Last week was educational, though no single day stood out enough to make me write up a blog post. I got through a fair number of copy cataloging items. More excitingly I created my first original catalog record and added it to OCLC! So if you see a record for Portland's Blue Bike Lanes: Improved Safety Through Enhanced Visibility out there it could be because of me. I also started my second original record and after reviewing it with my supervisor today, added it to OCLC as well. So, if you use the record for Report to Governor Parris N. Glendening from the Transit-Oriented-Development Task Force, well, I added that one to. Creating the second record also entailed creating an authority record for for the task force as well, so I got to do a little bit of authority work too.
Another bit from last week consisted of dealing with multi-volume sets of materials. The relationship between items and bibliographic entities in the cataloging system is more clear to me now.
I've also started working on original records for some theses. These aren't that much different that monographs, but require some extra note fields and are treated a bit more like manuscripts since they aren't officially "published". Mostly this seems to mean that the 260 field only has a copyright date.
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