Northeast Ohio Regional Library System
Day for Tech Services: Focused on Special Collections
Date/Time
8/14/2014
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Event Description
Geographic Member/Other Cost: $100
Full/CE Member Cost: $ 50
What's so Special about Special Collections Cataloging?
This workshop will provide a brief overview for technical services librarians of the main aspects of cataloging special collections materials. The focus will be on cataloging books as our starting point, but other formats can be discussed if there is interest among the group.
Lunch and a chance to share your challenges, successes and determine your future needs will follow the workshop.
Presenter: Kate Medicus, Special Collections Cataloger at Kent State University
Full/CE Member Cost: $ 50
What's so Special about Special Collections Cataloging?
This workshop will provide a brief overview for technical services librarians of the main aspects of cataloging special collections materials. The focus will be on cataloging books as our starting point, but other formats can be discussed if there is interest among the group.
Lunch and a chance to share your challenges, successes and determine your future needs will follow the workshop.
Presenter: Kate Medicus, Special Collections Cataloger at Kent State University
Location
Contact Person
Melissa Lattanzi
(phone: 330-655-0531)
(phone: 330-655-0531)
Details
We will allow time for a hands-on session and discussion. The presenter will bring items to catalog for practice and/or we can work on examples participants bring to class. Participants are encouraged to bring cataloging questions from their collections as well as items that need to be cataloged. (Of course, bring photocopies or scans in the case of rare or fragile materials).
Every library has some collection(s) that are "special," possibly because of a local history connection, a donor that is important to the community or institution, or perhaps a collecting strength in a particular area of the library's holdings. Whatever the reason, many libraries need to have enriched information in the library catalog that captures these connections and allows users to discover these special materials.
The morning will begin with a presentation that will cover:
Kate Medicus has been Special Collections Cataloger at Kent State University since 1993 where her primary responsibility is cataloging special collections materials in all formats and creating collection-level MARC records for archival collections. She is co-chair of the Special Collections and Archives Interest Group of ALAO. Prior to Kent State, she worked as the western languages cataloger at Ingalls Library of the Cleveland Museum of Art. She received an MLS and an MA in Art History from Indiana University, where she also received her first training in special collections working in the Manuscripts Department at the Lilly Library. She attended Deborah J. Leslie’s Rare Book Cataloging class at Rare Book School in 2006.
Every library has some collection(s) that are "special," possibly because of a local history connection, a donor that is important to the community or institution, or perhaps a collecting strength in a particular area of the library's holdings. Whatever the reason, many libraries need to have enriched information in the library catalog that captures these connections and allows users to discover these special materials.
The morning will begin with a presentation that will cover:
- Does your library have a rare book/special collections cataloging policy?
- The special collections and rare book cataloger's toolbox
- The "special" bibliographic record in a nutshell
- Form/Genre terms and the RBMS thesauri
- Relationship indicators are not a completely new thing!
- Is it possible to hold an entire session at a conference about one MARC field? (hint: the answer is yes!)
Kate Medicus has been Special Collections Cataloger at Kent State University since 1993 where her primary responsibility is cataloging special collections materials in all formats and creating collection-level MARC records for archival collections. She is co-chair of the Special Collections and Archives Interest Group of ALAO. Prior to Kent State, she worked as the western languages cataloger at Ingalls Library of the Cleveland Museum of Art. She received an MLS and an MA in Art History from Indiana University, where she also received her first training in special collections working in the Manuscripts Department at the Lilly Library. She attended Deborah J. Leslie’s Rare Book Cataloging class at Rare Book School in 2006.
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