Page History

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• MIT custom macros for searching
  • ISBN macro
  • IMF working papers macro
  • NBER macro
• Connexion command line and keywork boxes
• Match points for records
• Choosing among multiple records
• LC vs. non-LC copy

Physical Processing

• Books
  • Placement of barcodes
  • Transcription of call number  
  • Other
• Non-Western language books (Arabic, Japanese, Farsi, etc.)
• Accompanying materials
  • Barcodes
  • Music: Scores with parts
  • Call numbers
  • Terms for accompanying material
  • Computer disks
• Special formats
  • Placement of barcodes
  • Transcription of call number
  • Other

Monograph Editing Guidelines

• LC/PCC copy
  • Fixed field
  • Variable fields
  • Description
  • Access Points
  • Series interim procedures---not yet finalized (Oct. 2006)
• LC/PCC CIP
  • Fixed field
  • Variable fields
  • Description
  • Access Points
  • Series interim procedures
  ---not yet finalized (Oct. 2006)
• Contributed

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• copy
  • Fixed field
  • Variable fields
  • Description
  • Access Points
  • Series interim procedures
  ---not yet finalized (Oct. 2006)
• LC exceptions
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LC exceptions

• Added Entries for MIT Names
• Bibliographies/Z Classification
• Classification: PZ1-PZ4
• Exhibition Catalogs for MIT Museums
• Later Editions
• N class
• Microform Reproductions
• TR class
• T171: works by and about MIT

Conferences and classed together series

• Cataloging guidelines for monograph conference proceedings for Engineering and Science
  • Introduction
  • Summary
  • Guidelines
  • Searching guidelines when no call number is given
  • Materials Research Society symposia

• • Special situations
    • Library-supplied call number
    • Multiple conference call numbers
    • Hierarchical conference relationships
• Unnamed conferences for Barker
• Call Numbers for Classed Together Multi-Part Sets

Other cataloging guidelines

• Work Letters: A Summary of LC Practice
  • The Work Letter "b"
  • The Work Letter "a"
  • Other Work Letters/Other Usage
• Varying Form of Title: 246

FASTCAT

• Triage
• Fastcat in Connexion
• Next-day shelflisting
• What isn't Fastcat?
• The Fastcat macro

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• • Physical processing: barcodes and call numbers

• CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs
  • Sources of materials
  • Searching for CD-ROMs/DVD-ROMs in OCLC Connexion

• Microforms
  • • Barcoding
    • Call number
    • Continuations
    • Sending microforms to the libraries

• • Works Published Both As Book and As Microform: What To Do
  • Microform Editing Guidelines
    • Fixed Fields 
    • Variable Fields

• Music Materials
  • Types of materials (in descending order of frequency)
  • Sources of materials

• Videos (Non-Music)
  • Introduction
  • Editing guidelines
    • Fixed fields
    • Variable fields
    • Feature Films
    • Assigning call numbers and subject headings to feature film copy

Working in Aleph

• Precats
  • Using the precat template
  • Creating a Precat record via Worldcat
  • Non-Roman Precats

• Continuations: editing the bib. record

• Moving Orders from Brief Records to Full Catalog Records
  • Getting

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• • records into

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• • edit mode
  • Moving the

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• • order
  • Get rid of brief ADM and BIB records
  • Link

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• • item and

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• • holding
  • Additional steps for continuations

• How to remove bibliographic records
• Deleting item records
• Deleting "canceled" items
• Decisions made during migration to Aleph
  • MCM in the 852 field
  • 793's

Additional workflows and procedures

• "Bound-withs"
  • Cataloging items in OCLC first
• Error Reports to OCLC
• IEEExplore
  • Conference publications
  • Seminar digests (also known as Colloquia or Conference proceedings)
• MIT Technical Reports
  • Technical reports searching and verification
• NBERs
  • Special handling
• Preservation Photocopies
  • Silent Adds