Volume 36
Number 1
2003
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
Principles 1
Ruth C. Carter
CCQ INTERVIEW
Carolynne Myall, Interview Editor
An Interview with Jean Weihs, Nancy B. Olson,
and Verna Urbanski (October
2002) 3
Sandra K. Roe
Jean Weihs, Nancy B. Olson, and Verna Urbanski discuss their careers as catalog librarians and educators. Topics covered include the development of audiovisual cataloging standards from the late 1960s to 2002, the impact of audiovisual cataloging practice on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR), implications of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), cataloging education, and the future of cataloging as a professional activity.
KEYWORDS. Jean Weihs, Nancy B. Olson, Verna Urbanski, audiovisual cataloging, nonbook cataloging, AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules), Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers, Inc. (OLAC), library science education
Multilingual Records in WorldCat 25
Christine Mueller
Elizabeth Steinhagen
Since the mid-1990s, OCLC has been loading into WorldCat records that originate from sources other than member libraries. This paper addresses the issues created by vendor-contributed records for Spanish language materials and some of the internal, temporary solutions developed by the University of New Mexico General Library (UNMGL) Catalog Services Department for cataloging with these records. Based on four years of day-to-day experience cataloging titles represented in WorldCat by vendor records, the staff of the Ibero Resources Section at UNMGL has devised procedures to identify problem areas that can cause serious access issues for OPAC users. The fact that some U.S. libraries often download these vendor-created records and do not upgrade/enhance them for the rest of the cataloging community complicates the picture. On the flip side, some that do make the effort to lock and replace the master record, fail to do a thorough job. Even more complications arise when OCLC actively recruits new members from outside the English-speaking world–certainly a very worthwhile effort–and loads records contributed by libraries from non-English speaking countries cataloged according to varying standards. Thus, U.S. libraries are facing some conflicting scenarios vis-à-vis multilingual records, and the shared cataloging environment is becoming a more complex sea for all of us to navigate.
KEYWORDS. WorldCat, vendor records, Spanish-language bibliographic records, upgrading records, multilingual records
Chinese Serials: History, Characteristics, and Cataloging
Considerations 41
Jian Wang
Chinese serials are an indispensable component of American academic library collections that have Chinese language or studies programs. This special type of collection has not only attracted the interest of Chinese scholars, but has also been more in demand by university students, faculty and researchers in the related fields. Academic libraries, especially those outside East Asian collections, face multiple challenges in ensuring access to this unique material due to limited library budgets and cataloging staff. This article focuses on enhancing the understanding of Chinese serials and the challenges in processing and cataloging this type of material, including a brief history of Chinese serials, a description of their unique characteristics, and issues concerning cataloging practice.
KEYWORDS. Chinese serials, cataloging Chinese serials, CJK, Chinese writing system, Chinese romanization systems, Pinyin, Wade-Giles
Quality of Korean Cataloging Records in Shared Databases 55
Hee-sook Shin
For decades, the issue of quality control in cataloging records has been discussed, in particular in bibliographic control in the shared databases for various languages, but no earlier studies assess the quality of Korean cataloging records in the databases. This study examines the quality of Korean cataloging records in OCLC’s WorldCat by evaluating records in terms of specific errors, error frequency, areas where errors occur frequently, and errors that could inhibit record retrieval. The results of the current study also are compared with the results of the study of the quality of Chinese-language cataloging records in order to identify shared error patterns. Similarities were found in the error rates and error types. Based on the results, the author proposes some recommendations on how to maintain quality in cataloging Korean-language records.
KEYWORDS. Cataloging, bibliographic control, quality control, Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK), Korean cataloging records, shared database
Strategies for Providing Access to a Specialized Collection:
Cataloging
Decisions Affecting the Quilt Newsletter
Collection at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln 91
Charity K. Martin
Mary Cassner
Libraries often receive gifts of unique, specialized materials to add to their collections. In 1999, the University Libraries at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln received a quilt newsletter collection as an addition to the American Quilt Study Groups quilt collection. In order to provide the best access to the collection, the cataloger in charge of the quilt newsletters developed a unique classification number for the collection and organized the collection by state of origin, followed by organization.
KEYWORDS. Specialized collections, unique classification numbers, quilts, access, cutter numbers
BOOK REVIEWS
Michael Carpenter, Book Review Editor
Writings on the Classical Art of Cataloging
, by Seymour
Lubetzky, compiled and edited by Elaine Svenonius
and Dorothy
McGarry 101
Reviewed by Michael Gorman
Encoded Archival Description Tag Library, Version 2002
,
published by the Society of American Archivists 105
Reviewed by Elizabeth H. Dow
Learn Library of Congress Classification. Library Basics,
No. 1
, by Helena Dittmann and Jane Hardy 110
Learn Dewey Decimal Classification. Library Basics, No. 2
,
by Mary Mortimer 110
Learn Library of Congress Subject Access. Library Basics,
No. 4
, by Jacki Ganendran 110
Reviewed by Kay Meek
CATALOGING NEWS 113
Sandra K. Roe, News Editor