Testing

Like Amy, I've been allowed to pass the B@rc0d!ng T#st. Yeah. Lucky me.

Sample questions from Part One (because...not linking to the practice test, sorry...):

A. ISBN
B. Serial
C. Imprint
D. Personal name heading
E. Descriptive cataloging

On the blank line, in front of the number put the letter/s of the term defined for that number.
__ 1. Cataloging definition: Publishing information about the bibliographic item; usually gives place of publication, publisher, and date of publication. Publisher efinition: A subsidiary organization to the publisher.
__ 2. Creating the bases of a bibliographic record by describing an item using AACR2R rules; includes transcription of title and statement of responsibility, publication information (imprint), physical description, assigning main and added entries.
__ 3. Publication issued in successive parts, bearing a numeric or chronological designation, and intended to be published indefinitely.
__ 4. Access point in a bibliographic record that represents a specific person responsible for or related to the resource.
__ 5. Publisher’s number, which is a standardized number used since about 1968; books published before that will not have these numbers. Usually found on the t.p. verso or back cover. They are also used for searching and matching bibliographic records.

That was the easy part. How'd you do?

Part Two was matching information like this--

Paramount proudly presents the first picture in Vistavision
A Paramount picture
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Copyright MCMLIV by Paramount Pictures Corporation
Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen
With Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes, John Brascia, Anne Whitfield
Written for the screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Lyrics and music by Irving Berlin
Music direction and vocal arrangements by Joseph J. Lilly
Orchestral arrangements by Van Cleave
Director of photography Loyal Griggs
Art direction Hal Pereira and Roland Anderson
Edited by Frank Bracht
Produced by Robert Emmett Dolan
Directed by Michael Curtiz
On disc and packaging: TM, ® & copyright ©2000 by Paramount Pictures.
[along with blurry photocopies of the case and disc of the DVD in question]

--to records in the catalog and then filling out pages with this sort of info:

You will be given items to locate in the local database. With each item, you will be asked the OCLC record number to which you would attach the item. You will also be asked to select a course of action with the item. You will be given the opportunity, if you find the appropriate bibliographic record in the local database, to attach a barcode to the item and add the item record to the local database using the current standards. Please feel free to provide any additional comment regarding the items.

Item # _____________________________

What are the OCLC numbers of items that you considered as possible matches?
#_____________ #_____________ #_____________
#_____________ #_____________ #_____________
#_____________ #_____________ #_____________
#_____________ #_____________ #_____________
#_____________ #_____________ #_____________

What is the OCLC # of the matching record that you selected?
______________ OCLC # of the matching record.


(Check all that apply to this item.)

__ I attached an item record to this bib record using this barcode _____________

__ There appear to be duplicate records, I would pass this/these records on to
the copy cataloger. (Please * the record which you feel is the better record.)
#_________________________________________________________________
#_________________________________________________________________


__ I would pass this/these records on to the copy cataloger for the following reasons.
#_________________________________________________________________
#_________________________________________________________________
#_________________________________________________________________


__ There was no matching record. I would pass this item on to the copy cataloger.


__ This would be done [using a serial record].

The fact that I don't actually follow this workflow, ever, at my library is completely unaccounted for. I'm the one who would be receiving the problems to sort out...from myself.

On the other hand, I almost never actually ADD item records to the catalog, so the mechanics of that step, while I will need to know, are not exactly critical daily knowledge for me.

This test is testing about four different things that are assumed to be done by one person, but at my library I do three of them myself and someone else does the fourth.

Idiots. Bureaucracy. Morons. Unfunded government mandates. Dickbrains.
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