‘Multiple Issues!’ – ARLIS/UK & Ireland serials cataloguing event – online
Please find below the details of an upcoming online event, to be held on Friday 10th March 2023, 10.00am-12.30pm.
This session will be formed of two parts:
10.00-11.00am – A serials cataloguing training session, led by Lluis Tembleque Teres, Librarian at the Museum of London.
11.00-11.15am – Break
11.15-12.30pm – An interactive session to discuss serials cataloguing practices in your own libraries, led by the ARLIS Serials Committee
To book your free place via Eventbrite please visit the link below. Places are limited:
You are welcome to attend just the training if you do not also wish to attend the interactive session. The training will also be recorded and made available on the ARLIS YouTube channel.
Please find below further details on the event:
10.00-11.00am – A serials cataloguing training session, led by Lluis Tembleque Teres, Librarian at the Museum of London.
Do you know how to catalogue a serial? Many of us have been taught how to catalogue a book, but have had less experience of, or support in, cataloguing other formats. Lluis Tembleque Teres joins us to demystify a serial record, and highlight what to watch out for when cataloguing a serial. Lluis’ training will include:
- Identifying which fields are unique to serials and how to populate them
- A look at predictions and holdings
- Everyone’s favourite nightmares: monographs in series, single copies, auction catalogues, and such
- Promoting your serials
- Q+A session
Lluis has over fifteen years’ experience managing library collections dedicated to the Arts, Ancient History and Archaeology. Since starting his librarianship journey at the British Museum, Lluis has worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Institute of Classical Studies and the Museum of London. Lluis has a strong interest in cataloguing and controlled vocabulary, including periodicals and journals, often the lesser loved of the library resources. At the British Museum, for example, he catalogued over a thousand anthropology serials in non-English languages.
At the moment, alongside delivering the library service as a solo librarian, Lluis is auditing and recataloguing the complete book collection at the Museum of London, in preparation for their move to a new venue. Other streams of work taking place are the promotion (internally and externally) of the collections, their rationalisation and development.
This session will assume basic cataloguing knowledge but not advanced cataloguing. If you’re completely new to cataloguing, do watch Victoria Parkinson’s “An Introduction to Cataloguing” and “Catalogue That!” presented by Amy Staniforth, Simon French and Lloyd Roderick.
11.15-12.30pm – An interactive session to discuss serials cataloguing practices in your own libraries, led by the ARLIS Serials Committee
Following the training session, we invite participants to join us for an informal workshop to discuss and compare serials cataloguing practices in your own libraries. We’ll consider and share the barriers you come up against and factors you need to consider to prioritise how you catalogue your collection.
Do you have a Serials module managing predictions as part of your LMS? Do you enter holdings manually (or at all)? How are you cataloguing single issues? How do you make library users aware of print and electronic access to journals on the library catalogue? Is lack of staff time a factor?
We’ll split into small breakout groups to talk through the issues, and then come back together for a wider discussion to help us navigate some of these compromises.
This is an interactive session, so please have a think beforehand about what the issues are in your own library and come ready to share! The notes which we collaborate on will be made available to all participants after the session.