[DCRM-L] Rare Book Cataloging Class in August

[Schneider, Nina]

The following announcement for California Rare Book School is being posted on behalf of CALRBS. Full information, including scholarship applications for first-time attendees and mid-career librarians are available on the website. If you have any questions, please send an email to calrbs at gseis.ucla.edu

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Rare Book Cataloging
Current faculty: Randal S. Brandt
Location: University of California, Los Angeles
Dates: August 4-8, 2014
http://www.calrbs.org/


Description: Aimed at catalog librarians who find that their present duties include (or shortly will include) the cataloging of rare books or special collections materials. Attention will be given primarily to cataloging books from the hand-press period, with some discussion given to 19th and 20th century books in a special collections context.

Topics include:

-comparison of rare book and general cataloging 
-application of codes and standards, especially DCRM(B) 
-uses of special files 
-problems in transcription, collation, and physical description 
-setting cataloging policy within an institutional context

This course is restricted to working catalogers experienced in AACR2, and/or RDA, MARC 21, and general cataloging principles and practices. No knowledge of early books is necessary. The goal of the course is to provide practice in each of the primary elements of the rare book catalog record, so that students will be equipped to begin cataloging their institutions rare book and special collections materials.

Requirements:  In their personal statement, applicants should describe their experience with machine-readable AACR2 and/or RDA cataloging and provide a brief description of the types and date range of materials they expect to catalog with DCRM(B). In addition, applicants are requested to submit 1-3 typical bibliographic records of materials they currently are cataloging, preferably original cataloging of modern books or serials.

There are no deadlines for course applications, as each course remains open until it is full (maximum 12 students).  However, there are scholarships funded by multiple sources that have two application deadlines.  The first is June 15 for Weeks 1 and 2, and the second is August 15 for Week 3.  See the CalRBS Website (www.calrbs.org) for details and application forms.

Scholarships for mid-career librarians will be available once again in 2014.  Apply by the scholarship application deadlines.  These scholarships are made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. 


Please email calrbs at gseis.ucla.edu if you have any questions or comments.



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Nina M. Schneider
Head Cataloger
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA  90018
(323) 731-8529

nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/