Transcript Cataloguing update

Library systems and RDA
RDA Cataloguing Seminars
September 2012
Overview
• What your library needs to consider if you
intend to use RDA records
• Where your vendor gets involved
New MARC fields
• How do you identify these:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/RDAinMARC-7-12.html
http://www.loc.gov/marc/status.html
• Tag tables
Indexing
• Indexing of the data in new fields and
subfields required to make the data
searchable
• Three questions to answer:
– What can I do?
– What can my systems staff do?
– What does my vendor need to do?
Example
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novelist
Stretton,
Charlotte (3)
Stretton, Charlotte, illustrator (2)
Stretton, Charlotte, novelist (6)
Charlotte
Stretton, Charlotte, poet (5)
subfield
poet$e
indexed
Stretton
• Stretton, Charlotte (16)
illustrator
subfield $e
not indexed
Display
• Display of new fields and subfields
• Display of new data elements: content,
carrier and media type
• Think about how indexing choices affect
display
Stretton, Charlotte (16)
– Illustrator (2)
– Novelist (6)
– Poet (5)
Example of one way of
displaying results if
you choose to index
Author Browse
Indexing and Display in action
Discussion: GMD to Content,
Carrier and Media types
Content type
Carrier type
• cartographic image
• audio disc
• performed music
• online resource
[videorecording
: DVD] reel
• spoken word
• microfilm
• text
• sheet
[videorecording
Blu-ray]
• three-dimensional
form
• :volume
• two-dimensional moving
• videocassette
[electronic
resource
:
sound recording]
image
• videodisc
Media type
• audio
• computer
Media type
Media type
• microform
• unmediated
• projected
• video
Major vendors
• Already informed about RDA
• Some have implemented new MARC
fields
• Further work to be done
Rasco
(NOTEbooks)
2%
Aurora Information
Technology
(Aurora)
1%
System vendors
vendors & software
System
Napier Computer
Systems (NCL
Vernon Systems
Library System)
2%
2%
Innovative
Interfaces
(Millenium)
3%
Contec (.eLM, C2)
3%
Koha
3%
TLC (Carl)
1%
Massey University
(MUSAC)
3%
Softlink (Liberty,
Oliver, ALICE)
27%
SirsiDynix
(Symphony,
Unicorn, Horizon,
Dynix)
15%
Access-IT Software
(Access-IT)
5%
Infospecs
(DBTextworks,
CSTextworks,
Genie)
14%
Civica (Spydus)
6%
Ex Libris (Aleph,
Voyager)
13%
Small and local vendors
• Not everyone uses a major international
vendor
• NLNZ will contact NZ-based vendors
• Libraries should contact smaller overseas
vendors directly