<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">If the context is our own book-centered technical literature, then "bibliographic record" is acceptable--we know it belongs in a catalog. In any other context, especially any writing for non-catalogers, we should use "catalog record", a perfectly idiomatic noun phrase that clearly expresses the nature of the thing. "Cataloging record" would be, as others have pointed out, a record concerning the activity of cataloging (a gerund, fwiw).</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Ramona Sampsell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sampsell@cua.edu" target="_blank">sampsell@cua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font size="+2"><font face="Garamond">Is the record in the catalog
or about the cataloging?<br>
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<div>On 9/16/2013 8:51 PM, Deborah J. Leslie
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#215868">‘Cataloging
record’ or ‘Catalog record’?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#215868">Deborah J. Leslie,
M.A., M.L.S. | Folger Shakespeare Library |
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| <a href="tel:202.675-0369" value="+12026750369" target="_blank">202.675-0369</a> | <a href="http://www.folger.edu" target="_blank">www.folger.edu</a></span><span style="color:#215868"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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