(via Dr. Pamela Thomas, Illinois Heartland Library System)
Registration is open for the Cataloging Maintenance Center two-week crash course “Focus on Deriving a Record.” It will take place asynchronously from September 21-October 4, 2026.
Have you found records in OCLC that are almost a match, but you need to create a new bibliographic record, or do you? If you find a close match, you can derive a new record. Eric McKinney will teach you how to do that.
Please register here before September 14, 2026. Registering requires having an L2 account. Create an L2 account here.
About the CMC’s Multi-Week Cataloging Courses
The Cataloging Maintenance Center provides cataloging training for library workers across the state of Illinois. Subjects range from the basic to the complex — from cataloging fundamentals to the nuances of metadata across lending item types.
All courses are asynchronous, so students may study each module’s materials as their schedules allow, as long as they complete the assignments and quizzes by the end of each week.
Courses are free to all library workers in Illinois thanks to a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a Department of the Office of the Secretary of State.
More information on the Cataloging Maintenance Center is available here. Direct any questions to Dr. Pamela Thomas, Bibliographic Grant Manager at Illinois Heartland Library System’s Cataloging Maintenance Center, at pthomas@illinoisheartland.org.