Cataloging

The ALIA Community on Resource Description (ACORD) is a new ALIA Advisory and Special Interest Group which aims to support the Australian resource description community. ACORD carries forward the role previously played by the Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC), which dissolved in May 2019, after 40 years of serving the Australian cataloguing and resource description community.
 
This document sets out the 2019 ACORD Terms of Reference.

ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 9 (NLS9), 5-7 July 2019 Adelaide: collaborate deviate innovate
 
Recording (MP4 audiovisual) of session on contemporary cataloguing practice - including metadata schema, user-created data and subject analysis, and maintaining MARC records.

ALIA New Librarians' Symposium 9 (NLS9), 5-7 July 2019 Adelaide: collaborate deviate innovate
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) supported the talk on contemporary cataloguing practice - including metadata schema, user-created data and subject analysis, and maintaining MARC records.

ACOC 2018 Seminar, 13 August 2018 Canberra: resource description for the 21st century 
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an overview of MARC and BIBFRAME in resource description and access .
 

ACOC 2018 Seminar, 13 August 2018 Canberra: resource description for the 21st century 
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an overview of the purpose and scope of the Australian Committee on Cataloguing (ACOC), Oceania RDA Committee (ORDAC).
 

ACOC 2018 Seminar, 13 August 2018 Canberra: resource description for the 21st century 
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an overview of describing aggregated and diachronic works.
 

ACOC 2018 Seminar, 13 August 2018 Canberra: resource description for the 21st century 
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an overview of the RDA toolkit and RDA registry.
 

ACOC 2018 Seminar, 13 August 2018 Canberra: resource description for the 21st century 
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an overview of the online RDA toolkit.
 

ACOC 2018 Seminar, 13 August 2018 Canberra: resource description for the 21st century 
 
This presentation (PowerPoint slides) provides an introduction to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Library Reference Model (LRM).
 

National Library and Information Technicians Symposium, 27-29 September 2017 North Sydney: bridge to knowledge
 
This paper discusses the resource description skills library technicians need to acquire to remain relevant in the workplace.