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Cataloguing with SUNCAT webinar

Posted on December 14, 2015 by zmulliga

We held a “Cataloguing with SUNCAT” webinar at the start of December with around 70 participants from a wide range of UK Higher Education, Further Education, government, NHS and specialist research institutions.

The webinar explained how data is handled in SUNCAT and how libraries benefit from it as a comprehensive source of quality bibliographic data, incorporating a free record downloading service. The session included information on:

  • How easy it is to contribute to SUNCAT
  • How data is sent to SUNCAT from our Contributing Libraries
  • How we deal with standards, e.g. AACR2 & RDA
  • What normalisation occurs and why
  • How SUNCAT can make your cataloguing workflow more efficient
  • Using the free MARC record downloading service

Questions covered bibliographic and holdings details around contributing data to SUNCAT; e-journal interlending; how records can be downloaded into local Library Management Systems; configuring the Z39.50 search results and how the Z39.50 downloading service might be improved.

More details about the webinar including the slides, Q&A and a recording of the session are available at http://www.suncat.ac.uk/news/presentations.html

Please contact the EDINA helpdesk, edina@ed.ac.uk, if you have any questions about issues raised in the webinar.

Posted in cataloguing, contributing to SUNCAT, downloading, MARC records, metadata, news, webinar, Z39.50

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