CONSER's Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop

Thursday - Friday, November 5 & 6 2009
8:30: Check-in and registration
9:00-4:00
Nylink Offices, Albany

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Registration is limited to 25 participants.

Cost: Members $250 | Non-members $300

Registration includes continental breakfast and materials.

This course provides the basic principles of serials cataloging for original and copy cataloging for print and electronic serials. The course focuses on the elements contained in the CONSER core record, including appropriate MARC 21 tagging, as well as problem-solving and decision-making relative to serials cataloging. All materials are based on the CONSER Editing Guide and CONSER Cataloging Manual.

Course topics include:
Original and copy cataloguing of print serials
Cataloguing remote access and direct access electronic serials
Subject analysis and classification of serials
Trends in serials cataloguing

The course is a two-day workshop combining lecture with exercises and time for questions, answers and discussion, designed for beginning serials cataloguers and other library staff.

Instructors:

  • Marguerite (Maggie) Horn is Library Systems Implementation Specialist at the SUNY Office of Library and Information Services. She has over 30 years experience as a serials cataloguer and has worked as a trainer for SCCTP (Serials Cataloguing Cooperative Training Program) since inception.
  • Everett Allgood is Associate Curator, Technical Services and Original Cataloging, New York University Libraries.

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CONSER's Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop
11/5/09 - 11/6/09
Nylink Offices
Albany, NY