Librarian Resources

Cataloging

Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online: Access the Getty's controlled vocabulary for art and architecture.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online: Access the Getty's controlled vocabulary for geographic names.
Google Directory: Cataloging: Access resources for cataloging librarians from around the world including calendar conversion tables, subject cataloging manuals, Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, authority control, bibliographic utilities, metadata, MARC, and specialized thesauri.
Library of Congress Authorities: Access LC's authority headings search engine.
LOCKSS: LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), based at Stanford University Libraries, is an international initiative to provide libraries with digital preservation tools and support to easily and inexpensively collect and preserve their own copies of authorized e-content.
MARC Standards: The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.
Union List of Artist Names Online: Access the Getty controlled vocabulary for artist names.
xISSN History Visualization Tool: Use this WorldCat web service to generate a chart showing the history of a journal with a given ISSN.

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Access the authoritative specification of all metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.
Encoded Archival Description (EAD): Access the schema for this Library of Congress standard.