Resources for School Librarians - Index

Cataloging the Collection

Cataloging - Web Sites

• Cataloguing and Processing: A Resource for School Library Personnel - an excellent guide to cataloging from the Manitoba Department of Education and Training.
• The Cataloger's Reference Shelf - A collection of MARC manuals and other cataloging reference materials from The Library Company.
• The Library of Congress Classification Outline - by the Library of Congress. This is in pdf format.
• The Library of Congress Classification System : 6th Edition - This is in table format.
• Dewey Decimal Classification - News and information from Forrest Press, the publisher of the Dewey Classification.
• Dewey Decimals Summaries - From OCLC.
• 025.431 The Dewey Decimal Blog - "Everything you wanted to know about Dewey, but were afraid to ask".
• Map Dewey Classification to LC - for the conversion of Dewey numbers to LC.
• Map LC Classification to Dewey
• Guidelines to Standardized Cataloging for Children - by Joanna F. Fountain. Adaptations of cataloging policies for children through age 15.
• Library Cataloguing Aids - Links to a great many useful site compiled by Lynn LeGrow.
• Cataloging 101: Cataloging Made (Almost) Easy - An article on sources for cataloging records by Sandra Q. Williams in Knowledge Quest, Sept. 2008.
• Cataloging 101: Column 4 - An article on locating subject headings and Dewey numbers by Sandra Q. Williams in Knowledge Quest, Jan/Feb, 2008. This article has many links to useful cataloging web sites.
• How to Acquire Cataloging Tools - a fact sheet from the American Library Association.
• Cataloging Tools for Public and School Librarians - Links to helpful web sites.
• Cataloging for Jewish School Libraries
• The Library of Congress Online Catalog - Search for cataloging records at the Library of Congress and other libraries.
• The Free Library of Philadelphia - Search the online catalog or the Access Pennsylvania Database.
• Canadian Subject Headings - A list of subject headings on Canadian topics which complements the Library of Congress subject headings.
• Help! The New Cataloging Code is Coming - An introduction to Resource Development and Access which will replace AACR2. This is a pdf file.
• Introduction to Metadata - by Tony Gill et al.
• Metadata and Cataloging Online Resources - a bibliography of links to information by Steven J. Miller, 2004.
• A Full Resource Metadata Display for Resources for School Librarians - Thanks to the University of Queensland Libraries.
• Online Audiovisual Catalogers
• Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines - Revision of June 20, 2006.
• What is FRBR? - An explanation of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records may be obtained from this site.

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