Must See Sites for Technical Services: Learning & Laughter

Learn about cataloging and classification! Work at your own pace, at your convenience, with great tutorials: 

Catalogers Learning Workshop (CLW) provides information professionals free training resources related to the organization and classification of bibliographic information.

Core Fundamentals Course Topics including Acquisitions, Cataloging, Metadata and others

Dewey Training Courses From OCLC: Dewey Classification training modules, WebDewey training modules and related materials

Fundamentals  of Library of Congress Classification An authoritative standardized training in the principles and practices of Library of Congress Classification (LCC).

Fundamentals of the NLM Classification  A set of modules and interactive exercises that students may take at their own pace

Librarianship Studies & Information Technology Explanations of several topics in cataloging from the blog by Salman Haider.

• Anglo American Cataloging Rules (AACR)
• Resource Description and Access (RDA)
• Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
• Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
• Authority Control

A series of tutorials from Alternative Basic Library Education (ABLE) Program You will need to create a free account through Web Junction to access these pages.

• Introduction to Technical Services & Catalog Records
• Introduction to Subject Headings
• Introduction to Dewey Classification
• Introduction to the MARC System

Cataloging the Weird Stuff A SlideShare presentation created by Nanette Donohue, Technical Services Manager, Champaign Public Library; sponsored by ILA Resources and Technical Services Forum

Library of Congress tutorial - Call number and Shelving; from Kent State University. Java is needed for this.

Dewey games Flashcards, Matching and Concentration; Java is needed for these

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – e.e. cummings

Dewey Decimal Rap video

Behind the Scenes - Technical Services What happens before a book, CD or other item makes it to the library shelves? Take a fun, tongue-in-cheek, behind the scenes look at the Arlington Heights (Illinois) Memorial Library Technical Services department.

Quotes about catalogers

Some speculate that [catalogers] are aliens from a faraway galaxy who have come to Earth to tidy things up a bit. --Will Manley, American Libraries, July/Aug. 1994

Catalogers do not have OCD.  They have CDO.  It's the same as OCD except the letters are in alphabetical order. -- AUTOCAT discussion list