Metadata Creation

Metadata Creation specializes in creating descriptive and discovery metadata for library resources including monographs, most non-books materials, and digital objects. Catalogers in the Unit apply PCC standards as a default and contribute to the BIBCO, NACO, and SACO cooperative cataloging programs, including the NACO Hebraica Funnel hosted at Stanford.

For questions about Metadata Creation, please contact the interim unit head Kay Teel.

MARC Cataloging

Metadata Creation in Metadata Services is responsible for original cataloging of monographs of the following types:

• Rush and priority requests without valid LC subject access points
• Reference materials without valid LC subject access points
• Slavic belles lettres
• Variant editions
• Microforms with no usable copy
• U.S. government documents and UN documents
• Hebrew and Slavic language monographs for Special Collections
• Other selected monographs in need of original cataloging

as well as original and copy cataloging of:

• Audio-visual (media) materials
• Electronic resources (including computer files and internet resources)
• Serials, including serials for Special Collections
• Materials in Middle Eastern and Central Asia languages in Arabic script, other languages that use Arabic script
• Turkish language materials

The Unit does not catalog:

• Monographs with available copy (copy cataloging done by Monographic Receiving, Acquisitions Department)
• Monographs with copy but lacking usable call numbers (call numbers assigned by the Classification Unit)
• Monographs without copy falling outside of scope of the Unit
• Maps and atlases (cataloged by Branner Earth Sciences Library)
• Scores and sound recordings (cataloged by Music Library)
• Monographs for Special Collections Library (cataloged by Special Collections), except for Arabic, Hebrew/Yiddish, Slavic, and Turkish languages
• Materials in CJK languages

This unit's documentation has been moved to Metadata Services and Metadata Cretion spaces on Consul (restricted access)