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Bibliographic records that describe part of parts of a larger item, such as a chapter, or single volume of a multi-volume work. Such as if you catalog single volumes of a manga series rather than using a single record for the whole set.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers store characters as a combination of bits. ASCII assigns standard meanings to those combinations so that information can be interchanged. The ASCII character set is very limited. Superseded by Unicode., or you could catalog parts of a single volume separately, like collected short stories or novellas.
Authority Control
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The part of the PCC that is concerned with monograph cataloging. They do training and documentation on cataloging to national international standards for monographs.
https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibco/
BIBFRAME
The name given to the bibliographic data structure that the Library of Congress is developing to replace MARC format. It is being created in linked data format, such that all fields consist of URIs pointing to outside sources where the actual data is kept.kept.
Bibliographic (Bib) Record
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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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.
BTCat
A bibliographic utility from Baker & Taylor.
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Cataloging in Publication, a program of the Library of Congress to make partial cataloging information available for items before they are published.
https://www.loc.gov/programs/cataloging-in-publication/about-this-program/
CIP Data or CIP Cataloging
This refers to the cataloging data that sometimes appears in the preliminaries of a book, often resembling an old fashioned catalog card on the verso of the title page. It is created by the Library of Congress Cataloging In Publication program. It is a good source for call numbers and subject headings.
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Short for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Classic Catalog
The Sierra Classic Catalog is a an online public catalog created automatically by Sierra. It is directly connected to the Sierra server.the Sierra server. Most Marmot libraries are using the Pika discovery system instead of this classic catalog.
Classification Number
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A form of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), commonly used for transmitting information about financial transactions between libraries and vendors. The Sierra acquisitions module is capable of using EDIFACT for importing electronic invoices from vendors.
Enumeration
Numbering, as in serial volume and issue numbering.
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A field is one or more elements of data in a record. In MARC they are are identified by three digit MARC tags. Typically, data elements are grouped together within fields according to groupings used within traditional catalog records. For example, the place of publication, the publisher name, and the date of publication are all included as part of the MARC field tagged 264.
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Now called Primary Access Point. This is usually a MARC field beginning with 1, it can also be a title if there is no 1xx (see Title Main Entry). It may be a personal author (100), corporate author (110), meeting author (111), or uniform title (130). There should only be a single one of these in any MARC record, or title (245). Usually used as the basis of the cutter number.
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