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Original cataloging is done when no copy catalog record exists for an item. It involves 15 detailed steps to fully catalog an item from scratch according to established rules. This complicated process determines various attributes like the author, title, publication details, and assigns appropriate subject headings and call numbers. Original cataloging takes significant time but ensures complete and accurate metadata is created for items not previously cataloged.

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Imd223 Individual Assignment

Original cataloging is done when no copy catalog record exists for an item. It involves 15 detailed steps to fully catalog an item from scratch according to established rules. This complicated process determines various attributes like the author, title, publication details, and assigns appropriate subject headings and call numbers. Original cataloging takes significant time but ensures complete and accurate metadata is created for items not previously cataloged.

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ORIGINAL

CATALOGING
IMD223 Introduction to cataloguing

Original cataloging is used when copy catalog information


is not available for an item. In this case, the librarian does
all of the cataloging necessary from scratch. Correct
original cataloging is a complicated and time-consuming
process that is bound by many rules.

15 Steps in 1. Determine the


script and
Original
language of the
Cataloging title page and text

If the item is not in


2. Determine the standard Modern English,
format and it can still be cataloged; it
number of Bib
will simply require more
time and work.
records needed

Determining the physical


format of the item to be
cataloged will identify
3. Search again(
which Bib format input
screen to use in OCLC.
or further )
Try some searches that
Acquisitions probably didn't
try, such as the Library of
4. Select author
Congress or a large research
library.
and form of
name

5. Select order and


e.g Single author, 2-3 completeness of
authors, More than 3
authors, Editors/no
;
title include edition
statement
authors and Multiple
credits In most cases, any
information that is not
directly taken from the Chief
6. Note imprint
Source of Information goes
in brackets.

7.
“Imprint” means “place of
publication (generally a Note physical
city), name of publisher or description
producer, and date of
publication.” Field 300 is for the physical
description.
For a book, this means the
paging, an illustration
statement (if any), and the
height (and width if greater
than the height or less than
half the height) in centimeters.

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8. Add additional
ORI
fields for Maps
and Serials GINAL

Serials, Maps and Scores CAT


are the only materials
which employ the
materials-specific details
ALOG
area.

9. Put in series
statement and
tracing

10. Add any If your item belongs to a


additional fields , series, there is probably a
series note somewhere on
as needed
the item

Put the ISBN in field 020,


or ISSN in 022. For 13-

11.
digit ISSN, use the 024
field with first indicator 3. Add any
appropriate
notes

There are a number of


notes which may be

12. Select
added to a given Bib
record. These may differ
appropriate
from one format to the
subject headings next, and some will be
used much more often
than others
There are a variety of
subject heading types –
topical, personal,
corporate, geographic,
and genre 13. Code the
“fixed fields ”
“Fixed fields” have a
predetermined length

14. 006
Add a
and can contain only

and or / 007 specific, coded


information related
directly to the data in the
rest of the Bib record.
The 007 and 006 fields are
coded fields indicating
material format and its
qualitie
15. Assign a
Call Number

Call numbers are assigned


by the Original Cataloger
for most items, with the
exception of Government
Documents, media and
scores.

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