Quality is Key

We've got your number... Call Number, that is!

We know our catalog records are of the very highest quality and so we invite you to compare us to anyone else! When you order those buy-in-bulk MARC records, look closely - there may be something missing...

Where is the Info?

Ask for sample records from us and any other cataloging company...and compare them! We are more than happy to provide sample records for any and all of our collections of records.

Your Users don't always know the titles of the item they need. Very often their search begins with a "subject" or "keyword" search and if your MARC catalog records have no subject headings, none of these items will retrieve for your researcher.

Your Budget is very important! Your library undoubtedly subscribes to many digital resources and we know that you want to make sure your users are finding that content easily!

The Content of your MARC Catalog Records is just as important as the content it represents. As far as your user is concerned, if an item is not retrievable, the library doesn't have it! If your MARC records are outdated or incorrect, they can lead the user to a dead end.

Cassidy Cataloguing is the official cataloger of W.S. Hein and Thomson Reuters West, and a cataloging partner of LexisNexis and Wolters Kluwer. This means we have an open channel of communication with the publisher and receive advanced and proprietary knowledge of when a title is no longer held, when new titles are available and when something has changed. We create, or update, the catalog records to match this information. Records are then sent to you as part of our Monthly Update Service.

Click here to see a comparison of records.

Better MARC Records → More Successful Searches → More Satisfied Users & Researchers → Support For the Library!

AALL 2011

We wanted to take a moment to thank those of you who turned out for Joni's presentation, "GIGO: New Discovery Tools Powered By Good Cataloging", at the Hein booth during the AALL conference this year! The presentation explained the importance for good cataloging, especially when utilizing a discovery platform which overlays your library's catalog.

Click here to view the presentation and notes.

We also wanted to sincerely thank all of you who came to our Subscriber Dinner on Monday night. It was so nice to meet many of you for the first time! (And, of course, to see familiar faces!) We had a great time and hope you did too.

Cassidy's Plans for RDA

Our current plan for implementation of RDA

We have had many inquiries regarding our plan for conversion to RDA and our president, Joni Cassidy, would like to make a brief statement announcing our plans at the current time. Our plan is subject to change and much is contingent upon announcements made by the Library of Congress at the American Library Association annual meeting at the end of June 2011.

In April 2011, Joni Cassidy spoke at the NOCALL Spring Institute in San Francisco on RDA. We have been keeping up with what is required cataloguing-wise and awaiting the release of Library of Congress's final report on what part of RDA should be accepted. After the release of the LC final report, we will follow the recommendation of the National Bibliographic community and act accordingly with an eye on the timelines for implementation set forth by LC, SkyRiver, OCLC, and the major software vendors such as Innovative Interfaces and SirsiDynix.

From a MARC21 standpoint, we don't expect to have difficulty adding the new 3xx fields to our Sirsi cataloguing software. We don't intend to convert our current AACR2 database to RDA any time soon. Changes like spelling out the full city and state in the 260$b (publisher location), or giving up the Latin abbreviations [S.l.] and [s.n.] should be easy enough to adopt.

We expect to have to monitor LC most closely in the area of name authorities. That's where we believe the biggest challenge to continuity will take place.

Truthfully, we don't expect anything huge to change overnight. Joni Cassidy graduated from library school in 1978, just as the AACR2 was being introduced. It took several years for the community to catch up, and while everything moves faster now because of automation, she believes that many factors will affect our working timeline.

If you have further questions you can contact Joni directly at joni@cassidycat.com or 973-586-3200.

RDA Presentation

Joni Cassidy's Presentation on RDA

On April 7, 2011, Joni Cassidy gave a presentation just prior to the NOCALL Spring Institute on RDA called "What You Need To Know To Break the Code: RDA - Not Just Jargon for the Back of the House". Click here for a printable PDF version of the presentation.

Some highlights of the presentation

AALL Award

aall awardCassidy Cataloguing Services was awarded the Best New Product Award for 2008 by the American Association of Law Libraries, for our Westlaw and Lexis E-Treatise MARC Record Collections Lexis II: Primary Source MARC Record Collections and Westlaw IV: Law Journals & Law Reviews MARC Record Collection.

We are very proud and honored to have been nominated and chosen for this award.

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