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Introduction
The purpose of this site is to provide useful information that will help the cataloger produce uniform MARC (machine readable cataloging) records for the SEKnFIND catalog. Our Integrated Library System, Koha, uses AACR2 (Anglo-American cataloging rules, 2nd ed.) protocols. As you are cataloging, a question mark (?) precedes each field. If you click on this (?) it will take you to a full explanation of the field, including those fields that require indicators.
RDA cataloging (see Wikipedia link) was fully implemented and adopted by the Library of Congress as of March 2013. Many records that you import will reflect RDA cataloging. RDA records will have words spelled out that are normally abbreviated in AACR2. In addition, the publishing information will show in the 264 field, leaving our 260 field empty. RDA adds three new fields in the 300s, the 336, 337, 338. Previously it was necessary to edit RDA records to make them AACR2 compatible. However, as of July 1, 2013 our local KOHA administrator modified the framework so that we can now accept imported RDA records and the information will be stored.
*Wikipedia link: Resource_Description_and_Access
Table of Contents (Click on the chapter description to open)
Chapter 1 SEKnFind Cataloging Policies
Chapter 2 000 Fields
Chapter 3 200 Fields/GMD list
Chapter 4 300 Fields
Chapter 5 400 Fields
Online Resources for Series
Chapter 6 500, 600, & 700 Fields
Chapter 7 800 & 900 Fields
Chapter 8 Cataloging a book – AACR2
Cataloging a book – RDA
Chapter 9 Cataloging a large print book
Chapter 10 Cataloging a DVD
Chapter 11 Cataloging a Blu-Ray
Chapter 12 Cataloging a Combo Pack
Chapter 13 Cataloging a Music CD
Chapter 14 Cataloging an Audio Cassette
Chapter 15 Cataloging a CD audiobook
Chapter 16 Cataloging a Book+Audio Combo
Chapter 17 Cataloging an MP3 CD
Chapter 18 Cataloging a Playaway (audio)
Chapter 19 Cataloging a Playaway (video)
Chapter 20 Cataloging a Television series – Complete
Cataloging a Television series – Broken Apart
Chapter 21 Cataloging a Video game
Chapter 22 Cataloging Terminology