Best Practices for Overlaying
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Technical Services and Collection Management
Alma – Importing MARCIVE Records into Alma
Each month we receive an email outlining that we have available MARC Records from MARCIVE. Here’s what that email looks like: When we receive that email, we can obtain our MARC records by clicking on this highlighted link (note: the link changes EACH […]
Alma -Spine Labeling Steps – Using SpineOMatic
Materials to be labeled can be found on two trucks outside the door of the Processing Area. Truck labeled In Process is for materials new to the Libraries. For these, we do Quality Control and Spine Labeling. Truck labeled In Transit is for relabels and GOBI mistakes. Acquisitions has done all the quality control work; […]
Content notes – MULTIVOLUME CONTENTS EXAMPLES
If the number of physical volumes differs from the number of bibliographic volumes or if edition statements, dates etc. are needed, included in parentheses at end of title or statement of responsibility (work is The Cambridge ancient history, .b11906212): 505 1# v. 1, pt. 1. Prolegomena and prehistory / edited by I.E.S. Edwards, C.J. Gadd, […]
Content notes – Special situation: information not coming from titles of chapters
This is an alternate approach that can be used depending on how the materials are reported in the book and/or wishes of reference librarian. Use 520 2# (2 = Scope and content) Format the note so that important titles, entities, or events are keyword searchable. 520 2# Case histories of the following emergency evacuations and […]
Content notes – Examples of Pre-AACR2 format
Do not routinely upgrade such notes. Used .— in between titles If titles were written by different authors, author was given before or after title. If after, had a comma and “by” or similar word; if before, author’s name had a period separating it from title. (work is Essays about men, women, and books, .b10641130) […]
Content notes – RDA/AACR2 format
Marc 21 basic level is the standard format for all originally-entered content notes Use 505 0# For complete content Use 505 1# For incomplete content (not all are available) Use 505 2# For partial content (all available, but selectively listed) Use #–# in between titles. If titles written by different authors, list using #/# to […]
Contents Notes–Local practice
What triggers the need for contents notes? Supply a formal content note for all materials for which contents are requested on order slips. Because contents notes facilitate keyword searching in the catalog, the presence of an 856 content note URL does not serve as a replacement for content notes. If a 505 content note is […]
SCA Gift Books
ADDS CATALOGING Search Millennium first to make sure that the item in hand does not need to be added to a bibliographic record already in the catalog. Add bib location r to the bib. This will make the Millennium location multi. If you need to use an existing bib record, add the following note to […]
If and When Kronos Fails (For Student Workers)
Report to immediate supervisor (Library Specialist) any issue with clocking in and out. If Kronos gives an error message, report this as well. For instances when Kronos is not recording, or is incorrectly recording time, make sure to report to your supervisor when you arrive, when you clock in and out for lunch, and when […]