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This comprehensive annotated webliography describes online cataloging resources that are free to use, currently updated, and of high quality. The major aim of this webliography is to provide assistance for catalogers who are new to the profession, unfamiliar with cataloging specific formats, or unable to access costly print and subscription resources. The annotated resources include general websites and webpages, databases, workshop presentations, streaming media, and local documentation. The scope of the webliography is limited to resources reflecting traditional cataloging practices using the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition, RDA: Resource Description and Access, and MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) standards. Non-MARC metadata schemas like Dublin Core are not covered. Most components of cataloging are represented in this webliography, such as authority control, classification, subject headings, and genre terms. Guidance also is provided for cataloging miscellaneous formats including sound and videorecordings, streaming media, e-books, video games, graphic novels, kits, rare materials, maps, serials, realia, government documents, and music.
Catalogers today face numerous challenges in their work - ever-changing formats of items to catalog; keeping up with new cataloging rules and standards; lack of additional catalogers to help with training and workflow; and minimal budgets to purchase cataloging-related resources. In addition, today's librarians with a library and information science degree may not have taken cataloging courses as part of their curricula, leading to uncertainty concerning which resources to use when facing cataloging issues.
To assist new and veteran catalogers in identifying and evaluating a variety of cataloging resources available online, the authors have developed an annotated webliography. The authors' intent in creating this webliography is to help beginning catalogers in the field, save catalogers time with a selection of practical one-stop resources, pinpoint free resources for libraries with limited budgets and staff, and update the literature of annotated bibliographies and webliographies for catalogers.
The scope of the webliography is limited to resources used in traditional cataloging based on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2nd edition (AACR2), RDA: Resource Description and Access, and MAchine Readable Cataloging (MARC) standards.1 Therefore, the webliography does not cover Dublin Core, Encoded Archival Description, and other non-MARC metadata schémas.
Why a Webliography?
Numerous annotated bibliographies related to cataloging have been written over the past several decades. Spe+cific topics covered in these annotated bibliographies have included...