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This online training session will help you understand the intricacies of searching WorldCat in Connexion. This session will cover:
Connexion client is used for demonstration and in class exercises. You must have access to Connexion client while attending the course.
Who should attend?: Cataloging staff who want to become more skillful and efficient WorldCat searchers using Connexion client.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with basic searching in Connexion client. If you are new to Searching WorldCat using Connexion client, you should first attend the webinar “Basic Searching Using Connexion Client.”
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Explore advanced search capabilities and strategies with Web search engines. It includes what you need to know about Boolean searches, adjacency, field searching, limits, and other special features. We will focus mostly on Google, Yahoo!, and a few other major search engines.
This webinar is based on sessions and articles by Greg Notess, with permission.
Who should attend?: Anyone interested in advancing their web searching skills.
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Through examples of different search techniques and resources examine the potential for WorldCat to locate items of interest regarding family roots and ties. This “super” catalog contains such items as: church histories, wills, manuscripts, maps and even possibly your great-grandfather’s teddy bear.
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This session will give an introduction to searching WorldCat. It is intended for staff new to searching WorldCat using Connexion client. Topics covered will include:
Connexion client is used for demonstration and in class exercises. You must have access to Connexion client while attending the course.
Who should attend?: Cataloging staff new to searching WorldCat using Connexion client.
Prerequisites: None
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This Webinar provides new or current interlibrary loan staff with the basic information they need to send and receive interlibrary loan requests on the VDX system. The training will cover how to handle items in the work queue along with suggestions for how often each category should be checked to keep on top of the workflow. This session is presented by Nick Banitt, MnLINK Gateway Specialist, and Raquel Franklin, Document Delivery Supervisor.
Who should attend?: Interlibrary loan staff members who are beginners at using the VDX Interlibrary Loan system, or those who are looking for a very basic overview of the system. (Sessions in more advanced VDX topics will be announced later this summer.)
Prerequisites: Participants should have a basic understanding of the ILL process. Some familiarity with VDX is helpful.
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The field of reference services has been rapidly evolving over the past 10 years and growing even faster in the arena of online reference services. Be it email, chat, instant messaging, text messaging or another format, libraries continue to incorporate and research online reference services as new ways to provide access to information and their services to their immediate community and beyond. Meeting the demands of an online community while providing a quality service is an ever-present priority for libraries. Join MINITEX Reference staff as we discuss Best Practices in Online Reference Services and look at goals, policies, training, assessment, and more that make for an exemplary reference experience for both the patron and the librarian.
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What are authorities and authority records? What is authority control? Why should I care? This 75 minute Webinar offers a quick and simple introduction to the concept of authorities and authority control. The session will include information on where to find authority records, a quick guide to interpreting them, and examples of how you might use them.
Who should attend?: Any technical services staff new to authorities
Prerequisites: None
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This one-hour webinar will look at the newly released Business Searching Interface (BSI) created by EBSCO for searching their Business Source Premier database. It features many enhancements designed specifically for business researchers.
Who should attend?: Anyone interested in gaining familiarity with Business Source Permier's BSI.
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Sometimes new items in your collection require original cataloging, but you don’t have the time or the training to create full-level records for all of them. This webinar will discuss two less than full-level cataloging options— minimal-level records and core records—that will make it easier to provide access to these items in a timely manner.
We will define minimal-level and core records, explore how they can help you, clarify when to create them, and detail what to include in such records.
Please Note: This webinar presents information on less-that-full records. It does not include step-by-step instructions for cataloging these records.
Who should attend?: Anyone who does original cataloging.
Prerequisites: Experience applying cataloging rules in original cataloging.
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This one-hour Webinar highlights a variety of enhancements from recent versions of the OCLC Connexion Client, including 1.7, 2.0, and the newest version 2.1.
Do you know about all the new display options and navigational changes? And the OCLC supplied macros that are a cinch to use and can save you time? Did you know that genre headings can now be controlled? How about importing and exporting records in Dublin Core?
Come learn about all this and more! We’ll also cover what you need to know to upgrade to the newest version 2.1.
Who should attend?: OCLC Connexion Client users
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of the features of Connexion Client
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Why should you attend this webinar? Macros can help you increase your workflow by automating tasks you do every day when cataloging materials. This course is specifically tailored for catalogers who have never worked with or designed their own macros for use with OCLC’s Connexion client. You will get an overview of how macros work within OCLC’s Connexion client as well as some hands-on exercises to practice on your own time.
At the end of this 60 minute webinar, you will be more familiar with:
Who should attend?: Anyone interested in learning how to use macros when cataloging.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with editing records using OCLC’s Connexion client and interpreting the basic components of bibliographic records.
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This ninety minute online training session covers both the strengths and foibles of the control headings function in OCLC Connexion. Topics include why and when you might control headings in a bibliographic record, how to use the Control Headings window, and how the Control Headings command interacts with the OCLC Authority File.
PLEASE NOTE: This session is the same as part 2 of Using the OCLC Authority File Webinar.
Who should attend?: Cataloging staff who want to increase their knowledge of and proficiency with the OCLC Authority File.
Prerequisites: Participants should be familiar with OCLC Connexion Client and have a basic understanding of authorities and authority work. If you are new to authorities and authority work, you should first attend our Brief Introduction to Authorities Webinar.
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If your library is not using the Custom Holdings option within WorldCat Resource Sharing, you could be missing out on a feature that can significantly simplify the borrowing process for interlibrary loan, and save you time! Custom Holdings automatically identifies potential lenders and routes requests based on your preferred lenders.
In this webinar we will discuss ways to help you examine your borrowing patterns to prepare for setting up custom holdings for your library. We will then guide you through the steps to design, create and update multiple custom holding paths for your borrowing needs.
Who should attend?: Staff who use WorldCat Resource Sharing (OCLC ILL)
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of searching and producing ILL requests within OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing
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This brief webinar will cover content, searching, and results of the Discovering Collection and it's new interface and functions. The Discovering Collection can be searched along with other Gale/Cengage databases via PowerSearch. One new feature is the ability to search National and State Curriculum Standards. This comprehensive online resource contains thousands of reference documents including criticisms, essays, primary documents, biographies, and multimedia. Intended for grades 6-12, this resource can be used to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of literature, history, biography, science, and social studies.
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NetLibrary is an eBook collection available to all libraries and, by extenstion, to all citizens in Minnesota and North and South Dakota. The MINITEX NetLibrary eBook collection contains over 13,500 titles covering hundreds of academic, popular and professional subject and topic areas.
Content includes hundred of titles from Cliff Notes and the "Complete Idiot's Guides To" series, travel guides, computer programming manuals, and several thousand public domain literary classics.
If you would like to learn more about the MINITEX NetLibrary eBook Collection, register for one of the sessions. This one hour webinar will cover what is in the NetLibrary collection, the latest interface updates, various access points and collections available from those access points, searching the collection, creating and managing your personal NetLibrary account, and using NetLibrary's "Librarians Tool Kit" to find out information about your library's NetLibrary eBook usage and ideas for collection development.
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This one-hour webinar will build upon the Academic Search Premier Basic Overview webinar by taking a look at the more advanced features of the database. Time will be spent exploring the Advanced Search & Limiter options, Cited References, Search History Management, Search & Journal Alerts, and Folder Features (e.g., Results Management, Page Composer).
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| Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 9 | Kristen Mastel | REGISTER |
| Friday, October 17, 2008 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 | Beth Staats | REGISTER |
| Please note: Class sizes are limited. If you are unable to attend a webinar you are registered for please contact us ASAP so we can offer the seat to another person. | |||||
This one-hour webinar will look at the the world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database. Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals.
Who should attend?: Anyone who is a beginner or novice at searching EBSCOhost or those interested in learning more about this academic research database.
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| Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 |
Jennifer Hootman
Reference Librarian |
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This webinar will take you through basic searching options, including the advanced, publication, and image searches, as well as a few features available in the “My EBSCOhost” folder. Join MINITEX Reference Services staff for a look at this ELM database, MasterFILE Premier, which offers access to approximately +2,000 full-text periodicals, 84,000 biographies, 88,000 primary documents, 107,000 images and more.
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| Thursday, July 24, 2008 | 1:30 PM (Central Time) | No Charge |
SESSION FULL Sign up for waiting list |
Jennifer Hootman | n/a |
| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 | 2:00 PM (Central Time) | No Charge |
SESSION FULL Sign up for waiting list |
Kristen Mastel | n/a |
| Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 | Kristen Mastel | REGISTER |
| Wednesday, September 10, 2008 | 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 | Beth Staats | REGISTER |
| Monday, September 15, 2008 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 | Kristen Mastel | REGISTER |
| Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 | Beth Staats | REGISTER |
| Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 | Beth Staats | REGISTER |
| Friday, October 10, 2008 | 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 | Beth Staats | REGISTER |
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Participate in a 60-minute overview of the EBSCOhost interface enhancements coming in July of 2008. Discussion of the basic and advanced search screens, including the new SmartText Searching, results display, and an overview of the new graphical interface will occur.
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| Monday, September 22, 2008 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 | Kristen Mastel | REGISTER |
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Learn about the freely accessible suite of 15 databases available through the Electronic Library for Minnesota. Join MINITEX Reference Services staff on a brief tour of ELM resources that contain online magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, eBooks and information from other reference sources. ELM is available online all the time from school, home, work, or @ your library!
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Discover and discuss how the freely accessible suite of 15 databases available through the Electronic Library for Minnesota can be a good place to start with your college/university freshman this fall semester. As they are learning to navigate through campus, their courses, and their library resources for the first time, the ELM portal provides a freshman-level appropriate gateway to get them started on their research and can be used to guide them to where those same or similar resources are available in your library.
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| Tuesday, August 19, 2008 | 10:00 AM (Central Time) | No Charge | 7 | Beth Staats | REGISTER |
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Electronic Library for Minnesota provides quality online information resources to all Minnesota residents via their local libraries and the ELM Portal and MnLINK Gateway. ELM offers magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, reference sources, and electronic books appropriate for a variety of users. Currently, ELM has resources from EBSCO, Gale, ProQuest, OCLC, and NetLibrary. A reference librarian from MINITEX will provide an overview of ELM, including content, features, and access points.
Who should attend?: Anyone who is not familiar with the Electronic Library for Minnesota or who wants a refresher of ELM's content.
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Learn how to set-up access to the ELM databases for your library.
Who should attend?: K12 media specialists and public, academic and special librarians - anyone who needs to know how to set-up access.
Prerequisites: None.
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Discussion of current Elsevier ScienceDirect UTL and future contract.
Who should attend?: All current Elsevier ScienceDirect subscribing libraries.
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Learn about folksonomies, which attach “tags” or terms to information that one finds or creates on the web to collaborate in categorizing that information in a more meaningful way. How the general public is are using them and their potential in the library community? Some sites discussed include Flickr and Del.icio.us.
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The first electronic database in Spanish, ¡Informe! contains over 350,000 Spanish-language documents including reference material. It’s 100+ Spanish and bilingual resource are updated on a daily basis.
Who should attend?: Anyone who wants to learn about the ELM database.
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| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 | 10:00 AM (Central Time) | No Charge | 8 | Kristen Mastel | REGISTER |
| Thursday, August 14, 2008 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 9 |
Jennifer Hootman
Reference Librarian |
REGISTER |
| Wednesday, August 20, 2008 | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 9 |
Jennifer Hootman
Reference Librarian |
REGISTER |
| Monday, September 08, 2008 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Central Time) | No Charge | 10 | Kristen Mastel | REGISTER |
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This session covers the K12 resources available in ELM from Gale, including the Discovering Collection, Kids InfoBits, InfoTrac K12 editions, and Junior Reference Collection. This session will cover the new PowerSearch interface!
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This session covers the seven Gale databses in ELM. Five of them are aimed specifically at K-12 users and this session will discuss content information with a break down of the databases by age group. It will also cover search functions, database content, tips, tools, and search strategies, as well as a look at the Professional Collection, a resource aimed at teachers and educators.
Who should attend?: Anyone interested in learning more about the databases offered via ELM.
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Ever wish you could search a specific group of sites and not the whole Internet? The Google customized search engine allows you to designate specific sites on a topic or interest to search. This is a great tool to help K12 students learn about authoritative and reliable websites, and possibly create a customized search engine on their topic. Do you work in an academic environment? As a department liaison, or instruction librarian, you could create a customized search engine for a course or subject area. You can use the Librarian's E-Library customized search engine to search all the library-related websites for a topic of interest at once. Watch this 11 minute tutorial now to learn how to setup a customized Google search engine!
Who should attend?: Anyone interested in learning Google's functionality and how librarian's can harness some of the tools.
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Tired of scrolling through bookmarks or typing in dictionary.com to look up a word? A customized Google homepage might be right for you! This tool can assist you in accomplishing repetitive personal tasks or assist you at the Reference Desk with common questions. Watch this 11 minute tutorial now to learn how to setup a customized Google homepage!
Who should attend?: Anyone interested in learning Google's functionality and how librarian's can harness some of the tools.
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History Day focuses on teaching students how to select a topic and conduct thorough research using primary and secondary sources to give well-rounded understanding and competency about that topic. In this webinar we will look at this year's theme and discuss ways to help students develop a topic, identify primary sources, and resources to use. We will also look at developing a project timeline using the Research Calculator.
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Do you continually try to redirect patrons and students from searching for books on the internet using everyday tools such as Google, Amazon.com, Abebooks, or another search engine to using your in-house online catalog? Did you know that patrons and students can easily find library books from these and other commonly used tools? Did you also know that you can promote your online catalog and library services outside of your own library website - for free? Open WorldCat and WorldCat.org now make it easier than ever for the general public to use tools and search engines most familiar to them to find library items and services.
MINITEX staff will take you through the In's and Out's of using and promoting your library materials and services through Open WorldCat and WorldCat.org in this 45 minute webinar. We will discuss what Open WorldCat and WorldCat.org are and how they differ. We will also look at the features and tools of each as well as an online demonstration of how they work and how your patrons and students can use them to find library items.
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Informe provides indexing, images and full-text access to general interest Hispanic magazines. Most articles are in Spanish, however, some are from English language Hispanic magazines. While the interface and instructions are in English, Spanish word searches produce many more results than English word searches. While the database provides an English-English dictionary, there is no English-Spanish dictionary. MINITEX Reference staff will take you though the in's and out's of searching this database.
Who should attend?: Anyone working with ESL students, Spanish-speaking population in Minnesota, or students learning Spanish.
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Are you a new library staff member in Minnesota, North Dakota, or South Dakota? Or perhaps you are a new library manager or director and need to learn more about support resources that are available to your staff. MINITEX staff from the Bibliographic and Technical Services (BATS) Unit will guide you through this short presentation that will cover:
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Have you ever wondered how many original records your library added to WorldCat, or how many records your cataloging staff enriched in the past year? You can find out how to locate these types of statistics and others from OCLC Online Product Usage Statistics (OPUS), and from the OCLC Usage Statistics Web site. This webinar will focus on how to access and interpret your cataloging related OCLC statistics. Note: This webinar will not cover CatExpress or WebDewey statistics.
Who should attend?: Staff who currently use Connexion for cataloging and Administrators responsible for preparing library statistical reports.
Prerequisites: None
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Have you ever wondered where to find statistics about the number of OCLC interlibrary loan requests you received, your fill rate, or your average turnaround time? You can find out how to locate these types of statistics and others from OCLC Online Product Usage Statistics (OPUS), and from the OCLC Usage Statistics Web site. This webinar will focus on how to access and interpret your OCLC WorldCat Resource Sharing statistics.
Who should attend?: Staff who currently use WorldCat Resource Sharing or Administrators responsible for preparing library statistical reports.
Prerequisites: None
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ProQuest Newsstand Complete offers access to over 350 newspapers (250 with full-text) which includes local, regional, state, national, and international new sources. This webinar will take a closer look at one of its searching features, Topics – powered by Smart Search. Join MINITEX Reference Services staff to discover how the Smart Search feature compares search terms to index terms and suggests topics, suggests options for narrowing search, and creates a “bread crumb trail.” [Freely accessible through ELM, Electronic Library for Minnesota]
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Interested in connecting with your patrons on a new level? Looking to update your library's website or create a MySpace page? Library 2.0 is the new generation of online library environments that allow patrons and staff to interact via social networking tools. In this new webinar offered by MINITEX Reference Services, we will explore the functions and tools of social networking, how you can apply them to your library's website, see Library 2.0 libraries in action, and talk about what to be aware of in terms of legal issues.
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Do you want to direct more people from the web to your local library? Learn more about how to set up your "deep links" in the WorldCat Services Administrative Module (formerly FirstSearch Administrative Module), so that your users, wherever they may be, can find you! Note: This tutorial only applies to institutions that have a subscription to WorldCat on FirstSearch.
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This webinar will introduce library staff to the basics of editing Local Holdings Records (LHRs) through the OCLC Connexion Browser. We will discuss the implementation of MARC 21 format in OCLC, and demonstrate the steps required to update LHRs. In Part 1 the focus is on LHRs created by the automated migration from Passport UL, and trainees will learn how to update and delete holdings currently in the system. This webinar will include live demonstration of updating in OCLC Connexion.
Who should attend?: Library staff responsible for updating their library's Local Holdings in OCLC.
Prerequisites: It is strongly recommended that staff have viewed the OCLC Local Holdings Tutorials and/or have searched for LHRs in the Connexion Browser.
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This session will expand trainees knowledge of Local Holdings Record maintenance though the OCLC Connexion Browser. Through live demonstration and excercises, we will learn how to create new LHRs either from scratch or by deriving a new LHR from an existing one.
Who should attend?: Library staff responsible for updating their library's Local Holdings in OCLC.
Prerequisites: Must have taken Local Holdings Maintenance - Part1. It is strongly recommended that staff have viewed the OCLC Local Holdings Tutorials covering creating and deriving LHRs in the Connexion Browser.
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Third in our series on Local Holdings Record (LHR) maintenance through the OCLC Connexion Browser. In this session, we'll work with less common holdings requiring extra fields, including multiple levels of detail, microform or supplemental materials, and more. FOr this session you are invited to contact us with your examples of records that require more than a simple LHR.
Who should attend?: Library staff responsible for updating their library's Local Holdings in OCLC. It is not necessary to attend this session if your library doesn't have holdings of this type.
Prerequisites: Must have taken Local Holdings Maintenance - Parts 1 and 2.
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Learn and discuss how ELM resources such as Gale’s Discovering Collection and Junior Reference Collection as well as the Minnesota Digital Library may be mined to locate primary sources for the K-12 curriculum. Participants will be able to take away a list of strategies for incorporating these primary sources into the curriculum. Come prepared to discover and share.
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The MARC21 (Machine Readable Cataloging) Bibliographic format is the nationally-accepted standard for computerized cataloging. Using MARC21 records helps ensure that data in your automated library catalog will be compatible with other systems, catalogs and vendors.
This session will introduce the structure of the MARC record and its function in automated library catalogs. Participants will learn basic MARC terminology, the construction of MARC fields, certain crucial things to check in a MARC record, and the importance of this standard for the performance of public access catalogs.
Who should attend?: Library or systems staff who need a basic understanding of the MARC record and associated terminology.
Prerequisites: None