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April 2025: Accessibility metadata in bibliographic records

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Accessibility metadata helps patrons find resources that meet their specific accessibility needs and informs them of accessibility hazards such as motion simulations. Because there are many RDA elements and MARC fields where this information may be recorded, a keyword search for "accessibility" in BFAS or RDA may not provide the answer for which data element is needed. Kate James and Morris Levy will discuss MARC fields obvious (341 and 532) and not so obvious (041, 340, 546) used for this metadata along with corresponding RDA instructions.

March 2025: The mysteries of bibliographic encoding levels

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People often ask these questions about encoding levels: what makes up a minimal, less than minimal, or full record?; what does encoding level M mean?; what encoding level is used for vendor records? These questions and more will be answered as Cynthia Whitacre and Laura Ramsey share information on bibliographic encoding levels for WorldCat records.

February 2025: Introduction to fields used in continuing resource records

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Have you ever looked at a serial or integrating resource record and wondered about the different fields that are used? Join Robin Six and Charlene Morrison as they provide an introduction to the various fields used to catalog continuing resources. The presentation will include examples to give the attendees a basic understanding of these fields in a bibliographic record.