This Webinar was held on January 11, 2017
This webinar reviewed basics of title changes under RDA cataloging principles, focusing on major and minor title changes. At the end of the session participants will be given a series of journals to catalog for hands-on work with major and minor title changes. Participants will review the cataloging with the instructor at the in-person session. The webinar is the first of a suite of trainings on Serials.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to distinguish between major and minor title changes, understand when to create new descriptions, and construct accurate descriptions of journals with major title changes.
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.