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MARC Cataloging: Special Formats

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Non-Print Materials

Sources of materials
Searching in Connexion

Cartographic materials

Introduction
Incoming cartographic materials
- Sources of materials
- Types of materials
Searching in Connexion
Editing guidelines
Physical processing
- Barcodes
- Call numbers
Post-editing processing guidelines

CD-ROMs / DVD-ROMs

Sources of materials
Searching in Connexion

Electronic resources

e-books
e-serials and e-journals

Barcodes
Call numbers
Continuations
Sending microforms to the libraries

Editing guidelines
- Fixed field
- Variable fields
Works published both as book and as microform

Music materials

Types of materials (in descending order of frequency)
Sources of materials

Videos (Non-music)

Introduction
Editing guidelines
- Fixed fields
- Variable fields
Feature films
Assigning call numbers and subject headings to feature film copy