CATALOGING RESOURCES

CATALOGING

Documentation

Guidelines for Coding Electronic Resources in Leader/06 http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/ldr06guide.html
MARC21 Documentation http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcdocz.html

NOTE: You can also see field-specific MARC21 documentation in MarciveWeb SELECT by clicking on *** next to any cataloging field.
MARC21 Code Lists:  
Organizations http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/organizations/
Countries http://www.loc.gov/marc/countries/cntrhome.html
Geographic Areas http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacshome.html
Languages http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/langhome.html
Relators, Sources, etc. http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/relahome.html
MARC Note Tag Order http://elibrary.unm.edu/catdept/csdg_dc_notes.html

University of New Mexico General Library maintains this list of MARC note tags with descriptions, tag order and reference to the appropriate AACR2 and LCRI instructions.
Normas MARC http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcspa.html
Esta página contiene enlaces a documentos para los formatos MARC 21.
MARC 21 Translations http://www.loc.gov/marc/translations.html
A bibliographic listing of MARC21 translations in Catalan; Finnish; French; German; Hungarian; Korean; Norwegian; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish.

Tools

Dictionaries, glossaries, gazetteers, etc. ...

Acronym Finder http://www.acronymfinder.com/
A comprehensive database of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.
Ethnologue http://www.ethnologue.com/
A comprehensive resource on people and languages of the world.
GeoNet Name Server http://gnswww.nima.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp
USGS GNIS http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form
IFLA Multilingual Dictionary http://subito.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de/muldicat/

A dictionary of cataloging terms and concepts
Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science http://lu.com/odlis/
Pharma Lexicon http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/
Searchable database of medical and pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations.
Reference.com http://www.dictionary.com/Dir/Reference/Dictionaries/

This site provides hot links to resources in the following categories: biographical, etymology, foreign languages, geography, glossary, humanities, medical, pronunciation, rhyming, science, sign language, subject, symbols, translation, vocabulary lists, etc.
The Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive http://www.acronyms.ch/
A database of computer-related acronyms.
Word Reference http://www.wordreference.com/index.htm
Language look-up tool for English, French, Italian, Spanish
WorldWide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html

Tables & Classification Systems

Cutter-Sanborn Table http://ub.uibk.ac.at/fbg/author/author1.htm
DDC to LC and LC to DDC mapping http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/html/help/en/ask/ask_map_ddctolcc.html
Initial Articles http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdapp-e.html
LC Classification Online http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
LC Cutter Table http://ucs.orst.edu/~reeset/html/lc_cutter.html
LC Romanization Table http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
National Library of Medicine Classification http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/
Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/
Provides links to BIBCO, CONSER, SACO AND NACO

Miscellaneous Tools

ISBN-13 Converter http://www.isbn.org/converterpub.asp
Convert 10-digit ISBNs to 13-digits or 13-digit ISBNs to 10.
ISBN Verification Site http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~c9819725/
The University of Wolverhampton’s School of Computing and Information Techonology site will check a 10-digit ISBN to be sure it is valid, based on the check digit, or determine what the check digit should be.
Roman Numeral Conversion http://my.netdirect.net/~charta/Roman_numerals.html

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/3224/digits.html

AUTHORITIES

Documentation

MARC21 Authority Format http://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ecadhome.html
NACO http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco.html
NACO Music Project Handbook http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/nmp_hdbk.htm
SACO http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco.html

Name & Subject Thesauri

Canadian Subject headings (NLC) http://www.collectionscanada.ca/csh/
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/

Sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Trust this site provides a structured vocabulary of names and other information about places. The TGN includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. It includes physical features and administrative entities, such as cities and nations. The emphasis in TGN is on places important for art and architecture.
Library of Congress Online Authorities http://authorities.loc.gov/
Online version of LC authority records and list of headings used in the LC online catalog.
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agt/alphareport.htm
MeSH (National Library of Medicine) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html
TGM II Thesaurus http://www.loc.gov/lexico/servlet/lexico?usr=pub&op=sessioncheck&db=TGM_II
Thesaurus for Graphic materials with genre and physical characteristics terms.

DISCUSSION LISTS
AUTOCAT Cataloging discussion group
http://listserv.syr.edu/archives/autocat.html
GSAFD Genre and subject access list; to subscribe send request to listserv@utarlvm1.uta.edu
USMARC US MARC discussion group; to subscribe send request to listproc@loc.gov
VIDEONEWS List covers video cataloging; to subscribe send request to listserv@library.berkeley.edu

LIBRARY HUMOR

IFLANET http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/humour.htm