A
"catalog record" is a short description or summary of an item, such as a book or a product, that you can find in a catalog. It usually includes important details like the title, author or creator, year of publication, and sometimes information about the content or description of the item. It helps people quickly get an idea of what the item is about and whether they want to find out more or borrow it.
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The Westchester Library System (WLS) is pleased to announce that patrons can now view the
library catalog records via basic browser searches.
Librarians use it to locate a specific Library of Congress
catalog record in the national databases and to order catalog cards from the Library of Congress or from commercial suppliers.
SkyRiver will facilitate a comprehensive audit of CLiC's AspenCat union catalog, and ultimately, will offer the consortium's 400 libraries a source
of cataloging records.
The Westchester Library System (WLS) is pleased to announce that patrons can now view
catalog records via basic browser searches.Patrons using popular search engines, like Google, Bing, Siri and Yahoo, can find library item records in search engine results when searching for a title and including «Westchester Library System.»
The British
Library catalog record describes this resource as follows: «A growing collection of life story interviews with lawyers, solicitors, barristers and other members of the legal profession in Britain.»
The increase in relevance means that engines will be able to deliver library
catalog records without requiring that «Westchester Library System» be included in the search.
Patrons using popular search engines, like Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, can easily find the
item catalog records in search engine results when they search for a title and include «Westchester Library System.»
Its fabulous
softbound catalog records the show's own superb design, by the artist Nick Mauss, who also made all the unique stenciled - cloth covers.
Everything was recorded in
catalog records which are decorated with «striking» portraits of exhibitors and zany references.
Previously,
library catalog records could not be found on search engines because library records, known as MARC records, can not be read by search engine crawlers.
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world — approximately 266,000
catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas.
It comes in the form of a block of text which is inserted into a copyright page; in addition, an electronic version of
the catalog record is sent to OCLC and SkyRiver, two major cataloging databases.
«A Library of Congress catalog control number is a unique identification number that the Library of Congress assigns to
the catalog record created for each book in its cataloged collections.
As a result, Chandler is pulling
her catalog records for the Harry Potter ebooks, as patrons have no way to locate the titles to reserve them.
By using «pure» cataloging, law libraries can purchase standard
cataloging records and better automates their cataloging and purchase of labels for their new books instead of having to either create or search for a customized KF cataloging record.