Curriculum Video On Demand issues

Starting on the subject heading, "Men," today.

I've updated over 2000 of the Curriculum Video On Demand records since beginning of the project--that's about one-third of the approximately six thousand records done at this point. New records are added each month so it will definitely be an ongoing project. I am deleting some older or less relevant records as I go along.

Since they usually don't have good subject headings and many irrelevant or peripheral ones, Karlene, my assistant, and I spend a lot of time just deleting those unneeded headings. Here's an example of a MARC record as it comes from Infobase Learning before editing and here's the record after editing.

Why?

I'm starting this blog to give me a place to vent about cataloging issues I encounter every day.
I am a school librarian at a high school in California.
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.