For over thirty-five years Special Libraries Cataloguing has been serving libraries internationally, receiving mailed or couriered photocopies of the front and back of title pages with collation (number of pages or volumes) written on. For nonbook materials, photocopies of the items' container, labels, inserts, or any available accompanying material are used. More detailed instructions for sending material to be catalogued will be provided on request. (Continued, including prices).

SLC supports the concept of OPAC displays which make maximum use of the MARC records they create and use a minimum of space for labels. Martha Yee has written an excellent paper on this topic, available here in portable document format (PDF), 605 Kb.

Michael Gorman has written concerning RDA; his comments are in accord with the reactions of SLC cataloguers to the RDA draft. SLC is committed to the ISBD as an international standard for the selection and order of elements in bibliographic records.

Mac is our resident MSLS. Questions concerning prices and products should be directed to Mac at .

Having discovered the Internet, and in particular the mailing list autocat, Mac has posted on a variety of topics including, classification of internet resources, Cuttering, catalogue construction, the classification of automation (QA 76), requirements of remote cataloguing, and additions to the KF classification (to which Mark made an index).

Mac has prepared cataloguing "cheat sheets" to assist in training. Cheat sheets exist for monographs, serials, sound recordings, video recordings, electronic resources, and _authority records. There are also directions for mapping the elements of the MARC record to an OPAC and its indexes, and a list of form subdivisions to assist in retrospective changing them to $v from $x.

Richard J. Violette, SLC cataloguer, specializes in law, cataloguing for over twenty law firms. He has an M.S.L.S from the Catholic University of America and a B.A in International Affairs from George Washington University. He can be reached by e-mail at .

Gary handled our nonbook materials, and operated our Nanaimo branch. He also catalogued directly on such databases as that of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mark was our resident systems analyst and trouble shooter.

Matthew is our programmer and database manager and maintains the SLC web site. Please send questions and suggestions about this web site to Matt by e-mail at .

SLC has approximately 20 cataloguers working at a distance, submitting their records to Gary for quality control. Increasingly, distance cataloguers are preparing electronic resource records for publishers and aggregators.

If you have the password you can access our FTP directory. We use it for the transfer of MARC records, etc.

We often receive requests for inter-library loans (ILL), particularly from Amicus or AGCanada users.