Cataloging for non-Catalogers

Wherever you work in the library, knowledge of some basic cataloging will enhance and improve your skills in library work. This will serve as a brief introduction to cataloging for non-catalogers and will help you to understand cataloging's purpose, its goals, and some of its terminology, especially the changes you may have been seeing with the implementation of RDA recently. Join catalogers Christopher Hill, McKenna Leckrone and Jessica C. Williams for an hour of focus on the catalog and bibliographic records. MARC may seem intimidating, but there are rules and guidelines that help catalogers create bibliographic records that make it possible for you and patrons to find the exact material you are looking for.

As a result of this program, attendees will learn:

• The catalog from both staff and user view
• Bibliographic records
• The ins and outs of MARC
• Authority records

Who will benefit from this program:

• All staff that interacts with Patrons
• All Circulation Staff Members
• Technical Services staff not directly cataloging

Instructors: 

All presenters are current leadership for the Ohio Library Council Technical Services Division Action Council.

Chris Hill is a Cataloging Librarian II with Greene County Public Library and has held this position since December 2011. He has been cataloging library materials since 2003 and has been working in libraries since 1996.

McKenna Leckrone is the Head Cataloger at the Avon Lake Public Library near Cleveland, Ohio. She has been working in libraries for almost 20 years and began her career as a public library page, eventually working in circulation, reference, marketing, technology and IT, and now cataloging.

Jessica C. Williams has been a cataloger at Cleveland Public Library since 2023. Formerly Information Services Librarian at Tiffin-Seneca Public Library, she transitioned to Technical Services Librarian-Cataloging at T-SPL in 2022. She started in libraries as a public library page in 2000.

To register for this webinar please follow this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1317728204445/WN_4VB4rHZJTVeDzL-FANW_gw. Sessions are free and available only to members of the Michigan library community. Registrants will receive instructions and a link to attend the session directly from PCI after they register.

PCI Webinars are recorded and available to members of the Michigan library community in the Library of Michigan's Niche Staff Skills Academy about a week after they air. New webinars will be in the New category for several weeks. You do not need to register for a webinar in order to view it later in the Staff Skills Academy.

This project is made possible by grant funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the State of Michigan through the Library of Michigan.