Outline of Courseware - updated versions

Lesson 1: Library Catalog and Bibliographic Records

[gaol] To learn more about the library's online catalog and its components, bibliographic records.

[analogy] We first want to show you what a pair of shoes look like, before we tell you how to make the shoes.

[concepts]

• library catalog
• bibliographic record
• item record

Definition and function of a library catalog - bibliographic records, components of the library catalog - function of bibliographic records - function of the item records - why it is important to make good bibliographic records

Lesson 2: What is cataloging and how we do it?

[concepts]

• Cooperative cataloging
• local online cataloging management

[knowledge]

• We use Millennium to manage our local integrated library functions including ordering, cataloging, and circulation, etc.
• We use Connexion to do the OCLC cooperative cataloging

Lesson 3: The cataloging interface of Millennium

[goal] To get familiar with the Millennium cataloging moduel - To learn different ways of searching the database

[concepts]

• title page (chief source of information)
• matching bibliographic record

Start Millennium cataloging - Search indexed fields - "Do we have a copy already?" (looking for a matching bibliographic record 1) - MARC record (brief intro) - what fields to look for - relationship of item records to bibliographic record (structure of the database components)

Lesson 4: Search WorldCat on Connexion

[goal] To get familiar with the Connexion interface - Learn how to find a matching bibliographic record on WorldCat through Connexion

[concepts]

• matching bibliographic record (continue)
• MARC records (continue)

Search for a matching bibliographic record on Connexion - Criteria of matching bibliographic record - OCLC number - Save a record online or in local save file

In following lessons:

How to add item to OSCAR

How to catalog a book for which you can find a matching bibliographic record on OCLC WorldCat?