Electronic Serials Cataloging

AUDIENCE LEVEL: Intermediate

DESCRIPTION:

The Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop is designed as a hands-on training course that will introduce attendees to current standards and practices, elements and terminology used in the cataloging of electronic serials. This course is based on Resource Description and Access (RDA) as interpreted by current CONSER policy and practice with special attention paid to the differences in the cataloging of print and electronic serials. Attendees will participate in hands-on exercises which will include use of tools and documentation in support of cataloging with RDA. Knowledge of print serials cataloging practices is not required but attendees should be familiar with the MARC standard.

In addition, the workshop will introduce attendees to the use made of e-serial MARC records outside of the traditional library catalog (eg, library discovery systems and knowledgebases).

Participants in the workshop will be able to:

• describe the differences between cataloging print serials and electronic serials.
• catalog an electronic serial following current CONSER practices.
• understand the various options for providing access to e-serial full-text (ie, knowledgebase, manual cataloging).

Course Instructor

Steve Shadle
Serials Access Librarian
University of Washington Libraries

Steve Shadle is Serials Access Librarian at the University of Washington Libraries, where he catalogs serials, supports link resolver and knowledge-base applications and otherwise wrangles serial holdings and bibliographic data. Steve is an active trainer in the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program. He frequently presents at North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) and American Library Association meetings and regularly writes for Serials Review. Prior to his tenure at the University of Washington, Steve was an ISSN cataloger at the National Serials Data Program of the Library of Congress and Technical Services Librarian at the Agency for International Development Library. Steve received his Masters of Librarianship from the University of Washington in 1990 and his Bachelor of Arts in linguistics (also from the University of Washington) in 1987.