up including incomplete cross-references, interesting lapses in included subject headings, and many more. I encourage comments on my posts. I have my opinions which you certainly may not agree with. Let's get a conversation going!
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