From: Karen Wilson <fnkmw1@uaf.edu>
Subject: [Fwd: [CDSNews] TRAINING PDF PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD]
Date: July 31st 2008

                           Library of Congress

                              News from CDS


TRAINING PDF PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD

On October 1, 2008, CDS will discontinue selling PDF training products.  Instead, the following PDF training courses will be made available for free download:

The workshop materials from the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program (SCCTP): Basic Serials Cataloging; Advanced Serials Cataloging, Integrating Resources Cataloging, Electronic Serials Cataloging, and Serials Holdings.
	
The workshop materials from Cooperative Cataloging Training (CCT):  Basic Subject Cataloging using LCSH, Basic Creation of Name and Title Authorities, Fundamentals of Series Authorities, and Fundamentals of Library of Congress Classification.

The workshop materials from Cataloging for the 21st Century (Cat21):  Rules and Tools for Cataloging Internet Resources, Metadata Standards and Applications, Metadata and Digital Library Development, Digital Project Planning and Management Basics, Principles of Controlled Vocabulary and Thesaurus Design.

The maintenance of these PDF training products will be handled by the Instructional development and Training Division of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Control Directorate at the Library of Congress.  Additional information about these workshops is available online from www.loc.gov/catworkshop/ .

CDS will continue to sell printed training products such as Cataloging Concepts and MARC Content Designation for the present.  

CDS will not be issuing refunds to customers who purchased PDF course materials prior to October 1, 2008.

For information concerning this notice, contact:
Loche McLean
Chief, CDS
lmcl@loc.gov 
Phone: 202-707-1285
Fax: 202-707-3959

July 31, 2008

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