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Follett offers complete cataloging data as specified by the Library of Congress in MARC21 (formerly called USMARC) and MicroLIF formats for all titles. Both formats are enhanced with complete annotations, either Library of Congress or Sears Subject Headings, or both, and shelflist information including reading level (if applicable), interest level, and review sources.
Electronic Data Services
Follett’s electronic data supports all commercially produced circulation and online catalog systems. All Follett Software Company’s Webpath Express (formerly called 856Express!") subscribers receive catalog records that include web links – automatically and at no extra charge. Follett will include the Lexile measure (supplied by MetaMetrics) on catalog records at your request.
Receive MARC Records Online Via TITLEWAVE
With our online delivery of MARC Records on TITLEWAVE, you have access to your MARC records just as soon as your shipment leaves the warehouse. It’s a fast and easy way to integrate your new MARC records into your OPAC.
Shelflist Cards
Follett’s shelflist cards feature ISBN, accession or bar code number, interest level, reading level, purchase price and date, review sources with dates (from 1995 on), LC number, funding code, and invoice number.
> Click Here to view a sample book catalog record. (PDF 44 kb)
> Click Here to view a sample audiovisual catalog record. (PDF 44 kb)
Accelerated Reader® cataloging
With Follett’s Accelerated Reader 526 tag in the catalog record, it is easy to search for Accelerated Reader books if your library’s electronic circulation system supports the tag. This tag includes the reading program name, reading level, point value, quiz number, and holding code (if your library is a member of a union catalog).
Reading Counts™ cataloging
With Follett’s Reading Counts 526 tag in the catalog record, it is easy to search for Reading Counts books if your library’s electronic system supports the 526 tag. This tag includes the reading program name, reading level, point value, and holding code (if your library is a member of a union catalog). Follett’s Reading Counts cataloging also inserts the Lexile measure (if available) in a 521 tag.
Download Our Processing & cataloging Specifications Forms.
> Book Processing & cataloging Specifications Form (1.0 mb PDF)
> A/V Processing & cataloging Specifications Form (1.1 mb PDF)
Cataloging: Prepare for the Coming Standards
The wait is almost over. The library world will soon know if RDA, or Resource Description and Access, will be adopted as the new cataloging standard in the United States.
When the RDA Toolkit, a Web site containing the new standard, as well as a wealth of other information, was unrolled in 2010, it was available throughout the month of August for the library community to look at, try out, and comment upon. During this period, a test group was chosen to use the Toolkit to create bibliographic records using the RDA standard throughout the final quarter of the calendar year. After a brief training period, the test organizations – 26 organizations including libraries of different sizes and types, the Library of Congress, the National Agriculture Library, the National Library of Medicine, and book vendors – created pairs of records for the same core set of 25 resources that included textual monographs, AV materials, serials, and integrating resources, using both RDA and their current cataloging standard. They also created RDA records for other materials in their specialty areas and completed questionnaires to compile such information as time spent and level and types of difficulty they had creating each record.
After assessing the records created during the test period and the experiences reported by test organizations, the Library of Congress is expected to decide by June of this year if the U.S. will adopt RDA as the new cataloging standard. While we wait, RDA records are showing up in OCLC; cataloging listservs are overflowing with questions, opinions, and contentious posts about the use and interpretation of RDA; and the majority of librarians are almost as confused as they were two years ago.
At this point, it is almost certain that this change is coming, so how can we prepare for it? As FLRcataloging has researched the new standard in an effort to be ready for it, we have identified a number of helpful resources, many of which are free:
The primary resource is the RDA Toolkit itself, which can be acquired by subscription at http://www.rdatoolkit.org/. The toolkit contains the guidelines for the new standard and a lot of additional information, including the Library of Congress Policy Statements (LCPSs) – the RDA version of Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRIs).
http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdapresentations.html --The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA’s list of RDA-related presentations, some of which have links to webinars, slideshows, etc.
The Library of Congress has compiled a variety of training tools that are available at http://www.loc.gov/aba/ and http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/, including a series of “Train-the-trainer” webcasts that are extremely informative.
ALA’s ALCTS division has a collection of webinars and other resources available at http://www.loc.gov/aba/ on a variety of topics affecting technical services in libraries, including RDA.
http://haerel.org/Documentr/fer.php –provides links to a variety of information about RDA, FRBR, and FRAD.
http://celeripedean.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/adam-l-schiff-on-rda/ Adam Schiff’s blog about cataloging has a lot of good information about RDA.
While we wait, FLR is looking into what needs to be done internally to comply with RDA when it is adopted as the new cataloging standard. Please address questions, comments, or concerns to our Cataloging Department Manager at kathy.simonetta@flr.follett.com. |
