When: Sept 22 – Nov 16, 2025 (8 weeks)
Where: Online & Asynchronous
Cost: $360 (Register 2 weeks early for 10% off)
CE Credit: 2.6 CEUs/26 LEUs
Program#: 316426
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Designed for librarians and library workers in all library settings, this course serves as a basic introduction to the principles of information organization emphasizing current cataloging practices and MARC cataloging records.
Participants will learn the basic fields necessary to create MARC records, perform descriptive and subjective cataloging, assign Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classification numbers, and use authority records to create controlled access points.
Learning outcomes:
- Reading and understanding MARC catalog records
- OCLC: WorldCat
- MARC format
- Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classification systems
- Subject cataloging, with an emphasis on Library of Congress subject headings
- Authority control
- Electronic resources and library cataloging
- Anglo-American Catalog Rules 2nd revision (AACR2) and Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Course Audience: This course is best for people who do cataloging in a public or academic library.
Instructor
Susan Guthrie is the Assistant Director at the Puskarich Public Library in Cadiz, Ohio. She earned a BA in English from Concord University in Athens, West Virginia, and her MLIS from Kent State University. She began her career as an English instructor, worked in an academic library for several years, and then taught courses in the Library and Information Services department at Belmont College. She now works full-time in a small public library where she has the opportunity to wear many hats. Between being at the library and spending time with her family, she loves hiking and traveling to the mountains of Virginia.