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Blog > Services > Resources > Cataloging > Procedures > General cataloging

General cataloging

  • Acronyms and Various Cataloging Terms
  • Contents Notes for 505
  •      Items With a Collective Title
  •      Items Without a Collective Title
  •      Enhanced Contents Notes Examples
  •      Example of Contents Notes for Music
  • Controlling series with numbering in OCLC
  • Descriptive Cataloging for Monographs
  • Dates in Bibliographic Records
  • Dewey Decimal Classification for Public Services
  • Ending Punctuation
  • Enhancing the 505 in OCLC
  • Field 246
  • Foreign Language Materials
  • MARC Coding
  • Notes for Books
  • Notes in AACR2R Order
  • Paperbacks & Hardbacks
  • Pinning Records in OCLC
  • Plates
  • Repeatable 260 field
  • Reprints and Reproductions
  • Summary notes: guidelines and examples
  • Uniform Titles
  • Using Text Strings in OCLC
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