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Thanks to everyone who sent information about their online catalogs or possible sources for examples of CE-MARC records. Unfortunately, there aren't many examples (that I found or that others knew about) to share with my cataloging class; however, I did want to post a HIT and offer some resources and ideas for those who were interested. I was reminded of the TEKSLink project that began in Texas; however, the project seems to have been placed on hold due to funding issues. For those who are interested in this topic, I'm posting my original question and the responses that I received. Thanks again for the continued support and ideas for future ways to make library resources more accessible and usable within the curriculum. -------------------------- Original question and responses: I would like to show some examples of Curriculum Enhanced MARC records to my cataloging class so that they will better understand how these MARC fields can enhance library records which can help users locate specific types of information. Specifically, I was interested in examples of the 520 field (reviews or summaries), 521 field (Audience / grade level), and 658 field (Curriculum objectives-- state or national will work). If you have enhanced MARC records containing information within these fields in your online catalog AND if it is accessible so that we might be able to search for information found in these fields, I would appreciate any offer to allow us to just visit your online catalog to see how it might work. Some of the students in my class are not working in a library at this time and our university catalog does not include some of these fields, so we are limited in what we can search. I'd like for the students to see how adding this content can produce different results --- often better results --- than searching by keyword alone might. __________________________________________ Years ago when I was at the Oklahoma State Department of Education, I attended a "Curriculum Enhanced MARC Records" institute in Ohio. There were representatives from around the US, book vendors (Follett, of course), and the Library of Congress. As far as I know, the curriculum details must have been too expensive for companies to implement. It'll be interesting to see what you learn. I have always thought this sort of enhancement would make catalog records much more useful to teachers. Adding the 520 field with the curriculum information would require that someone know K-12 curriculum front and back. Next, we'd have to go with each state standard, next . . . Who knows? ___________________________________________ In perusing some of the MARC records of my nonfiction collection, I haven’t found the 658 field searchable on any. The 520 and 521 fields are usually complete. It would be a great asset to teachers to be able to search the 658, curriculum and PASS objectives. Maybe others have included that information as they edit their records……..but not me!! I wouldn’t find the time! ______________________________ I have some but have not been able to fully utilize the 658 tag because Destiny does not display all of the sub-fields. You may want to find out what automation companies are supporting this -- I have sent this to Follett -- Ohio is supposed to have alot of records with the 658 tag utilized. ________________________ There is a project in Texas to include our TEKS (state mandated curriculum) in MARC records that is being organized by some folks in the Dallas area. Here is the link: http://libraries.risd.org/TEKSLink/index.htm You can see the TEKS themselves at http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks I'm sure you could contact either of the people listed on that page for more information. Take a look at the "Technical presentation" pdf toward the bottom of the page. That shows you the presentation they did on this project at Tx Lib Assoc Conference 2005. It is interesting to me that they are using 450/490 instead of 658. I don't know the reason for that. And, no this is not something that many Texas school libraries are doing. It could have been easily disseminated through our state online catalog -- but wait, the legislature in their infinite wisdom killed that several years ago didn't they. You can see the districts that have participated in this effort on the Past Teams page. The problem with sharing curriculum enhanced records across the country is that there is no standard for citing the curriculum source (at least that is what I was told 4 or 5 years ago, that may have changed by now). So the way Texas has done it may or may not work in any other state. Nor would it necessarily work for a Texas district that was trying to create a record using any curriculum source other than TEKS. ___________ Has anyone mentioned TEKSLink? The website is http://libraries.risd.org/TEKSLink/index.htm You can try our website http://library.abileneisd.org Choose any campus. Enter teks in the search box, click "Subject" and then click the "Browse Subjects" tab. I'm not sure how often a teacher actually uses the search.... _____________ -- Shonda Brisco Assistant Professor / Curriculum Materials Librarian Mary L. 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