Cataloging Electronic Resources

Electronic resources include ebooks, ejournals, electronic devices such as tablets and ebook readers, streaming and downloadable video and audio, and integrating resources. The focus of this workshop is on the RDA instructions specific to electronic resources generally. 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 the various types of electronic resources including content, carrier, and media vocabulary, digital file characteristics, and equipment and system requirements.

Bio

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. He is a member of the editorial board for Cataloging & Classification Quarterly and an active member of OLAC (OnLine Audiovisual Catalogers) where he has served in various leadership roles including treasurer, president, and the current archivist. He holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and an MS in Geography and English Technical Communication from MSU Mankato. Bobby 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.