Online cataloging resources

CCS

• CCS website

• CCS RDA Resources

• View your current SIRSI system policies

• CCS Web Reports

General

• LC catalog

• Cataloger's Desktop (subscription only)

• The Library Corporation's Catalogers reference shelf

• AUTOCAT listserv archives

• Cooperative Cataloging Rules: Cataloging rules links

• Core Competencies for Cataloging and Metadata Professional Librarians (ALCTS) 2017

General RDA

• CCS RDA Resources

• RDA toolkit

• RDA training videos from ALCTS

• Library of Congress (LC) RDA Training Materials

• PCC Guidelines for the Application of Relationship Designators in Bibliographic records (2015)

• FRBR-Library Reference Model (LRM)

OCLC

• OCLC Bibliographic Formats & Standards

• OCLC Authorities User Guide

• Searching OCLC WorldCat

• OCLC System Alerts

• WorldCat and Authority Record Quality Control Request form

• Download Connexion software

• Connexion (browser version)

• Connexion macros

• OCLC technical bulletins

• OCLC-MARC format specifications

• Jay Weitz's "Cataloging Defensively on OCLC" presentations (how OCLC’s Duplicate Detection and Resolution software deals with bibliographic records)

ISBNs

• ISBN documentation

• ISBN check digit calculator

LC Subject Headings and Authorities

• LC Linked Data Service (Authority records, vocabularies, MARC code lists, etc.)
• LC authority file
• VIAF Virtual International Authority File
• LCSH Online training
• LC Subject Headings Manual
• LC Subject heading proposal form
• Lists of new Library of Congress Subject Headings
• Genre/Form Headings at the Library of Congress
• Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms
• Best Practices for Using LCGFT for Music Resources
• Best Practices for Using LCMPT (MARC Field 382)

MARC

• MARC formats and code lists

Dewey Decimal Classification

• WebDewey login

• 025.431: The Dewey blog

• Dewey 23 updates

Foreign language cataloging

• ALA-LC romanization tables

• Google Translate

• Foreign Language Online Dictionaries and Free Translation links

• National Library of Russia's online catalogues

• IBFLIBNET (India's national union catalogue)

• Japan's national Diet library catalog

• Japan's National Institute of Informatics online union catalog

• NUKAT (Poland's national union catalog)

• KOLIS-NET (Korean union catalog)

• McCune-Reischauer system for Korean transliteration

• Korean McCune-Reischauer Romanization Dictionary (for both words and phrases)

• Unicode Standard for character encoding

• Character encoding in MARC21 records

A/V cataloging

• OLAC

• OLAC-L listserv

Music

• AllMusic Guide

• Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21 (2015) (Newer versions can be accessed through the RDA Toolkit.)

• Supplements to Best Practices for Music Cataloging Using RDA and MARC21 (2017) includes MARC record examples

• Best Practices for Using LCGFT for Music Resources (2019)

• Best Practices for Using LCMPT (MARC Field 382) (2019)

• Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG)

• MOUG-L archives

• Types of Composition for Use in Authorized Access Points: A Manual for Use with RDA

• Yale music cataloging links

• Yale music terms

Videos

• OLAC Best Practices for Cataloging DVD and Blu-ray Discs (2017)

• OLAC Best Practices for Cataloging Streaming Media (2018)

• Internet Movie Database

Maps

• Map scale calculator

Playaways

• OLAC Playaways and RDA

Serials

• CONSER

• CONSER Cataloging Manual (CCM)

Electronic resources

• PCC Provider-neutral E-resource MARC record Guidelines for electronic monographs, serials, and integrating resources

Video games

• OLAC Best Practices for Cataloging Video Games (2018)

Objects

• OLAC’s Best Practices for Cataloging Objects in RDA and Marc 21 (2020)