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Cataloging

TBLC provides bibliographic services to members through current, retrospective, and special collections cataloging, OCLC batchloading, CatExpress, workshops, a special interest group, and an electronic mailing list. The Bibliographic Services Coordinator also serves as a resource for cataloging questions and MARC record, database, and authority control issues.

TBLC works with SOLINET, the OCLC regional network, and OCLC to help member libraries maintain their local databases, add holdings to the OCLC WorldCat database, and lend and borrow materials with other libraries in the state and region.

Workshops
TBLC's Continuing Education program offers several cataloging workshops each year. Topics have included Introduction to MARC, MARC cataloging for books, serials, videos, sound recordings, and electronic resources, LC classification and subject headings, Dewey classification, and Authority Control. Check the Continuing Education page for quarterly schedules and more information on course offerings.

Cataloging Special Interest Group (CatSIG)
The Cataloging Special Interest Group meets quarterly to discuss current topics of cataloging interest. The group usually meets at a member library and always includes lunch in the meeting plans. Past topics have included CORC, ebooks, employee evaluations, policies and procedures manuals, authority control, and special collections. Meetings are announced on the tblcats electronic mailing list and to library staff who indicate their interest in their entry in the membership directory. Contact Michelle Oleson at olesonm@tblc.org to add or update your entry.

Tblcats
TBLC maintains a number of electronic mailing lists for librarians in the Tampa Bay area. The Tblcats list is the mailing list reserved for cataloging issues. Subscribers may post questions about the policies and practices of other libraries, cataloging rules, and any other cataloging issue they wish to hear more about from other catalogers. Visit the Tblcats page to sign up for the list or check the archives of past postings.

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