VIVA Cataloging

Task Force Charge

"VIVACat" enhances intellectual access to VIVA electronic resources, maintains guidelines for MARC cataloging, shares bibliographic records, explores emerging bibliographic and metadata standards, and promotes new technologies for digital resource organization.

Membership

Althea Aschmann (VPI); Karen Cary (VCU); Elaine Day (JMU, chair); Nadine Ellero (UVa); Billie Hackney (ODU); Trish Kearns(W&M); Polly Khater(GMU); Charles Lewis (JSRCC); Gail McClenney (VSU); Daniel McShane (UVa)  E-mail all members

Minutes

February 2001 | August 2000 | June 2000 | April 2000 | February 2000 | December 1999 | November 1999 | October 1999 | July 1999 | February 1999 | October 1998 | April 1998 | November 1997 | September 1997 | April 1997 | January 1997 | December 1996

Cataloging Guidelines

VIVA Guidelines for Cataloging and Intellectual Access are intended to help member libraries provide Web access to VIVA electronic resources. Examples illustrate MARC-based cataloging from Web OPACs at VIVA institutions having a wide range of online systems software.

Projects

Guidelines revision | OCLC CORC | Scripts | Chadwyck-Healey poetry analytics

Programs

Cataloging Electronic Resources (Charlottesville, Va. : May 7, 1999) | Access to Electronic Journals in Aggregator Databases (Richmond, Va. : January 7, 2000)

VIVACAT-L (Virginia Residents)

An open majordomo discussion list to promote communication among Virginia librarians about issues related to cataloging VIVA electronic resources.  To subscribe, submit an email message to: majordomo@virginia.edu, with message text:
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