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Orbis Policies & Procedures

All official policies & procedures organized by category. For an alternative view use the links below under Cataloging in Orbis.

• General (Workflow, Editing, Authority Control, MFHDs & Call Numbers, Item Records, Bound-withs)
• Special formats (E-resources, Video, Mixed Materials, Reproductions, Serials, Multiparts, Cartographic Resources)
• Maintenance & LSF

Cataloging in Orbis

Official policies & procedures, links to resources, work in progress, organized by category on a single page. (For resources in depth, organized by category, click on Cataloging Tools & Resources on the toolbar above)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS (CIP, added copies, variant editions, description & access, authority control & subject analysis)

MFHD (including call number formatting, Orbis location codes, $k, LC classification overview, shelflisting guidelines, trailing X, local SML policies & procedures)

ITEM RECORDS (including the item type table in Excel, & bound-withs)

CATALOGING IN VOYAGER (including the NELINET training manual [revised], Voyager settings, common procedures step-by-step, editing in Voyager, exportQ, Web Voyage)

CATALOGING TOOLS & UTILITIES (MACROEXPRESS, OCLC) (plus links to ClassWeb, Cataloger's Desktop & the Cataloging Calculator)

SPECIAL FORMATS

MULTIPARTS, SERIALS, & SERIES

INTEGRATING RESOURCES, REPRODUCTIONS, & VIDEO

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (CD-ROM & remote)

SCORES & SOUND RECORDINGS

CARTOGRAPHIC, GRAPHIC, & MIXED MATERIALS

GENERAL

CATALOGING STANDARDS (BSR, MLC, MFHD, CONSER, Provider-neutral, Core)

WORKFLOWS (acquisitions-related, preliminary records, catalog maintenance, general and local cataloging workflows)

APPENDICES (Memos, glossary)

 

Chief Catalog Librarian

• Voyager/Cataloging Memos

Feedback

• Catalog Problems [use to report typos & suggested changes to a catalog record]
• Heading Change Request Form 
• Cataloging Problems & Resolutions Blog
• E-Res-Probs [access problems for e-resources purchased by the library]
• Voyager Problems (Email PST) [questions for the IS&P Production Systems Team]

Staff Directories 

• Yale University Library Departments & Staff 
• Library Selectors Directory

Cataloging Committees

• Cataloging Coordinating Council (CCC home page)
• Authority Control Advisory Committee
• Catalog Policy and Documentation Committee
• Manuscript Cataloging Committee
• NACO Coordinating Committee (NCC)
• SACO Coordinating Committee (SCC)

Library Committees

• Orbis 2 Migration
• CCC (Cataloging Coordinating Council) (Standing Committees page)
• CDC (Collection Development Council)
• IAC (Integrated Access Council)
• IAC Metadata Committee
• LMC (Library Management Council)
• Library Standing Committees Website
• LISA (Library Staff Association )
• STOD (Staff Training and Organization Development)
• SCOPA (Standing Committee on Professional Awareness)