Apologies yet again to the non-library people who may come across this blog..I'm boring you to tears!
So, now I'm cataloging all the books which were published by the Center. The previous cataloger cataloged each individual article in edited books. I think this does make lots of sense, but on the other hand, it makes for lots of work for me. Some books are taking more than a full work day to catalog!
And then you have this beauty.... the majority of the articles were published in other books published by the Center, so I can just link them up with the previous record (add a second call number etc...). On of the chapters is the introduction to a previous book, so it wasn't done. I've decided not to do it either.
The next one is where I'm deep in discussion with myself. (I'll probably skip it and wait for my librarian friends to help out.) The article is actually snippets from a book we published. The book has a regular book record (as opposed to an article record) and no article references. The article is pages: 24-27, 261-264...blah blah blah. So the question is... do I create an article record, or not?
To give a better idea what I'm dealing with, I've been cataloging the articles using the records in RAMBI. (oh what a wonderful resource!!!!). RAMBI doesn't have an article record for either of the two cases mentioned above. In fact, of the 25 "chapters" in this book RAMBI has only created records for 13 of them. (I don't know why....I haven't checked the others yet.)
For those who want to go deeper: the book is החוויה היהודית האמריקנית.
All input would be welcome....
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Periodicals, another work related blog post
My work posts are written and posted while I'm at work, because I feel that writing it all up helps me evaluate the situation better.
There are many annuals (or even less frequent journals) that have been cataloged as books not periodicals because you can't put subject headings with individual periodical issues in LMS+. This was confirmed for me by a friend who uses LMS+ at a high school library.
Journals like Gal_Ed, Polin, עיונים בתקופת ישראל and others are within the stacks, and not with the periodicals. The shelf number situation is also weird. He wanted (for most of them) to stick them together so they originally had a running call number ie: H122 (Jews in Poland) 65 (the 65th book cataloged in H122) but then when a new volume came, he put sort of a cutter. so the first 10 volumes are 65-75, the next five are 75.1-75.5. Not good, not easy. I don't mind them staying in with the books, because they are much more logical for the journals that relate to a specific topic, but I have to fix the shelf number situation.
Thoughts on this.
Option 1: Give them all the same number, and add a third line to the shelf number field which includes the volume number of the journal. This third line would be also helpful, because multiple volumes of non periodicals just have the number of volumes in the record, not on the label, so it isn't always easy to figure out what you are looking at.
Option 2: Be an ostrich and stick my head in the sand.
Option 3: I'm not sure. Move it to Periodicals (X) but still catalog each issue individually and not have it labeled in the system as a periodical. (If I label it as a periodical, I get irrelevant fields, that will mess things up.)
Please help, with opinions, suggestions..this is important!
There are many annuals (or even less frequent journals) that have been cataloged as books not periodicals because you can't put subject headings with individual periodical issues in LMS+. This was confirmed for me by a friend who uses LMS+ at a high school library.
Journals like Gal_Ed, Polin, עיונים בתקופת ישראל and others are within the stacks, and not with the periodicals. The shelf number situation is also weird. He wanted (for most of them) to stick them together so they originally had a running call number ie: H122 (Jews in Poland) 65 (the 65th book cataloged in H122) but then when a new volume came, he put sort of a cutter. so the first 10 volumes are 65-75, the next five are 75.1-75.5. Not good, not easy. I don't mind them staying in with the books, because they are much more logical for the journals that relate to a specific topic, but I have to fix the shelf number situation.
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Thoughts on this.
Option 1: Give them all the same number, and add a third line to the shelf number field which includes the volume number of the journal. This third line would be also helpful, because multiple volumes of non periodicals just have the number of volumes in the record, not on the label, so it isn't always easy to figure out what you are looking at.
Option 2: Be an ostrich and stick my head in the sand.
Option 3: I'm not sure. Move it to Periodicals (X) but still catalog each issue individually and not have it labeled in the system as a periodical. (If I label it as a periodical, I get irrelevant fields, that will mess things up.)
Please help, with opinions, suggestions..this is important!
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