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About this course

Format: Self-paced course
Developed by: WebJunction and the Idaho Commission for Libraries
Length: 2 hours

Overview:
In this course, you'll learn about MARC records and what makes a quality bibliographic record. This knowledge will build the foundation for your copy cataloging skills. It is strongly encouraged to download the handouts before beginning this course because they contain essential information for learning this content.

Learning objectives:
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Match the correct bibliographic record to an item 
  • Recognize problems in bibliographic records 
  • Apply what you’ve learned to accurately add a bibliographic record to the catalog
  • Interpret the most commonly used fields of a MARC record when copy cataloging

This course contains AI-generated text-to-speech.

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