Internet Resources for Library Catalogers

Cataloging meta-pages

Online Tools and resources (Georgetown University)
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/catalog/tools/

Hyper-techs: technical services moves to the World Wide Web (Bringham Young University)
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/hypertechs/indexl.html

Resources for Catalogers (UNC)
http://www.lib.unc.edu/cat/class.htm

Cataloging and Acquisitions Resources (Pittsburgh)
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~cbrush/cataloging.html

General Cataloging Tools

USMARC Concise Format for Holdings Data
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdhome.html
How to handle elements of single part, multipart, and serial items, using the MARC format.

MARC 21 Concise Holdings: Holdings Data--General Information
http://www.loc.gov/marc/holdings/echdgenr.html
General guidelines for using the latest edition of the MARC format.

MARC 21 Authority Data Format
http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html
Guidelines for using the Marc-21 authority record format.

Library of Congress Authority File
http://lcauth.dra.com/lcauth
The authority database of the Library of Congress (not OCLC), available through a web interface.

CONSER: Serials Cataloging Issues
http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/issues.html
An overview of current issues in serials cataloging.

USMARC Format for Holdings Data
http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/hold0654.htm
Another quick reference guide for the MARC format.

Brief Government Document Cataloging Cheat Sheet
http://www.slc.bc.ca/cheats/briefs.htm
A quick reference for cataloging government documents.

ALA-LC Romanization Tables
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
Romanization tables for many non-Latin alphabets (mostly in PDF files).

Cutter-Sanborn tables
http://www.librarian.co.kr/extr/8-5cutter.htm

Cataloging Electronic Resources

Guidelines for the Use of Field 856
http://www.loc.gov/marc/856guide.html
Formal guidelines for the use of the 856 field, a MARC tag specifically designed to for storing Internet related information.

Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide; Nancy B. Olson, Editor
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/9256cat/toc.htm
This is a very good "quick reference" work for catalogers dealing with Internet files and other types of electronic media.

Distinguishing Cartographic Materials on Computer File Carriers from other Materials on Computer File Carriers
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/cfmap.html
This provides guidelines for cataloging cartographical computer information, and distinguishing it from other types of computer files.

Internet Cataloging and Access Projects
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/cataloging/links/projects.html
A meta page of various Internet cataloging projects.

Specific Electronic Collections

The Big Picture: Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/BigPic.htm
A front end for a variety of Web and non-Web Internet accessible databases.

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alex/alex-index.html
The Alex catalog is one of the older collection of electronic texts available on the Internet, and is certainly one of the best known. A variety of textual items can be located here.

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
The UVA Extext center is one of the most ambitious electronic cataloging projects in existence. This site provides a wide variety of resources for people who are interested in this sort of activity.

Gutenberg Project Index
http://promo.net/pg/
One of the largest collections of Internet text files available; has been in operation since the early 1990's, in one form or another.

Other useful Librarian tools

Selected Cataloging Tools: Acronyms
http://www.slc.bc.ca/cheats/acronyms.htm
A list of some of the more common cataloging-related acronyms used in printed publications and on the Internet.

Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/
This site isn't restricted to cataloging. It points to resources that are useful to all types of librarians.

The Argus Clearinghouse
http://www.clearinghouse.net/
The Argus Clearinghouse contains links to meta-pages on a wide variety of topics. It's almost a "Yahoo" for librarians.

Browse the Internet by Subject
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/srchtool/browse.htm
This page points to a variety of tools useful for searching the Internet by subject. The popular meta pages and engines are provided, as well as some other, subjectspecific tools.

The Scout Report
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/index.html
The Scout Report is a periodic electronic publication that is useful for keeping informed of developments on the Internet. It is targeted toward librarians and information professionals.

Search Engines Compared
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/srchtool/engines.htm
Many of the various search engines have different strengths and weaknesses, and this page addresses some of these.