Monday, January 26, 2015

2015 schedule: Fundamentals of Cataloging (ALCTS)

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/webcourse/foc/ol_templ



2015 Sessions
  • Session 1: February 23 - April 3
  • Session 2: April 27 - June 5
  • Session 3: July 20 - August 28
  • Session 4: September 14 - October 23
  • Session 5: November 9 - December 18

Six-week online course that is a basic primer for library cataloging concepts and practices. The course was written and developed by Vicki Sipe, Catalog Librarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. It covers:
•    principles underlying cataloging practice,
•    examples illustrating the principles in practice,
•    tools used in cataloging practice such as AACR2, RDA, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Library of Congress Classification, MARC, OCLC, BIBFRAME, and
•    processes used by catalogers in creating bibliographic records

$109 ALCTS members; $139 nonmembers