| See also our Metadata page.
Library of Congress Pages and Tools
Library of Congress Standards
- MARC 21 XML Schema
"The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office is developing a framework for working with MARC data in a XML environment. This framework is intended to be flexible and extensible to allow users to work with MARC data in ways specific to their needs. The framework itself includes many components such as schemas, stylesheets, and software tools."
Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium
Confronting the Challenges of Networked Resources and the Web
Sponsored by the Library of Congress Cataloging Directorate
Cataloging Distribution Service
Cataloging Rules for the Description of Looseleaf Publications
With special emphasis on legal materials
From The Library Corporation, based on LC's 2nd ed (1989)
Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books
From The Library Corporation, based on LC's 2nd ed. (1991)
LC Cataloging Newsline
Online Newsletter of the Cataloging Directorate
Library of Congress Authorities
"...you can browse and display authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations. You can also download authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system. This service is being offered on a trial basis so that we can assess its usefulness and impact."
Library of Congress Cataloging
Home page of the Cataloging Directorate
Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Includes announcements, tools and documentation, policy papers and reports, notices of classification subclass changes
Library of Congress Classification Outline
Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office
- Z39.50 International Standard Maintenance Agency
"This page provides links to information about Z39.50 resources and about the development and maintenance of Z39.50 (existing as well as future versions) and the implementation and use of the Z39.50 protocol."
- ZING - Z39.50 International: Next Generation
"...covers a number of initiatives by Z39.50 implementors to make the intellectual/semantic content of Z39.50 more broadly available and to make Z39.50 more attractive to information providers, developers, vendors, and users, by lowering the barriers to implementation while preserving the existing intellectual contributions of Z39.50 that have accumulated over nearly 20 years."
Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRI)
Library of Congress Standards
"Several of the following are key standards used in the information community that are maintained by the Library of Congress. Their Web pages supply information on their maintenance and use. Other links below connect to information on the Library's collection of standards and key standards-settings organizations."
- Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
"As an XML schema, the "Metadata Object Description Schema" (MODS) is intended to be able to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records."
Library of Congress Subject Headings - Principles of Structure and Policies for Application
- From The Library Corporation, based on LC's 1990 edition
MARC Home Page
Includes news and announcements, documentation, DTDs, forums, Advisory Committee papers, reports, proposals, MARC distribution services, and MARC utilities
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
"A free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress."
Program for Cooperative Cataloging
"An international cooperative effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by providing useful, timely, and cost-effective cataloging that meets mutually-accepted standards of libraries around the world."
USMARC Code List for Languages
Changes since the 1996 edition
Additional Resources
The British Library
- Bibliographic Products and Services
- Bibliographic Standards
Sections include: Cataloguing Standards ; International Standard Serial Number ; Subject Access ; Exchange Formats ; USEMARCON ; Name Authority Control.
- UKMARC Manual - (dead link)
"Welcome to the online version of the complete UKMARC Manual, reflecting the cataloguing practice of the British Library in its interpretation of AACR2 and other related standards."
Canadian Subject Headings on the Web
" CSH is a list of standard subject headings (in English) on Canadian topics, which complements Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and is compatible with LCSH in its underlying principles...CSH on the Web provides subject authority records for Canadian Subject Headings. The records are a cumulation of the entire list of around 6000 Canadian subject headings, including all headings in Canadian Subject Headings, Third Edition (CSH3), 1992, and its supplements, and new and modified headings since the publication of Supplement 12, May 1999
National Library of Canada
Cataloger's Reference Shelf
Provides the following resources: USMARC information, bibliographic data, authority data, classification data, holdings data, USMARC code listings, CONSER Cataloging Manual, and other cataloging manuals, guides and LC tools.
Maintained by The Library Corporation
Cataloging & Metadata Resources
A Companion Site for Organizing Audiovisual and Electronic Resources, By Ingrid Hsieh-Yee.
Sections include Keeping Current ; Cataloging Aids & Tools ; Cataloging Standards ; Organizing Internet Resources.
Cataloging Electronic Newspapers
CONSER Cataloging Manual Module 33.18.
By Margaret Mering, Corinne Jacox, Beth Jedlicka, Nebraska Newspaper Project and edited by Bill Anderson, Library of Congress
Cataloging Japanese Language Materials
Part of Japanese Librarianship Resources
Cataloguer's Toolbox
A nice page containing quick reference resources, local tools, USMARC documentation, Library of Congress cataloging tools, other national library connections, A-G Canada cataloguing tools, OCLC tools, and links to other pages of interest
Maintained by Charley Pennell, Head, Catalog Dept. D.H. Library, North Carolina State University and Suzanne Ellison, Acting Head, Acquisitions/Cataloguing Division, Memorial University Library of Newfoundland
Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland - (dead link)
- Cataloguing the Hybrid Library - (dead link) (September 2001)
Papers and presentations from the seminar held at the National Library of Scotland.
Cataloguing Internet Resources
From a continuing education workshop held at the University of Toronto
Committee on Cataloging: Description & Access
American Library Association
"...the body within the American Library Association responsible for developing official ALA positions on additions to and revisions of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition, 1988 Revision. "
A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings
Getty Standards Program
"The Guide address two basic questions: What types of information should be recorded? [and] How should the information be recorded?"
Harmonization of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and Russian Cataloguing Rules
Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items
Download free pdf version.
"This new standard replaces both the Serial Holdings Standard Z39.44 and the Non-Serials Holdings standard Z39.57."
By National Information Standards Organization, 1999.
How to Submit a Rule Change Proposal to CC:DA
ALA Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access
Index Using Mathematics Subject Classification
"The index pages at this site are organized according to the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) scheme...Alternative hierarchies to sort through the mathematical landscape are provided..."
By David Rusin
National Library of Medicine [NLM] Classification
Fifth ed. 1994, Revised 1999.
"This edition incorporates all additions and changes as of 1999, including Index entries for several hundred new terms, published from 1994 to 1999 in the NLM Medical Subject Heading Annotated Alphabetic List (MeSH)."
REUSE Project- Aligning International Cataloging Standards
RLIN Searching for Technical Processing
"This guide explains searching for cataloging copy in RLIN, interpreting results, and choosing a suitable record--considering standardness, fullness, and source of cataloging--for export to a local system."
Subject Cataloging Manual: Classification 1st edition
The Library Corporation
Technical Processing Online Tools (TPOT)
Written for the UC San Diego Library system but contains a lot of useful general cataloging information
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