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Cataloguing for Beginners: RDA and (a little bit of) MARC
Friday 5 April: 10am to 4pm
UWE Frenchay Campus Library, Room 2C19
Cost: CILIP member £40; non-member £50 (prices inclusive of VAT and refreshments/lunch catering)
Event type: Full-day interactive, workshop-style training for those who have never used RDA or who would like to refresh their knowledge (though please note that the course is designed for beginners unfamiliar with RDA). Attendees with be provided with handouts and activities to complete on the day, and will be emailed a short 'quiz' beforehand - to be completed in advance - about their existing knowledge of cataloguing using RDA and how it is used in their own workplaces. Attendees should bring along their completed quizzes on the day and be prepared to contribute examples to group work and discussions.
Attendees are welcome to bring their own computing devices, though PC access is not required for the course.
Further detail:
Following their successful “Introduction to Cataloguing” training day in Exeter in 2017, Anne Welsh and Kate Whaite return to CILIP South West with another day for those brand new to cataloguing (or those whose cataloguing training is so far in the dim and distant past that they don’t mind starting from scratch again).
The focus is on core principles and on analysing a wide range of examples to identify the key fields we would create, including author(s), title, publisher details, physical description, notes and a little bit of subject analysis. You don’t need computer skills, or to know MARC coding, but you will leave knowing how to navigate RDA, MARC and some basic Library of Congress Subject Headings, and with handouts giving you crib sheets for the main fields, the main jargon, and where to go to keep your new skills up-to-date.
Learning objectives: To understand the basic principles of cataloguing using Resource Description and Access (RDA) and how these are expressed when inputting information into cataloguing fields. A small amount of information about MARC will also be covered.
Refreshments: Morning and afternoon tea/coffee; lunch (please inform of any dietary requirements)
Programme leaders: Anne Welsh (author of Practical Cataloguing, Facet: 2012) and Katharine Whaite (House of Lords).
PKSB elements covered (for those undertaking professional registration): 1.5 Cataloguing and resource description (Creating descriptions of information resources, based on standard rules and formats). Certificates of course attendance will be available afterwards. Please contact chair.sw@cilip.org.uk if you wish to receive a certificate.
Full programme:
10:00 Welcome
10:10 Introductions: If you can, please ask someone (a cataloguer, or your manager, or a colleague who has been there longer than you have) at your work which Library Management System you use to catalogue, which standards (e.g. AACR2, RDA) you use, and if you download from and / or contribute to any consortia. Don’t worry if you can’t find out – it will just help you to orientate your learning on the day with the practices in your home institution if you can find out.
10:30 Beginning Cataloguing – physical description and publisher details
11:15 Tea break
11:45 Title, author, other access points
12:30 Lunch
13:30 What do we do about ‘aboutness’? Subject analysis; notes; local practices
15:00 Tea
15:30 More practice
16:00 Close
Room 2C19 is within the Library at Frenchay Campus. This means it is room number 19 in C Block and is on Level 2, which is the same level as the Library entrance.
Details of how to travel to UWE and a map of the campus are available at the university's website here.
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