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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. Marmot allows members to use any Bibliographic Utility they want.
Bound-with
When two or more books, published separately, are bound together in a single volume. Sometimes the books have nothing to do with each other. It is possible for these to be cataloged separately in Sierra and still circulate as a single item.
BTCat
A bibliographic utility from Baker & Taylor.
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A discovery system is a public catalog system usually created by exporting the data from the ILS or LSP onto a separate server. These can be created independent of the ILS or LSP allowing the possibility to mix and match library systems and discovery systems. Marmot’s Marmot supports our own discovery system is Pika which is able to accept data from many different library systems, Pika, and the open source discovery system VuFind.
Edition
All copies produced from essentially the same type image and issued by the same entity.
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A record in Sierra that is used for keeping track of an individual circulating item. It includes the item status, call number, barcode, and circulation information.
JACKPHY
Short for Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Hebrew, and Yiddish.https://marmot-support.atlassian.net/l/cp/auWB1WQE
Joint Author
A person who collaborates with one or more other persons to produce a work. Recorded in the MARC 700 field.
Key Title
A standardized title for a serial, similar to a uniform title, but there is no authority record. It is assigned by the Library of Congress along with an ISSN. It is recorded in field 222 in MARC format.
LC MARC
Obsolete, replaced by MARC 21.
LCCN
Library of Congress Control Number. An accession number the Library of Congress assigns for their own internal purposes. It can be used as a standard number to find or identify books. Appears in field 010 of the MARC record. In the Library of Congress catalog it is also in the 001.
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Library of Congress Subject Headings. A general controlled vocabulary of terms to describe subjects. Each term is recorded in a subject authority record. Top of You can look these up at the Library of Congress.
https://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
Leaf
Each leaf consists of two pages of a book, one on each side, either or both of which may be blank.
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The current international standard for the structure of MARC records. Replaces US MARC and LC MARC.
https://www.loc.gov/marc/marcdocz.html
MeSH
Medical Subject Headings. A controlled subject vocabulary maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
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Name Authority File, a list of authoritative headings for persons and corporate bodies produced by the Library of Congress and NACO libraries. You can search the NAF at the Library of Congress.
https://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First
Name Authority Record
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Name-Title Entry
An authorized access point consisting of the name of a person or corporate body and the title of an item authorized access point consisting of the name of a person or corporate body and the title of an item. In a bib record it is split between the 100 and 240 fields if it is main entry. It can also appear in an 800 with the name in subfield a and the title in subfield t.
Nomen
Any string of characters used to identify an entity. The title is a nomen for a book. The ISBN is another nomen for the book.
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Uniform Product Code. A 12-digit number used to identify many retail products. In libraries they are most often found on DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs. In MARC records these are recorded in the 024 field.
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Obsolete, replaced by MARC 21.
UTF or UNICODE
A widely used set of characters. It is indented to include all possible characters from all scripts world wide. It replaces MARC8 because it includes many more characters and scripts.
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A number assigned to a video recording by it’s publisher. Usually their catalog number. In MARC it is recorded in field 028.
VuFind
An open source discovery system originally created by Villanova University. It is now used by many academic libraries. Marmot can support VuFind for members who choose to use it rather than Pika.
Sources
Glossary of Cataloging Terms. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma, 2014.
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. 2nd ed., 1988 rev. Chicago: American Library
Association, 1988.Wynar, Bohdan S. Introduction to Cataloging and Classification. 7th ed., by Arlene G.
Taylor. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1985.
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