Libraries

Created: 2024-02-08 14:11:13 - Touched: 2024-12-09 13:41:06 - Status: Seed

I'm learning about MARC in school right now, and I'm also building my own library software that doesn't deal with books. MARC is not a good tool for anything that isn't a book, it seems. I don't know how I would catalog the metadata of a shovel. Would the manufacturer go under 264? What would the title of the work be?

MARC21 is a formatting standard for the fields. RDA is a formatting standard for the values. BIBFRAME is built on top of RDF and supports links instead of just strings. ISBD is an international standard that seems to compete with MARC? AACR2 has been superseded by either MARC or RDA, probably the latter. Dublin Core? FRBR? IFLA LRM? RDA? TODO: Compare and contrast these standards. Re RDA: "Issues surrounding RDA’s replacement of the General Material Designation (GMD) with what was intended to be more precise terms for content, carrier, and media types (CMCs) were also studied."

Raganathan's Five Laws as reinterpreted by Connaway, L. S.& Faniel, I. M. (2014). Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities. Dublin, OH: OCLC Research, 1-5, 103-108. :

Six steps for collection development/cataloging:

  1. Identify new resources to consider
  2. If they're compound, examine the individual components as well as the whole
  3. Group resources into collections fit for particular purpose
  4. Create a list of the resources within the collection with a standard format (MARC, RDA, BIBFRAME)
  5. Annotate records with normalized vocabulary, subject headings, references to related works, etc
  6. Provide an easy way for the user to search the list and use the found record to retrieve the original information resource

TODO steps of a reference interview.

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