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Written on Friday, November 21, 2008
Last Updated on Monday, December 29, 2008

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Chapter 6: Technical Services
6.1 What's New
6.2 Definition of Technical Services
6.3 Technical Service Functions
6.4 Depository Shipments
6.5 Shipping Lists
6.6 Receipt: Corrected Copies
6.7 Receipt: Duplicate Pubs and Shipments
6.8 Shortages in Shipments
6.9 Claiming Missing Pubs in Shipments
6.10 Cataloging Overview
6.11 Resources for Cataloging and Processing
6.12 Tips and Lessons Learned
6.13 You Don't Have to...
6.14 Important
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6.11 Resources That Assist With Cataloging and Processing Depository Materials

6.11.A Cataloging Resources

  • Andrew, Paige G. Cataloging Sheet Maps: The Basics. Paige G. Andrew. New York: Haworth, c2003.
  • Andrew, Paige G. and Mary Lynette Larsgaard. Maps and Related Cartographic Materials: Cataloging, Classification, and Bibliographic Control. New York: Haworth, 1999. (Also published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, v.27, nos. ½-3/4, 1999.)
  • “Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Maps” Administrative Notes,  June 15, 2001.
  • Cartographic Materials: A Manual of Interpretation for AACR2, 2002 Revision, prepared by the Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association. 2003, with updates.
  • Chan, Lois Mai. Cataloging and classification: An update. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 1994.
  • DocTech-L. An electronic discussion list that focuses on processing government publications.
  • Government Documents Roundtable. Toolbox for Cataloging and Processing Federal Government Documents. (accessed August 28, 2006).
  • Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office. (accessed August 28, 2006).
  • Library of Congress. MARC standards. (accessed August 28, 2006).
  • Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division. Map Cataloging Manual. Washington, D.C.: The Division, 1991.
  • Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, RDA: Resource Description and Access (accessed August 28, 2006).
  • U.S. Government Printing Office. Cataloging and Indexing Program. (accessed August 28, 2006).
  • U.S. Government Printing Office. "GPO Cataloging Guidelines” (Washington, D.C.: U.S. GPO, 2002), (accessed August 28, 2006).

6.11.B Processing Resources

  • Government Documents Round Table. GODORT Handout Exchange: Processing Procedures (accessed August 28, 2006).
  • University at Buffalo – GPO official partnership. Enhanced Shipping List Service.  Automatically check your inclusion list against shipping lists, prints call number labels or save the label file for your library to print label.
  • U.S. Government Printing Office. FDLP Federal Bulletin Board Files (accessed August 28, 2006). Includes dbf shipping list files, ASCII text versions of important FDLP publications, and dbf and text files for the underlying data in FDLP Desktop searchable databases (for example, Item Lister).
  • U.S. Government Printing Office.  The FDLP Desktop provides tools and resources to assist you in the day-to-day processing and handling of depository materials to meet these bibliographic control and collection maintenance requirements.
  • U.S. Government Printing Office. WEBTech Notes. (accessed August 28, 2006). WEBTech Notes is a searchable database of information from the Administrative Notes Technical Supplement. Updated weekly, it is cumulative back to 1991.
  • U.S. Government Printing Office. Administrative Notes Technical Supplement (ANTS). ANTS is a monthly newsletter which updates various FDLP related publications, directories, depository listings, etc. Some inquiries result in corrects to SuDocs classification numbers, items, etc. These changes are also published in ANTS and posted to WEBTech Notes.
  • Wichita State University Libraries and Computer Center. Documents Data Miner 2. (accessed January 22, 2007) DDM2 is a search engine combining files from the latest version of the List of Classes, Current Item Number Selection Profiles for Depository Libraries, and the Federal Depository Library Directory.