I recently applied for a job as a rare book cataloger that opened up at the archives I currently intern at. I got an interview (yay!) but the archives director sent out a MARC records project to complete. I go to school for public history, so I don’t have much MARC experience, so I’ve been teaching myself how to do it. I feel pretty good about the tags and their meanings, but am still confused about how indicators work and the small field type table. Does anyone who’s experienced in MARC have any advice or tips? Thank you! :)

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I started cataloging my movies and shows to help sort them on my shelf. It just grew from there. Everytime I thrift some more I add them to the list. I’ve color coded the list orange for what I own and red for what I don't. I've listed genres, years released, directors/creators, production companies, actors, runtimes, episode counts, and Rotten Tomatoes scores. Every title is hyperlinked to its Wikipedia, IMDb, or a review page for more info. I added a button to randomly pick a movie for me and I also added pie charts to show the percentage make-up of genres and studios. My collection currently sits above 1020 movies and shows. Let me know what you think. Here's the whole thing.

P.S. Of course I have separate lists for my VHS tapes, CDs, cassettes, vinyl, books, and an unfinished videogame list.

Hello!

For our records to show in our discovery layer (EBSCO Discovery Service), each one needs to include either a 001 or a 035 field. We're not entirely sure which approach is best, but we're leaning toward the 035 field.

May I please ask if anyone has any experience with this? Have you added 001 and 035 fields to your MARC records to improve discoverability?

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Does LOC take suggestions on this kind of thing?

Can anyone think of a reason to have the cutter # and date in subfield $h instead of $i?

I work at a small academic library and our cataloging procedures state that for our juvenile fiction books we put JF, cutter #, and date all in the 852 $h.

For example, The Lightning Thief by Rick Rioridan:

852 1 # $h JF R58l 2005

The entirety of the call number is in $h and $i is empty. This is the only situation is exclusive to JF. Other sections have Dewey# in $h and the cutter# and date is in $i.

Thoughts? I’m thinking of changes our procedures so that JF is uniform with other sections.

Hi Everyone! I am a cataloger and my library has a lot of foreign language materials, there are a couple of catalogers other than me who have german, latin, and spanish covered but we need someone who can read french. My library has some professional development funds and I was hoping to find an online class for French Language for catalogers. A few cursory google searches haven't brought anything up, does anyone know of any organizations that offer something like this?

Hi everyone,
I’ve been tasked with collecting product catalogues from various brands and converting them into our in-house marketplace template. Most of these catalogues come in different formats, typically from Amazon, Nykaa, Myntra, or Shopify.

Right now, I’m manually mapping each column and adjusting the data to fit our template, which is super time-consuming.

Does anyone here know of a faster, easier, or more automated way to standardize and convert such catalogues? Maybe a tool,or Ai or anything

would really appreciate all the help i can get

also please let me know if there is any other community where i can post this cuz i am on a literal time crunch

My library is looking into outsourcing our cataloging and processing to vendors. Who do you all use and any reviews? We are a mid-size public library with 5 locations.

Specifically 9x16 vertical video, which quite frankly I know nothing about (gathering information on Reddit is about as close as I get to social media).

At my job in a nonprofit AV archive I've been tasked with coming up with metadata that would be useful for finding videos originally created as 9x16 for social media. We generally use LC terms for form and genre. I'm failing to understand how this would be anything other than either a promotional film (if created for advertising purposes) or video recording, but my manager (who is neither a librarian nor a cataloger) wants me to find a term that is social-media-centric.

I'm curious to learn how others have handled this? What sort of terms would be useful for someone looking for a 9x16 video?

Hi Everyone,

I’m currently working on a SaaS platform aimed at solving a common challenge I’ve observed throughout my 10+ years in the e-commerce industry.

While the product is still in development, we’re building something that can make a real difference for internal teams working with data and content workflows.

If you're curious, open to collaboration, or would like early access once it's ready, feel free to connect or drop me a message.

I would love to hear everybody's experience with cataloging and working in the field.

I'm currently 22, working in a small town library and I manage the adult section as a whole (fiction & non-fiction, dewey based). I'm planning on starting my bachelor's next fall and then my masters in library science after that, to eventually go into metadata.

I love the cataloging side of my job but eventually will prefer being remote. I want to hear different points of views on metadata and cataloging, pros and cons and whatnot. Experience in metadata specifically would also be great to hear about.

There hasn't been an active post in a year, so here we go. I'll be working on new rules.

A bit about me (the new moderator), I'm a library director who also handles cataloging. We moved from Dewey to Bisac.

Hi all,

I inherited a graphic novel collection that is all under 741.5. All spine labels read 741.5 and the first three letters of the author's last name. Fiction and nonfiction all have the same number. I want to keep the collection somewhat together but I need to designate fiction from nonfiction. I don't even know if Manga is supposed to have a special number? Science? Biography? History? I am confused and this is not my area of expertise.

What do you suggest for a middle school library? Please help.

Hi all! I'm working in Sierra, and the record is displaying cover art for a book that is definitely not the book the record is for. I thought there was a MARC field for that in the bib record, but I'm not able to find it. Does anyone know how to change or just get rid of this picture?

We all know about the Dewey Decimal System for books. But how would we start to catalog websites? Or software code repositories on github?

Los índices deben verse como una empresa y no utilizarse. La lista estructurada puede, sin mucho esfuerzo, ayudar a construir una marca. Además, las estructuras de lista bien pensadas con datos aplicables pueden ayudar a las Venta Por Catalogo USA. Puede afectar la elección de compra de los clientes al abusar abiertamente de los artículos del inventario.

Hello all!

I've recently started an undergraduate cataloging course and was given an assignment to reach out to catalogers and discover some common issues that pop up in cataloging. Of you had to pick 1 common issue that frequents cataloging work, what would it be?

If you think you have a unique problem specific to where you work, I would love to hear that too!

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