Cornell University Library

Technical Services Manual

Table of Contents

• Search the Manual
• About This Manual
• About Technical Services at Cornell
• General Resources
• Creating and Maintaining Bibliographic Records
  • Creating a bibliographic record
  • Editing a bibliographic record
  • Copy Holdings Records
  • Item Records
  • Holdings Records
  • Subject Cataloging
  • Shelflisting
  • Authority Records
• Resources for Acquisitions and Collection Development
• Special Cataloging Resources
  • Cataloging Electronic Resources
  • Format Integration
• Other Materials of Interest

General Resources

• Location Codes
• In-Process Codes
• MARC Field Tag Maps for OPAC Public Display
• RLIN Searching for Technical Processing
• NOTIS Searching in Staff Mode [Draft]
• Glossary of Bibliographic Information by Language
• CUL Jargon (1977 ed.)

Creating and Maintaining Bibliographic Records

• NOTIS Tag Tables
• USMARC Concise Format for Bibliographic Data

• RLIN Supplement to USMARC Bibligraphic Format (for RLIN specific fields)
• Creating a bibliographic record
  • Format codes to create blank workforms
  • Minimal fixed field values for preliminary records
  • Comparison of NOTIS and RLIN fixed fields
  • Special guidelines for typing certain variable fields
  • Local Notes in NOTIS
    • Staff Notes
    • OPAC Notes
    • Procedure for Recording Copy-Level Notes
    • Notation Codes for Copy-Level OPAC Notes
    • Patterns for "um=" Copy-Level Notes
    • Notation Codes for Bibliographic Verification Tools
    • Abbreviations Used in Notes
  • Diacritics/Alternate Character Table
  • USMARC Code List for Countries
  • USMARC Code List for Languages
  • USMARC Code List for Geographic Areas
  • USMARC Code List for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions
  • Step-by-step instructions

• Editing a bibliographic record
  • Deleting 007 fixed fields
  • Default fixed field values for preliminary records
  • BOVL instructions
  • Step-by-step instructions
• Deleting a bibliographic record
  • Deleting records on RLIN

• Copy Holdings Records
  • Editing a copy holdings record
    • Catalog status codes
    • Copy status codes
    • Classification Type Code Table
    • Call Number Examples
  • Deleting a copy holdings record

• Item Records
  • Creating an item record
  • Editing an item record
  • Relinking an item record
  • Deleting an item record
  • Linking an unlinked item record

• Holdings Records
  • Creating an MHLD record
  • Editing an MHLD record
  • Format of MARC holdings data
  • Holdings punctuation guide
  • Deleting a holdings record
  • USMARC Concise Format for Holdings Data

• Procedure for Withdrawal, Reinstatement, Transfer

• Subject Cataloging
  • List of Pattern Headings (Princeton)
  • Free-Floating Subdivisions (Princeton)
  • Use of the Subdivision --Databases

• Shelflisting
  • Library of Congress Classification Outline
  • Ordering Shelflist Cards
  • American States and Canadian Provinces Table
  • LC Regions and Countries Table
  • LC Book Number Table

• Authority Records
  • Authority Fixed Field Elements
  • Comparison of RLIN and NOTIS Fixed Field Labels
  • RLIN Authorities Field Guide (for RLIN specific fields)
  • Variable Fields--Brief descriptions
  • Table of |w Values
  • X00 First Indicator Personal Name Prefixes
  • Guidelines for Tagging Geographic Names
  • Geographic Names Information System (for US names)
  • GEOnet Names Server (for non-US names)
  • Getty Thesaurus for Geographic Names
  • Instructions for Creating Authority Records
  • NACO Searching Instructions
  • Series Authority Record Documentation
  • USMARC Concise Format for Authority Data
  • Authority Section Procedures

Resources for Acquisitions and Collection Development

• ORDUNIT and RECUNIT codes
• Class Codes Master List
• Fund Codes - Listing of Selectors and Fund Codes by Group
• Selector Name List (by subject)
• Selector NOTIS Code List (by name) (includes former selectors)
• Selector NOTIS Code List (by ID) (includes former selectors)
• Order and Invoice Processing Codes List
• Vendor Memo Codes List - by Function
• Vendor Memo Codes List - Alphabetical
• Serial Action Interval Guidelines
• Vendor Reports
• Networked Electronic Resource Selection Form

Special Cataloging Resources

• Cataloging Electronic Resources
  • Cataloging Procedures for Networked Electronic Resources
  • Cataloging Internet Resources: a manual. 2d ed. / by Nancy Olson
  • Guidelines for the Use of Field 856 / Library of Congress
  • Cornell Implementation for Field 856
  • CONSER Cataloging Manual: Module 31, Remote Access Computer File Serials
  • Interactive Electronic Serials Cataloging Aid (Northwestern University)
  • CUL Instructions for Cataloging Digital Preservation Titles
  • Networked Electronic Resource Selection Form

• Other Materials of Interest
  • Union List of Artist Names
  • Names of Printing Towns (for early printed books)
  • Latin Place Names (found in the imprints of books printed before 1801)
  • Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger
  • Serials Cataloging Training Materials
    • Holdings and MHLD
    • Electronic Serials and other Materials

• Format Integration

This site is maintained by:
Diane I. Hillmann
Head, Technical Services Support Unit
Cornell University Library
107B Olin Library
Ithaca, NY 14853
607/254-5290

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