• A Media Cataloguer's Long Journey to the Twenty First Century
  
• IMAGES: A Metadata Sharing Initiative at the University of Minnesota
  
• Closing Keynote Address

• SCCTP Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop
  
• NACO-AV Funnel Training
  

• Creating Annotations for NonBook Materials
  
• Cataloging Electronic Resources: AACR Chapters 9 and 12
  
• Cataloging Graphic Materials
  
• Map Cataloging
  
• Cataloging Moving Image Materials using AMIM
  
• Advanced Realia Workshop
  
• Cataloging Digital Sound Files: AACR2 Chapters 6 and 9
  
• Videorecordings Cataloging Workshop
  

Access Points for Non-Human Actors

• Book Group in a Bag
• Relocating and Reclassifying Our Feature Films Collection: From Closed Stacks to Blockbuster Video
• Saving the Earth and Your Wrists: Automating Name Authority Control with Macros and CatME
• The Ten Commandments of Special Formats Cataloging

--reported by Verna Urbanski
University of North Florida

--reported by Verna Urbanski
University of North Florida

--reported by Kelley McGrath
Ball State University

--reported by Lisa O'Hara
University of Manitoba Libraries

--reported by Joan Colquhoun McGorman
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

--reported by Jeannette Ho
Texas A&M University

1. It should allow readers to rapidly identify the type of organization being described by the Website;
   
2. It should describe what readers will find once they link to the Website, including its features, and give them a sense of why they would want to see it.

--reported by Kelley McGrath
Ball State University

--reported by Michaela Brenner
Carleton College

--reported by Allison M. Sleeman
University of Virginia

Charles Conway
Department of Geography
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John’s, Newfoundland, A1B 3X9
Canada

1. changes necessitated by cartographic materials in electronic form;
   
2. miscellaneous changes to rules to reflect cataloging practice;
   
3. editorial changes.

1. Those dealing with scale:
   
   1. If the scale cannot be determined easily (i.e., is neither given nor can be figured using a natural scale indicator), the terminology "Scale not given" should be used. "Scale indeterminable" is to be used when one tries to determine the scale by matching the map with map(s) of known scale in the collection. (3.3B1)
      
   2. Terms (3.3B5, 3.3B6, 3.3B7):
      
      1. "Scale varies" – used when the scale changes considerably in one map from the center to the outside edges (such as occurs in some German maps of metropolitan areas with a larger scale for the center city)
         
      2. "Scales differ" – used when there is more than one map with more than one scale
         
      3. "Scales vary" – should not be used.
         
2. Those dealing with coordinates (3.3D1):
   
   1. Coordinates can be given in decimal degrees, decimal minutes, and decimal seconds, although the same method should be used for all the coordinates in a coordinate statement
      
   2. Coordinates can be given either for a bounding box (as one might use for Colorado), bounding rectangle (Wyoming), or a polygon (California).
      
   3. Minuses (-) and pluses (+) can be used instead of just W, E, N, and S
   
   
3. Raster/vector and file type can be given in field 352 (3.3F, new rule).

1. The new lists of terms, which can be used as the specific material designations in the 300 field include: atlas, diagram, globe, map, model, profile, remote-sensing image, section, view. (3.5B1)
   
2. Clarification of the terms map and sheet (3.5B2):
         Map = the genre term, the intellectual content
         Sheet = the format term, the carrier/form on which the content is presented
   
3. List of elements, which can be used in 300 subfield b (3.5C1-3.5C8), are given and described

1. Use 2 separate records.
   
2. Consider both maps to be main maps, and put both titles in the 245 field; however, problems occur when writing the notes and indicating which note pertains to which map since there is no verso.
   
3. Decide that one map is the main map, and describe the other map as being on the verso (Larsgaard’s preferred method).

--reported by Mary Huismann
University of Minnesota

--reported by Ian Fairclough
Marion (Ohio) Public Library

• a quilted angel, on a heart-shaped base which became the angel's wings (a wig and halo were missing)
  
• a corn husk doll made in 1902 by an aunt as a toy
  
• a lead sinker
  
• a piece of petrified wood
  
• a sand dollar (in almost perfect condition)
  
• a musk turtle shell
  
• a fossil of a small minnow embedded in a rock
  
• a hand-cast bronze wombat from Australia
  
• a unicorn, bearing the words "solid brass" on the bottom
  
• a lotus pod with seeds inside
  
• a hand-carved jade dagger (a replica of an ancient sword)
  
• an amber ring, embedded in which was an eight-legged bug
  
• the tooth of an unidentified animal from New Guinea
  
• a wasp's nest (minus the wasps)
  
• a pill maker, consisting of two wooden parts that are rubbed together
  
• a ball-point pen from Kazakhstan, in the shape of a cultural dress
  
• a necklace, of hand-made sterling silver with malachite inlay

--reported by Gayle Porter
Purdue University Libraries

• The 007 field includes physical description of the item; examples include “lossy” codes (for information lost during compression).
  
• The smaller the encoding level, the more sound can be put on the disc, but the quality tends to be poorer; the inverse is also true.
  
• In the past, automated systems could not read publisher’s numbers so this information needed to go in a note; now systems can usually read these numbers, so they can be put in the 028 field.
  
• If the title and all other information about the recording is in the record, do not put a language note; these notes are needed only when the item has something different, e.g., translation, etc. Put a code for the predominant language in the fixed field and also in the 041 field, along with the codes for all other languages used in the item.
  
• As for the choice of GMDs-- if the entire item requires a computer, use the GMD “electronic resource;” if only part of it requires a computer, use “sound recording.”
  
• Put the time in the 300 field only when cataloging one full work; if separate parts have times but no total time, make a note with the time information for each part.
  
• Currently, there is no 300 field used for describing remote-access items, but there is discussion about reinstating it for such items, because the information is not as useful in a note as it would be in the 300 field.
  
• Catalog records for remote access items typically lack class numbers and holdings/item information, which would depend on local decisions-- whether the item is for personal use or institutional use.
  
• Sound recordings never have color.
  
• Add accompanying information only if it is available on the item itself; use what information is on the item.
  
• If no type of computer is specified, use the term "PC".
  
• When applicable, add a 500 note that the item is a standard compact disc; also, add 500 notes for performers.
  
• For an audio play, should the director/producer be put in the 508 field? Freeborn said that the 508 would be used for a digital video, not for sound files.

--reported by Joan Colquhoun McGorman
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

--reported by Gayle Porter
Purdue University Libraries