Introduction to MARC
Cataloguing Part 2
Presenters:
Irma Sauvola: Part 1
Dan Smith: Part 2
Original Cataloguing in JASI
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Who sets the JASI Standards?
What are the JASI Standards?
What does a JASI Record look like?
JASI Record break down.
What is seen by the public, iBistro vs. JASI
Steering Committee
• The JASI Steering committee is a
representative of the JASI community. The
committee • Name
JASI MARC record standards
Important Term definitions
• Field - A group of items that contains similar information and
is related (title field, author field, etc).
• Tag – A three-digit number assigned to each field
(245 for title, 100 for author, etc).
• Indicator – The first two character positions that supplement
the field’s data. Each indicator is independent and has
different meanings for various tags. A blank indicator means
either “undefined” or “no information provided”.
• Subfield – Holds information which allows for further division
of field data.
• Leader - The leader consists of the first 24 character positions
in the MARC record.
JASI MARC record standards
Brief
Template
Full
JASI MARC record - Brief
• A brief MARC record is a minimal record
containing only the bare minimum of
information.
• 020 – ISBN
• 100 – Personal Author
• 245 – Title
• 260 - Publication Information
JASI MARC record - Template
• A template is the desired fields for a good
MARC record. In addition to the Brief
minimum a Template record would include:
• 082 - Dewey Class Number
• 110 - Corporate Author
• 300 - Physical description
• 440 - Series Title
• 500 - General Note
Template Continued
• 505 - Contents Note
• 520 - Summary
• 650 - Subject Term
JASI MARC record - Full
• The Full MARC record adds the following tags
to the Template:
• 111 - Conference Author
• 130 - Uniform title
• 240 - Uniform Title
• 250 - Edition
• 410 - Series
• 411 – Series
Full Continued
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490 – Series
590 - Local Note
596 - Held by
600 - Personal subject
610 - Corporate subject
611 - Conference subject
Full Continued
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630 - Title subject
651 - Geographic term
655 - Genre index term
700 - Added author
710 - Added author
711 - Conference author
Full Continued
• 730 - Uniform title
• 740 - Added title
• 856 - Electronic access
The JASI Catalog Structure
The JASI catalogue can be broken
down to 3 parts
Title
Call Number
Item
Catalog Record Structure
Title or Catalog
Page 30 Of Cataloguing Reference guide
Fixed Fields
Bibliographic data
Call Number or Volume
Library, Call Number
Class Scheme
Item
Item ID / Barcode
Item type
Call Number or Volume
Library, Call Number
Class Scheme
Item
Item ID / Barcode
Item type
Title Record
• Bibliographic Entries
• This portion of the record is available to all
JASI members.
• Any changes to this portion of the record
transcends to all libraries.
Call Number or Volume
• The Call number entry will contain the
Library’s Call number, Library Name, and Class
scheme.
Item
• On the Item portion you will locate the Item
ID, Item Type and an image of the barcode.
• It is common to have multiple copies of the
same title at a single library, therefore a library
may have multiple entries at this level.
• It is important to remember that each item
format has a different ISBN and each item
entry must have a unique ISBN entered.
Leader Codes
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Ctry
Date1
Page 25 Appendix E of cataloguing reference guide
How does an entered record look
in iBistro
Workflows
iBistro
www.jasinorth.ca
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