imc week 9

• Copy cataloging


  The process of adapting an existing catalog record prepared by another library or agency
• Sources of copy cataloging

  • National/Union catalog
  • Shared-cataloging network/consortia
  • CIP
• The basic cataloging process

  1. Acquisition

  2. Search for cataloging information

  3. Need to modify the record?

  4. Do original cataloging/ex-novo cataloging

  5. Modify records

  6. Save the record
• In today's library environment, catalogers in local libraries make a heavy use of bibliographic records prepared elsewhere
• National Bibliographic Control (NBC)


  Records done by other countries
• Examples of NBC records

  • LCC
  • British National Bibliographies
  • Malaysia National Bibliographies (KIK)
• Shared-cataloging network


  An association of libraries with the main purpose of sharing resources including cataloging information
• CIP


  Cataloging-In-Publication data prepared by National Bibliographic Agency
• The task in copy cataloging

  1. Searching

  2. Downloading

  3. Editing

  4. Local record creation

  5. Authority control

  6. Services to facilitate inter-library loan
• National Bibliographies/Union Catalog are already discussed in Chapter 2 - Bibliographic Control
• Bibliographic utilities


  Computer service organizations that maintain large databases of cataloging records and offer cataloging support services and related products to libraries
• Functions of bibliographic utilities

  • Serve member libraries with high-quality cataloguing information and related products or services for resource sharing and cooperation
  • Provide concurrent access to the bibliographic databases on time-sharing basis, and allow member libraries contribute records of their own collection to the union catalogues
  • Maintain the standard of bibliographic record format, adopted by the national or international standardization bodies
• OCLC


  The largest and best-known bibliographic utility in the world
• OCLC


  • Nonprofit, membership-based organization
  • Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, USA
  • Initially founded as 'Ohio College Library Center' in 1967
  • Expanded to non-academic libraries in Ohio in 1972 and then to the national level of United States in 1973
  • Became an international organization in early 1980s and changed its name to 'Online Computer Library Center, Inc.' in 1981
  • Founded by Frederick G. Kilgour, who was President and Chief Executive Officer of OCLC from 1967 to 1980
• OCLC's objectives


  To establish, maintain and operate a computerized library network accessible worldwide<|>To promote the evolution of library use, of libraries themselves and of librarianship<|>To provide processes and products for the benefit of library users and libraries<|>To increase availability of library resources to individual library patrons<|>To reduce the rate-of-rise of library per-unit costs<|>To provide ease access to and use of the ever-expanding body of worldwide scientific, literary and educational knowledge and information
• Difference between national libraries and bibliographic utilities

  National libraries operate within the nation they serve and maintain national bibliographic database created by the library itself, fully supported by the government<|>Bibliographic utilities have no national boundaries, maintain union bibliographic database contributed by member libraries, and run independently supported by members
• CIP


  Cataloging in Publication record prepared by the National Bibliographic Agency for a book that has not yet been published
• CIP's contribution


  Act as a bridge to the library book buying market for publishers<|>Alerting service enabling selectors to identify books of interest to the user community for libraries
• Tutorial 8 - Copy cataloging

  1. Do research on Union Catalog

  2. Discuss in a small group

  3. Relate the Union Catalog with National Bibliographic Agency

  4. Include Copy Cataloging in the discussion
• The objectives of the tutorial are to understand the task of Union Catalog, comprehend the relationship with NBA, and connect with copy cataloging