Useful Links
cataloging tools
- ALA-LC Romanization Tables
- Cataloging at Yale
- Ending Punctuation for Bibliographic Data
- Fraktur
- OCLC Authority Record Format
- OCLC BibFormats
- Rare Book Toolkit: Directory of Web Resources for the Rare Book Cataloger
- RBMS Bibliographic Standards
dictionaries, thesauri
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- CERL Thesaurus
- Bookbinding: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
- Glossary of Common Latin Terms Found in Imprints
- Glossary of Printmaking Nomenclature
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Latin—English Dictionary
bibliographies, online catalogs
- Biblioteca Nacional (Spain)
- EDIT 16 (Italy)
- English Short Title Catalogue
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ICCU (Italian Union Catalog)
- Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK)
- Printer's Devices
- Short Title Catalog Netherlands
- VD 16 (Germany)
- VD 17 (Germany)
Latin place names
Other projects of note:
MIT currently has a project in-progress which involves cataloging 18th & 19th century materials. They have a planned series of small online exhibits which are accessible directly off of their project page:
The University of Missouri in Kansas City just received a Mellon Grant to catalog transcription discs from their special collections:
The Folger project to create records for early English books is described in Stephen Tabor's article "ESTC and the Bibliographical Community:
Yale University publishes an annual 'action plans' online for their rare book cataloging staff. Here is the plan for 2008/9, which includes cataloging 12,000 monographs and 4,000 serials:
In November 2008, the Council on Library and Information Resources, through generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, awarded Goucher College’s Special Collections and Archives Department a grant to identify and catalog hidden collections:
