Because the pamphlets that comprise the French Revolution Collection (FRC) share many characteristics, particularly the location and format of important bibliographic information (i.e. title, author, and publication information), we have made ample use of cataloging templates. During the training process…
Finally getting into a groove working with the French Revolution Collection (FRC) pamphlets. I think I may have even (almost) mastered the order of the MARC notes fields. I encountered a bit of newness with this week’s pamphlets including using…
The training and practice cataloging that I completed during my first two weeks have proved to be a great introduction to finding records for items in OCLC and editing them to better describe the items in the French Revolution Collection…
It’s the beginning of my second week as part of the CLIR French pamphlet project and I’m excited to soon get to work on the pamphlets. Training is going well; I am quickly remembering everything that was covered in my…
In addition to Cataloger’s Desktop and Classification Web, both from Library of Congress, here some other online tools we’ve identified as potentially useful to Project Cataloging Assistants as they work on the project: AACR2 abbreviations (Yale) End-of-Field punctuation in MARC…
Jennifer and I will attend the CLIR Hidden Collections Program Symposium in Washington, D.C., March 29-30. The program looks good, promising to provide speakers, and break-out sessions in which we’ll get to hear how others have or will be managing…