Technical Services Department - Webster-Eden Library System

About the Technical Services Department

The Technical Services Department acquires, describes and provides access to library materials, and processes and preserves library materials for the use of our patrons. A list of the department's goals and responsibilities is available on our Overview of the Technical Services Department page. If you have questions or experience a problem with the catalog, please contact a cataloger.

Online catalogs

• Alex, a Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
• John Rylands University Library of Manchester
• LibDex, the library index (Missouri only)
• Library of Congress Catalog Z39.50 Interface Search the Library of Congress catalog using fill-in screens.
• Saint Louis Research Libraries Consortium
• The Vatican Library Catalog

Publications & documentation

• Associates, the electronic library support journal
• LC Cutter Table
• MARC Standards and Code Lists MARC standards and code lists for country of publication, geographic area codes, language code lists, relator codes, source codes, description conventions.
• OCLC Technical Bulletins
• USMARC Concise Format for Bibliographic Data
• USMARC Concise Format for Authority Data

Information sites

• The American Library Association
• Best Information on the Net (formerly Where the Wild Things Are) A variety of library-related topics.
• CONSER Web site
• Ending Punctuation for Bibliographic Data
• Geonet Names Server A database of non-U.S. geographic names
• GNIS Data Base Query Form Search the U.S. Geological Survey's Mapping Database.
• Internet Movie Data Base
• ISBN Check Digit Calculator
• Library Cataloguing Aids
• Library of Congress Home Page
• Library Support Staff Resource Center
• OCLC Home Page
• OCLC Participating Institutions A database of OCLC institutions searchable by symbol, name & location.
• USMARC Home Page

Dictionaries & language resources

• Arlene Taylor's Glossary
• Bibliographic translation tables
• Czech-English Dictionary
• Estonian-English Dictionary
• Hungarian-English Dictionary
• The Information Professional's Glossary
• Language Dictionaries and Translators
• Latin Grammar Aid and Wordlist
• MARC21 Initial Definite and Indefinite Articles
• Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dictionary
• Swedish-English Dictionary
• yourDictionary.com (formerly Web of On-line Dictionaries)

Online forms

• OCLC change request form We've had some problems with the send button not appearing, so you may want to page down to check the send button before inputting your change information.
• OCLC duplicate record report form
• Subject Authority Proposal Form

Special collections resources

• ALA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section
• Book Arts & History of the Book Web Links
• Cathedral Libraries Names of Printing Towns Translates older forms of names to currently used names.
• CoOL-- Conservation Online Resources
• Rare Book School at the University of Virginia
• University of Iowa Center for the Book