CatDept 101: Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) The Shared Cataloging Program (SCP) provides catalog records for materials licensed via the CDL (i.e., Tier 1 and certain Tier 2s) and designated open access electronic resources. Tier 1 materials are… more »

CatDept 101: Analytics Cataloging (Part I: Monographic Series) AACR2 defines a monographic series as "a group of separate items related to one another by the fact that each item bears, in addition to its own title proper, a collective title applying to… more »

The Materials Management Unit (MMU) is the beginning point of the cataloging supply chain and Marking is the end. MMU captures and sorts material into multiple workflow categories, differentiated by language, material type and/or type of cataloging reque… more »

CatDept 101: The OCLC WorldCat Cataloging Partners (WCP) service (formally known as PromptCat) The OCLC PromptCat service merged with the OCLC Cataloging Partners program into one new, enhanced service that is now called WorldCat Cataloging Partners (W… more »

Three Levels of Cataloging 1. What are the three levels of cataloging and what do they mean? Monographic material moving through the Catalog Department's new work flows are cataloged at one of three levels. Level 1 (Full MARC21 Record) records have… more »