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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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A full range of processing options can provide shelf-ready books or loose components for new material processing at the library. For more information about our physical processing options, click here.
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Standard Cataloging
Speed your new materials into circulation by allowing Brodart to complete the time-consuming details of cataloging and processing. Your patrons will have the materials in their hands faster, and your staff will have more time for other valuable activities. Our basic cataloging and processing options are flexible and affordable.
You may choose Dewey or LC classifications, Sears, LC, or LCAC subject headings, or even supply your own call numbers. In addition, brief customized item records and smart barcodes can be supplied to minimize bibliographic record maintenance before new items can be circulated.
With material in hand, our catalogers will search the LC MARC database. They will review, modify, and upgrade the Library of Congress record or provide original MARC cataloging. MARC and item records can be shipped in a variety of formats compatible with your local library management software or via FTP download.
MARC Records
The five MARC 21 communication formats are widely used standards for the representation and exchange of bibliographic, authority, holdings, classification, and community information data in machine-readable form. These formats are:
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MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data
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MARC 21 Format for Authority Data
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MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data
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MARC 21 Format for Classification Data
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MARC 21 Format for Community Data
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A MARC record is composed of three elements: the record structure, the content designation, and the data content of the record. The record structure is an implementation of the international standard Format for Information Exchange (ISO 2709) and its American counterpart, Bibliographic Information Interchange (ANSI/NISO Z39.2).
The content designation - the codes and conventions established explicitly to identify and further characterize the data elements within a record and to support the manipulation of that data - is defined by each of the MARC formats. The content of the data elements that comprise a MARC record is usually defined by standards outside the formats. Examples are the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD), Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, or other cataloging rules, subject thesauri, and classification schedules used by the organization that creates a record. The content of certain coded data elements is defined in the MARC formats (e.g., the Leader, field 007, field 008).
The MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data: Including Guidelines for Content Designation, defines the codes and conventions (tags, indicators, subfield codes, and coded values) that identify data elements in the MARC bibliographic records.
Description of Record Parts
A MARC bibliographic record consists of three main components: the Leader, the Directory and Variable Fields. The following information summarizes the structure of a MARC record.
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Leader - Data elements that provide information for the processing of the record. The data elements contain numbers or coded values and are identified by relative character position. The Leader is fixed in length at 24 character positions and is the first field of a MARC record.
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Directory - A series of entries that contain the tag, length, and starting location of each variable field within a record. Each entry is 12 character positions in length. Directory entries for variable control fields appear first, sequenced by tag in increasing numerical order. Entries for variable data fields follow, arranged in ascending order according to the first character of the tag. The stored sequence of the variable data fields in a record does not necessarily correspond to the order of the corresponding Directory entries. Duplicate tags are distinguished only by location of the respective fields within a record. The Directory ends with a field terminator character (ASCII 1E hex).
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Variable Field - The data in a MARC bibliographic record is organized into variable fields, each identified by a three-character numeric tag that is stored in the Directory entry for the field.
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Sears Subject Headings and Dewey Classification
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Sears - Sears List of Subject Headings - List of subject headings accompanying Dewey numbers primarily used by small to medium sized public and school libraries.
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Dewey Classification - The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system, devised by library pioneer Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and owned by OCLC since 1988, provides a dynamic structure for the organization of library collections. Now in its 22nd edition, and available in print and Web versions, the DDC is the world's most widely used library classification system.
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The Benefits and Features of Dewey Classification Records
MARC Records provide a logical system for organizing every item in your library's unique collection. They also offer library users the familiarity and consistency of a time-honored classification system used in 200,000 libraries worldwide.
Plus, classification standards are available in print and Web formats, and full and abridged editions. The DDC provides meaningful notation in universally recognized Arabic numerals, well-defined categories and hierarchies, and a rich network of relationships among topics.
LC Classification
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The Library of Congress classification system is one which organizes books and other library materials by subject to make it easier to browse the shelves for materials on a specific topic. Library of Congress call numbers always begin with letters of the alphabet. The letters identify the subject of the work. Although LC divides subjects into broad categories, it is essentially enumerative in nature.
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