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Catalogue records are all about creating connections:
- Connecting people with resources and information that meet their needs.
- Connecting a resource with others that have similar content, are in the same series, are by the same creator.
- Connecting records in one bibliographic database to another through use of recognized standards.
- Connecting data from various sources into a single record.
Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) provides catalogue records to school libraries in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and across the globe. SCIS cataloguers create records according to SCIS Standards for Cataloguing and Data Entry, preferring to have the item in hand when doing so. Resources are mostly received from schools and publishers. During much of 2020, cataloguers worked from home, with limited access to physical resources. Data for records had to be obtained from sources other than the physical item. SCIS cataloguers rose to the challenge of cataloguing without item in hand, sourcing and connecting metadata from a wide range of online sites and data repositories into one SCIS record.
This presentation will describe and evaluate the range of sources of data with which cataloguers connected to build SCIS records. Sources ranged from publisher and distributor websites to literary databases to union catalogues. Library and information technicians who undertake original or copy cataloguing will be interested in some of the excellent and less useful sites that SCIS cataloguers have found.
Catalogue records are all about creating connections:
- Connecting people with resources and information that meet their needs.
- Connecting a resource with others that have similar content, are in the same series, are by the same creator.
- Connecting records in one bibliographic database to another through use of recognized standards.
- Connecting data from various sources into a single record.
Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) provides catalogue records to school libraries in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and across the globe. SCIS cataloguers create records according to SCIS Standards for Cataloguing and Data Entry, preferring to have the item in hand when doing so. Resources are mostly received from schools and publishers. During much of 2020, cataloguers worked from home, with limited access to physical resources. Data for records had to be obtained from sources other than the physical item. SCIS cataloguers rose to the challenge of cataloguing without item in hand, sourcing and connecting metadata from a wide range of online sites and data repositories into one SCIS record.
This presentation will describe and evaluate the range of sources of data with which cataloguers connected to build SCIS records. Sources ranged from publisher and distributor websites to literary databases to union catalogues. Library and information technicians who undertake original or copy cataloguing will be interested in some of the excellent and less useful sites that SCIS cataloguers have found.
