Page History

Cataloging work-supply

• Ordered and received by MonoAcq
• Gifts received by MonoAcq
• Chomsky gift material
• SERMs
• Problems and Recat
• Government Documents
• Rush material
• Physics Reading Room
• Distribution of Incoming Monograph Materials
• Conference proceedings: when to forward to Sercat

Searching in Connexion

• 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
• Contributed copy
  • Fixed field
  • Variable fields
  • Description
  • Access Points
  • Series interim procedures
• 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

Non-book materials

• Audiobooks
  • Sources of materials
  • Searching for audiobooks in OCLC Connexion

• Cartographic Materials
  • Introduction
  • Incoming cartographic materials
    • Sources of materials
    • Types of materials
  • Searching in OCLC Connexion client
  • Editing guidelines
    • General
    • Fixed fields
    • Variable fields
  • Physical processing: barcodes and call numbers
  • Post-editing processing guidelines

• 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
  •  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 records into edit mode
  • Moving the order
  • Get rid of brief ADM and BIB records
  • Link item and 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

Instructional materials

• How to edit a wiki page
• How to insert a picture on a wiki page
• How to insert a link on a wiki page
• How to create a wiki page
• IMF WPs
• NBER WPs
• Donahue shipment preparation

• How to create a wiki template (Administrators only)
• MonoDoc wiki template