Practical Applications of Library of Congress Classificaton

 

Live Online March 15, 2017, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

 

 

This session will address special problems in LCC call numbers for specific classes and problems identified by participants. Participants will also discuss their approaches to solving the practice problems from the in-person session on January 27,

 

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to evaluate approaches to LCC call number construction for specified classes.  

 

 

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.​