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Previously called a traced heading. This is a standardized, controlled character string that represents an entity. An entity can be a person, corporate body, title or topic. Bib records include AAPs in many fields including 100, 110, 111, 130, 240, 600, 610, 611, 630, 650, 651, 700, 710, 711, and 730.

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BIBCO

The part of the PCC that does is concerned with monograph cataloging. They do training and documentation on cataloging to national standards.

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The record in Sierra that stores information describing the item. Primarily consists of MARC data. It is the central record to which item, order and checkin records are attached. Information from this record is used to create the indexes that allow searching for materials in Sierra and the public catalog.

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Bibliographic Control

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Common term for shared technical processing systems such as OCLC, SkyRiver and BTCat. They allow libraries to share the MARC records.

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BTCat

A bibliographic utility from Baker & Taylor.

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Cataloging Source

Source of the cataloging information, i.e. the library that created the record. It is represented in MARC field 040, which gives codes for the cataloging agency, transcribing agency, and any agencies that modify the record.

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