Cataloger's Desktop 3.0 is now available Cataloger’s Desktop 3.0 is a major modernization of the popular web-based subscription service. Desktop is the most widely used cataloging documentation resources in an integrated, online system. And now Cataloger's Desktop 3.0 features a significantly enhanced bibliographic web-based toolbox, including: Greatly expanded search and information discovery techniques Subscriber-customizable interface Intuitive resource organization

Cataloger's Desktop includes tmore than 300 resources, including the OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards and Describing Archives, a Content Standard (DACS).

RDA: Resource Description and Access in Cataloger's Desktop Subscribers to both Cataloger’s Desktop and the RDA Toolkit (separate subscriptions) can access the Toolkit within Cataloger’s Desktop. In addition: Following RDA links allow Desktop subscribers to access the full functionality of RDA Toolkit, including workflows; Linking from LC Policy Statements and the MARC formats to RDA is provided; Cataloger's Desktop subscribers with RDA Toolkit logins can enter their RDA Toolkit login in their Desktop preferences so both products work seamlessly together. Subscribe to the RDA Toolkit RDA Toolkit at-a-glance RDA in Cataloger’s Desktop FAQs

AACR2 - in Cataloger's Desktop While using Cataloger's Desktop you can look up a rule in AACR2 and then easily consult the rule's LC Rule Interpretation (LCRI). Also features extensive links to the MARC 21 format. Visit the AACR2 website for a print version of AACR2. Note: Beginning April 1, 2013, Cataloger's Desktop subscribers who wish to continue to have access to AACR2 will need a separate subscription to RDA Toolkit. Read the full text of the AACR2 announcement. Subscribe to the RDA Toolkit AACR2 in Cataloger’s Desktop FAQs DACS in Cataloger's Desktop While using Cataloger's Desktop you can look up a rule in Describing Archives: a Content Standard ("DACS") and then easily consult the parallel AACR2 rule and LCRIs. Also features extensive links to the MARC 21 format. Visit the SAA website for a print version of DACS.

Features

Cataloger's Desktop provides fingertip access electronically to LC's most heavily used cataloging publications. With hypertext links, a single click moves you from one tool to the relevant section of others:

• Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) (Requires separate subscription to the RDA Toolkit after March 31, 2013)
• Describing Archives: a Content Standard (DACS)
• Library of Congress Policy Statements
• Library of Congress Rule Interpretations
• Resource Description and Access (RDA) (Requires separate subscription to the RDA Toolkit )
• Subject Cataloging Manuals
• MARC 21 Formats
• Latest editions of all MARC code lists
• Complete list of resources

Bruce Johnson, Cataloger's Desktop Manager: "Cataloger's Desktop brings up-to-date cataloging documentation to your workstation with a minimum of effort on your part ... and no looseleaf interfiling!"

Cataloger's Desktop is a revolutionary cataloging tool created by the Library of Congress. Here's how it helps you control your time and work more efficiently.

• Helps you find relevant rules fast--with a variety of approaches.


• Locates data through a table of contents viewer ... through boolean, keyword, phrase, and proximity searches ... or from index references.


• Hypertext links make it easy to move from relevant sections of one publication to another with a single keystroke.


• Allows you to customize your files to suit your needs and create a personal file initialized by your password. Includes personalized notes, bookmarks, highlighting, and links. The notes can also be applied to each update of the product without having to file new pages or manually transfer important information.


• Copy-and-paste capability is available. Copy important sections of Desktop resources and insert them into your own references.

All this can be done without leaving your workstation--just pull up the program on your personal computer while you catalog.

"I'm pleased that when I want to look for something, I know just where to look and I don't have to page through all the books." Jane M. Gillis Catalog Librarian, Rare Book Team Yale University Library