Bibliographic Data Management Department
The Department's functions and responsibilities include:
- Analyzing the content of and describing the Library's books, journals, DVDs, and electronic resources
- Applying the appropriate descriptions, subject terms and classification to records for resources
- Creating and maintaining the Library catalogue by adding and updating MARC bibliographic records and holdings information for the Library's collections
- Ensuring the quality of the data in the Library catalogue, performing authority control and building appropriate user reference structures
- Creating original bibliographical records for all Irish legal deposit and also contributing to the UK Shared Cataloguing Programme
- Submitting records to the Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) and Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO)
- Providing user education