My explanation/analogy for explaining analyzed titles, aka analytics to new staff:You and your sister share the same DNA (bibliographic information), but you do not share the same last name because she is married and changed her name. Analytics are kind of like that -- they are individual people FIRST (so we catalog them on a mono record), but then to tie them to their families we give them a new last name (in the case of books -- call numbers and series statement).

My explanation/analogy for explaining analyzed titles, aka analytics to new staff:You and your sister share the same DNA (bibliographic information), but you do not share the same last name because she is married and changed her name. Analytics are kind of like that -- they are individual people FIRST (so we catalog them on a mono record), but then to tie them to their families we give them a new last name (in the case of books -- call numbers and series statement).

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OCLC invites you to join us for a free, live webinar entitled:Cataloging Defensively: ‘When to Input a New Record’ in the Age of DDR.Description: OCLC’s “When to Input a New Record”http://www.oclc.org/us/en/bibformats/en/input/default.shtm#CHDBCBBA, a chapter contained in Bibliographic Formats and Standards, provides a common basis for decision-making in the creation of WorldCat records by member libraries.

OCLC invites you to join us for a free, live webinar entitled:Cataloging Defensively: ‘When to Input a New Record’ in the Age of DDR.Description: OCLC’s “When to Input a New Record”http://www.oclc.org/us/en/bibformats/en/input/default.shtm#CHDBCBBA, a chapter contained in Bibliographic Formats and Standards, provides a common basis for decision-making in the creation of WorldCat records by member libraries.

Sounds interesting...--------------Indiana University is pleased to announce the public (very Beta) release of Scherzo, a music discovery system designed as a testbed of the FRBR conceptual model. The system may be accessed at http://vfrbr.info/search . A product of the IMLS-funded Variations/FRBR project, Scherzo is an early proof of concept for what a library catalog built according to FRBR principles might look like.

Sounds interesting...--------------Indiana University is pleased to announce the public (very Beta) release of Scherzo, a music discovery system designed as a testbed of the FRBR conceptual model. The system may be accessed at http://vfrbr.info/search . A product of the IMLS-funded Variations/FRBR project, Scherzo is an early proof of concept for what a library catalog built according to FRBR principles might look like.

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