Not many people are aware that the Library of Congress has made available, for free, the material from several cooperatively developed workshops. The Catalogers Learning Workshop (CLW) arose from the 2000 Library of Congress conference “Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium.”

A joint effort by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging and the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, the CLW makes available for free material for workshops ranging from creating name authority records to digital library development.

While there are limitations in having just the material from a workshop, without benefit of an instructor and fellow participants to share ideas, if you can’t find anyone offering a workshop in which you are interested you can still gain helpful information from the material itself.

The BCR workshops “Understanding the Fundamentals of Series Authorities” and “Fundamentals of Creating Series Authorities” are adapted from the CLW worshop “Fundamentals of Series Authorities.” The material is thorough and well-organized, prepared by experienced catalogers– hard to beat.

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