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If you are interested in information about our cataloging services, please call or email us:
PRODUCT & SERVICE INFORMATION
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Phone: (800) 474-9816
Email: support@brodart.com
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If you are uncertain where to find help at Brodart, start by contacting our customer service department:
CUSTOMER SERVICE
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Phone: (800) 474-9802
Email: bookscs@brodart.com
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For more information on the various types of cataloging available from Brodart, click the link below that interests you:
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For information on Standard Cataloging specifications and pricing, click here.
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To learn more about Customized Cataloging, click here.
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Brodart Cataloging Overview
Brodart bases it descriptive cataloging on the most widely accepted standard, AACR2 Revised and accompanying Library of Congress Rule Interpretations. We adhere to the Library of Congress rules for both MARC format and authority control. Of course, individual libraries deviate from these practices, using local practices and policies. What's more, individual libraries localize other elements of a record. Brodart alters its standards to accommodate these changes as well.
In order to provide high quality records that incorporate local requirements, we profile cataloging needs, library-by-library. These special instructions allow us to either programmatically and/or manually alter standard records to precisely suit a library's requirements. As a result, cataloging at Brodart is provided in two broad categories.
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Standard Cataloging
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Customized Cataloging
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The differences between them depend on the extent to which a "standard" record is customized to meet your library's needs. Generally speaking, these customizations are made either programmatically (using computerized data management from a Profile prepared for you) or professionally (monitored and/or manually input by a trained cataloging librarian) or a combination of programmatic and professional customizations.
The Records
Standard Cataloging - We maintain an enormous database of full level bibliographic records originally cataloged with material in hand. These records follow AACR2 and LCRI rules. We deliver these records to you in a machine-readable format per your specifications.
A significant number of customizations to Standard records can be made within the pricing parameters Brodart considers "standard." That is, at no significant cost increase. We deliver these base-price, bibliographic records with profile-driven classifications and holdings records individualized for your library. (Note that Standard records include the call number/classification number assigned by the Library of Congress. The length of this number is programmable, however.) In order to be priced as Standard records, all such customizations must be profile-driven and performed programmatically. Thus, to sum up Standard Cataloging:
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Includes a full level bibliographic record.
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Offers a choice of Dewey or LC classifications.
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Provides a choice of Sears, LC or LCAC subject headings.
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Includes programmatic local customization at no charge.
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Supplied call numbers are available.
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Account management reports are provided regularly.
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Smart barcodes are available.
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Customized Cataloging - Brodart's Customized Cataloging service applies additional programmatic and manual changes to your records. Our customized cataloging delivers bibliographic records, classifications and holdings records that are individualized for your library in virtually any way.
Customized cataloging guarantees full level records for any item we provide, regardless of whether the record exists in our database. In other words, we catalog new material for you whenever original, material-in-hand cataloging is required to enhance or upgrade an existing record. When no record exists, we create one from scratch. We follow your non-standard / local practices, and also provide authority control. What's more, we work with your library to complete or upgrade existing records if this is required. Of course, we enhance records as necessary to add non-standard content. Customized Cataloging includes:
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Material-in-hand cataloging.
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Customized bibliographic records in MARC format.
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Classification tailored to fit within your library's existing collection.
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Customized holding records.
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Subject authority processing.
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Name authority processing
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Account management reports are delivered regularly.
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The Costs
Standard Cataloging - A Standard Catalog Record from Brodart is a full-level record that we provide from our internal, proprietary database of records or one that we retrieve on your behalf from some other source. Base records cost $0.25 each. Programmatic (computer-driven) changes to this record (creating a Customized record) are free.
For information on the wide variety of free, programmatic alterations Brodart can apply to your records, click here.
Customized Cataloging - Customized Cataloging requires either the professional creation (from scratch) of a record with material in hand or the adaptation of an existing record using the same manual process. Since this process depends on both the work performed and the quality of the available "source" record, Customized Cataloging is often priced depending on the existing record that is available to Brodart.
The following outlines the different cataloging processes Brodart performs to customize records. Pricing for these processes depends on specific Profile requirements. For customized cataloging Profiling information, click Profiles.
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Customer Record - This record type is applicable when an acceptable record is found in your database and as a result no editing is required.
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Copy Cataloging - When a full-level, Level 7 or Level 4 LC MARC record is available to Brodart from our own resources (or from a source you provide) and it is added to your database with little editing performed on the LC record.
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Upgraded Record - "Upgrading" can include a great number of manual changes to a record, generally performed to fix inaccuracies or omissions. For example, a Level 8 monograph record requires full upgrading (LC MARC or customer database); a Level 7 LC MARC record requires full upgrading; or, an LC MARC record for previous edition is fully upgraded to match the new edition on hand (includes hardcover to paperback or regular print to large print.
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Adapted Cataloging - When no matching LC MARC record is found, but an acceptable record is available from another source and some format editing is required. For example, when Name and Subject Authority verification is required or verification (or creation) of a call number is required. Also, when a Level 7 MARC monograph record is available and a classification number must be created and some formatting performed.
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Original Cataloging - When a "blank screen" record is created or a Level 5 MARC record is completed. For instance, when Name and Subject headings are assigned and/or a call number is created.
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Enhanced Record - "Enhancing" involves the addition of locally significant information into a record, with material in hand. Typical enhancements include contents notes, additional tracings, local subject headings and local authority control.
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More Information
For more information on Standard Cataloging, click Standard. For more information on Customized Cataloging, click Customized.
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