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Cataloging Discussion Group

The following presentations were given at meetings of the Harvard University Library's Cataloging Discussion Group. To recommend a topic for an upcoming meeting, or to volunteer to give a presentation, please contact the organizers. They welcome your suggestions!

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October 2006 -- Panel on Form/Genre Headings

655 Form/Genre Headings: an overview     (PDF--Isabel Quintana)
Form/Genre Headings in the Rare Books Cataloging Unit of Houghton Library     (PDF--Morris Levy)

May 2006 -- Metadata Cataloging in the Harvard Libraries

GIS Metadata for the Harvard Geospatial Library     (PowerPoint slides--Marc McGee)
Applying Standards for Visual Materials: Cataloging in OLIVIA at the Fine Arts Library     (PowerPoint slides--Bill Connor)

April 2006

Indexing in Aleph     (PowerPoint slides--Laura Morse)

March 2006

New Workflows for Electronic Journals     (sponsored by The Digital Acquisitions, the Cataloging Discussion Group, and the Standing Subcommittee on Series, Serials, and Continuations )

January 2006 -- E-Journal Record Loading

E-Journal Record Loading: the Plan     (PowerPoint slides--Amira Aaron)

November 2005-- Metadata Projects at HUL

Better living through docWORKS     (PowerPoint slides--Todd Bachmann)
  --the Preservation and Imaging Department's implementation of metadata software to facilitate the processing of locally created digital objects
Virtual Collections: Focus on Metadata     (PowerPoint slides--Michael Vandermillen)
  --harvesting metadata from various Harvard online catalogs to create new, topic-based collections
PDS Maintenance User Guide
   --supports editing of the descriptive and structural metadata that follow the Harvard METS Profile for objects delivered through the Harvard University Library's Page Delivery Service.

 

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