This Webinar was presented on Wednesday, April 6, 2016
This session will briefly introduce the history of LCC and the general principles of classification. Participants will be introduced to the Classification and Shelf-listing Manual and learn how to make use of Classification Web, Authorities.loc.gov, and the freely-available LCC schedules to select classification numbers. There will be special focus on the use of the LC Cutter table and when to use it.
At the conclusion participants will be able to: describe the principles of classification; select appropriate LCC class numbers based on the subject analysis of the resource, and; construct appropriate Cutters for topics and authorized access points.
Presented by: Bobby Bothmann
Bobby Bothmann is metadata & emerging technologies librarian at Minnesota State University, Mankato where he holds the rank of professor in Library Services. Bobby’s primary duties include cataloging books and electronic resources, managing large files full of MARC records, investigating mobile resources and other new technologies, and attending a lot of meetings. Bobby has been an active member of OLAC (OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers) since fall 2000 and has served in various leadership roles including treasurer and president.
He is a standing member of the editorial board and former Cataloging News editor for Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. He holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee UWM and an MS in Geography and English Technical Communication from MSU Mankato. Bobby also moonlights an adjunct instructor for the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he teaches cataloging and classification courses and tries to covert one student per semester to the cataloging side of the Force.
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