Cataloging Still Images with Bobby Bothmann
June 5 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am CDT
RDA instructions for describing Still Image resources, both analog and electronic, include identifying attributes such as base and applied materials, mounts, and uses a variety of terms for the extent. All examples are provided using the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data (MFBD).
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to apply the RDA instructions specific to still images and digital still images. Participants will be introduced to the concept of aggregates.
Bobby Bothmann is a professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato where he serves as the catalog and metadata librarian. Bobby catalogs analog and digital resources of all kinds, including books, serials, moving images, objects, cartographic resources, musical and spoken word audio recordings, and music in between many meetings. Bobby also moonlights as an adjunct instructor for the School of 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.
If you can’t attend the live webinar, register anyway and you’ll receive a link to the webinar recording a few days after the event.
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This project was funded either under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act from the Institute of Museum and Library Services or the Library Cooperative Grant program. Florida’s LSTA and LCG programs are administered by the Department of State’s Division of Library and Information Services. For FY2024, 73% of the total costs for the PLAN Continuing Education program ($223,959) is supported by federal money and 27% of this program ($81,361) is supported by state money. The total budget of the project is $305,320.