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What We Do
Cataloging is responsible for creating bibliographic and holding records for materials and electronic resources for the online catalog. We also maintain the catalog and establish name and subject authority control. We catalog materials in a number of formats including printed and electronic books, serials (e.g., journals, magazines, and newspapers), audiovisual materials, audiocassettes, videos, DVDs, maps, and microform. Physical Processing prepares materials for shelving and circulation by labeling, stamping, and security stripping them.Back to top
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Where We Do It
Our team catalogs materials for the Library located in the John D. Messick Learning Resources Center (LRC) of the University. Besides cataloging the materials in the main collection, which is located on the fourth and fifth floors of the LRC, we also catalog those in several special collections including the
William Sanford LaSor Collection, the Elmar Camillo Dos Santos Collection, and the Jewish Theological Seminary Collection (LRC fourth floor); the Curriculum Media Center and the Holy Spirit Research Center (LRC fifth floor), and the music collection (the Timko-Barton building). We also provide bibliographic and holding records for Temple Israel (Tulsa, Oklahoma) as well as for ORU affiliates, Livets Ord (Sweden) and Peniel College (U.K.). The Cataloging offices are on the fourth floor of the Graduate Center immediately adjacent to the Periodicals area. Back to top
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How We Do It
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perform our cataloging tasks with the use of an online computer system and the OCLC database. We are currently transitioning from the classic Dynix system to Innovative Interfaces's Millennium. Millennium is an integrated online library system that includes
modules for acquisitions, cataloging, serials, reserves, reports, and inventory
as well as a public access catalog (WebiPac). The OCLC database (also known as WorldCat)
contains over 100,000,000 bibliographic records contributed by 60,000 libraries worldwide.
We catalogers either modify OCLC records and download them into the online catalog, or, if copy cataloging cannot be found, create new catalog
records which we contribute to OCLC. We also use Cataloger's Desktop which
includes such standard library manuals as Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules,
2nd edition (AACR2) as well as Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRI),
Subject Cataloging Manuals, and USMARC Formats. Other tools include: Classification
Web, OCLC Connexion, EBSCOhost Serials Directory for serials cataloging, and
Bibliographic Standards and Formats for guidance in using MARC (Machine
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Why We Do It
Accurate,
up-to-date bibliographic and holding records along with user-friendly electronic
database searching capabilities give library users consistent and dependable
access to ORU library collections as well as to remote databases such as those
in FirstSearch, EBSCOhost, and GaleGroup.
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