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Digital Libraries: Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources

INTERNET SOURCES

BUBL - the Bulletin Board for Libraries.
Electronic resource listings by UDC and subject headings.
URL: http://bubl.ac.uk/

Ercelawn, Ann. Tools for Serials Catalogers.
March 1995.
URL: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/ercelawn/serials.html

Indiana University Libraries. Cataloging Resources.
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/resource/library/cataloging/

Memorial University. Cataloguer's Toolbox.
URL: http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/

MIT. Cataloging Oasis.
URL: http://macfadden.MIT.EDU:9500/colserv/cat/

Princeton University Libraries. Catalog Division Home Page.
URL: http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/katmandu/cathome.html

Sha, Vianne Tang. Internet Resources for Cataloguing.
URL: http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/

University of Michigan. Cataloging Tools.
URL: http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/catalog/tools/

University of California, San Diego. Technical Processing Online Tools (TPOT).
URL: http://tpot.ucsd.edu/

University of Vermont. Serials in Cyberspace: Collections, Resources, and Services.
URL: http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/

University of Virginia Library. Cataloging Services Department.
URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/cataloging/

Vanderbilt University. Tools for Serials Catalogers.
URL: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/ercelawn/serials.html


PERIODICALS

Cataloguing and Classification Quarterly.
Haworth Press, Inc. [Quarterly.]
URL: http://ccq.libraries.psu.edu/


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brugger, Judith M.Cataloging the Internet.
URL: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/Internet/brugger.html

Caplan, Priscilla. You Call It Corn, We Call It Syntax-Independent Metadata for Document-Like Objects.
Public-Access Computer Systems Review 6, no. 4 (1995): 19-23.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/caplan3.txt

Caplan, Priscilla. Cataloging Internet Resources.
The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 4, no. 2 (1993): 61-66.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/caplan.txt

Caplan, Priscilla. Providing Access to Online Information Resources: A Paper for Discussion.
Harvard University Library. February 14, 1992. Response to MARBI Discussion Paper No. 54 (Providing Access to Online Information Resources).
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/caplan2.txt

Chang, Kevin, et. al. STARTS. Stanford Protocol Proposal for Internet Search and Retrieval.
Stanford University.
URL: http://www-db.stanford.edu/~gravano/starts_home.html

Cooper, Ian. Indexing the World.
Computing Laboratory, University of Kent. England.
URL: http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/pubs/1994/82/

Graham, Peter. The Mid-Decade Catalog and its Environment.
Pre-print draft: as submitted to ALCTSE Newsletter, January, 1994.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/cffc.htm

Guedon, Jean-Claude. Why are Electronic Publications Difficult to Classify?: The Orthogonality of Print and Digital Media.
This article originally appeared in the 4th Edition of the Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion Lists, published by the Association of Research Libraries in May 1994. 1994.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/guej1.txt

Koch, Traugott. The role of classification schemes in Internet resource description and discovery.
DESIRE project deliverable.
URL: http://www.lub.lu.se/desire/radar/reports/D3.2.3/class_v10.html
PDF: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/classv10.pdf

Levy, David. Cataloging in the Digital Order.
Digital Libraries '95. The Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. June 11-13, 1995 - Austin, Texas, USA.
URL: http://csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/contents.html

Library of Congress.
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC).
Network Development and MARC Standards Office (Library of Congress).
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/

Cataloging at the Library of Congress: Programs and Services.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/

Interlibrary Loan at the Library of Congress.
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/loan/

Library of Congress Cataloging Newsline.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/lccn/lccn.html

USMARC documents.
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/

The USMARC Formats: Background and Principles.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/usmarc.txt

Field 856 (Electronic Location and Access) Guidelines.
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/856guide.html
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/marc856.txt

File Label Specification for USMARC records transferred by FTP.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/ftplabel.txt

CONSER Cataloging Manual, Module 31: Remote Access Computer File Serials.
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/module31.html MARBI. MARBI Proposals and Discussion Papers.
URL: http://www.ala.org/ala/alcts/divisiongroups/marbi/marbi.htm

Dictionary of Data Elements for Online Information Resources.
Marbi Discussion Paper No. 49
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/marbi49.txt

Providing Access to Online Information Resources.
Marbi Discussion Paper No. 54.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/marbi54.txt

The Interactive Electronic Serials Cataloging Aid (IESCA).
URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/ej/IESCA/

OCLC. OCLC Collections and Technical Services.
URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/menu/col.htm

OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop Report.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/oclcmeta.htm

Mapping the Dublin Core Metadata Elements to USMARC.
Discussion Paper No. 86. May, 1995.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/dublin1.txt

The Future Is Now: The Changing Face of Technical Services.
Proceedings of the OCLC Symposium, ALA Midwinter Conference, February 4, 1994.
URL: ftp://ftp.rsch.oclc.org/pub/documentation/ala_symposia/cataloging1994/

Cataloging and Database Services Strategy.
URL: ftp://ftp.rsch.oclc.org/pub/documentation/whitepapers/cataloging_strategy

CORC--Cooperative Online Resource Catalog.
URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/projects/corc/

Intercat - Internet Cataloguing Project Home Page.
URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/catproj/catcall.htm

Cataloguing Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide.
Nancy Olson, editor.
URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/9256cat/toc.htm
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/manual.txt

Proceedings of the Seminar on Cataloging Digital Documents.
University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville and the Library of Congress - October 12-14, 1994.
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/semdigdocs/semi

Riddle, Prentiss . Library culture, computer culture, and the Internet haystack.
Rice University.
URL: http://is.rice.edu/~riddle/dl94.html
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/dl94.htm

Schwartz, Michael, ed. Report of the Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop.
May 28-19, 1996. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the World Wide Web Consortium.
URL: http://www.w3.org/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/

Sha, Vianne Tang. Guidelines for cataloging Internet resources.
URL: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/sha1.txt

VIVA Cataloging and Intellectual Access Task Force. Guidelines for Cataloging VIVA Electronic Collections
URL: http://www.vivalib.org/

Vizine-Goetz, Diane. Using Library Classification Schemes for Internet Resources.
OCLC Internet Cataloging Project Colloquium.
URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/colloq/v-g.htm


MAILING LISTS

AUTOCAT
Subscribe: listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
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Moderated e-conference which focuses on cataloguing and authorities issues.

COOPCAT
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This list acts as a clearinghouse of information to aid in the formation of cooperative cataloging arrangements between libraries.

INTERCAT
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Public list for information and discussion concerning the OCLC Internet Cataloging Project.

TSIG-L
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Canadian Library Association's Technical Services Interest Group.

USMARC-L
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Send the message SUBSCRIBE USMARC [Firstname Lastname]
This moderated e-conference which is open to anyone interested in discussing the implementation, maintenance, and development of the USMARC formats.

Web4Lib
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Web4Lib is a forum to foster the discussion of issues related to the creation and management of library-based WWW servers and clients. The list offers information about this list for librarians involved with web maintenance, as well as an archive of discussions.
URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/
Archive URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html

WebCat-L
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Send the message SUBSCRIBE WEBCAT-L [Firstname Lastname]
WebCat-L is a forum for discussion on the issues surrounding Web-based library catalogues.

SPIDERS AND ROBOTS

SpiderSpotting.
URL: http://searchenginewatch.internet.com/webmasters/spiders.html

The Web Robots Pages.
URL: http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html


SELECTION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Hofman, Paul and Worsfeld, Emma. Selection Criteria for Quality Controlled Information Gateways.
DESIRE project deliverable.
URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/quality/
PDF: http://archive.ifla.org/documents/libraries/cataloging/quality01.pdf