Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Viewing a library record, regular and MARC format



Below is a record of a book from our library here at UC Berkeley:


Title : Towards local management of mineral resources in Zimbabwe : an analysis of opportunities and constraints / Emmanuel Manzungu and Ellen Sithole.

Author  Manzungu, Emmanuel.

Published [Harare] : Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, [1999]

Location  Main (Gardner) Stacks

Call NoHD9506.Z552 M36 1999

Status AVAILABLE

Description  60 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.

Note  "November 1999."

Bibliography  Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects

Mineral industries -- Zimbabwe.

Mines and mineral resources -- Zimbabwe.

Conservation of natural resources -- Zimbabwe.

Added Author Sithole, Ellen.


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Note the components: title, author, added author, publishing information, call number of the item, notes and subject headings.


Below is the same record in MARC format:


001    49214935 
005    20030724  TAPE OCLC0724: 0973 
008    030725s1999    rh a     b   f000 0 eng   
009    Reclvl: f Addate: 030725 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080606 Modid:
       XRF 
010      2001311568 
035    GLADN185083379 
040    DLC|cDLC|dCUY 
042    lcode 
043    f-rh--- 
050 00 HD9506.Z552|bM36 1999 
082 00 333.8/5/096891|221 
090    HD9506.Z552|bM36 1999 
100 1  Manzungu, Emmanuel. 
245 10 Towards local management of mineral resources in Zimbabwe 
       :|ban analysis of opportunities and constraints /
       |cEmmanuel Manzungu and Ellen Sithole. 
260    [Harare] :|bCentre for Applied Social Sciences, University
       of Zimbabwe,|c[1999] 
300    60 leaves :|bill. ;|c30 cm. 
500    "November 1999." 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
650  0 Mineral industries|zZimbabwe. 
650  0 Mines and mineral resources|zZimbabwe. 
650  0 Conservation of natural resources|zZimbabwe. 
700 1  Sithole, Ellen. 
935    GLADN185083379 
957    OCLC xref loaded 20110805; IR: 739279490 
994    02|bCUY 

MARC is an acronym for "MAchine-Readable Cataloging." This is the format in which bibliographic records are created or exported into individual libraries. In other words, the format used by library staff who catalog books. In this case the numbers in the left column represent different fields, the most imp0rtant being:

020 = ISBN number
050 or 090 = call number
100 = author
110 = corporate author
111 = conference or congress (if book is a collection of conference papers, for example
245 = title and author or editor
260 = publishing information
300 = physical description of the item
500 = notes of significance about this item
504 = notes here if bibliographic references and index are included.
600, 610 and 650 = subject headings
700 = co-author or editor
710 = corporate body which either sponsored or issued the item.

What I describe here is for non-fictional works. Literature -- poems, novels, short stories, etc. -- normally do not include subject headings, unless they are literary works focused on a historical topic, but otherwise include all the fields listed above.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Why the blog title?

I call this blog Cataloging thoughts 2 because my original blog, Cataloging Thoughts is no longer accessible to me at least for now. It can be viewed at: http://catalogingthoughts.blogspot.com/
I blogged there for about six months, from Dec. 2009 to June 2010. I am now resuming it, with some random thoughts and tips on cataloging books for my university library.