The Southern California Technical Processes Group
                                Presents ...

           Understanding MARC Authority Records
                     and Local Authority Issues

                             Reserve Thursday
                               June 15, 2000
  Registration and refreshments begin @ 9:00AM; program begins @ 9:15AM
              boxed lunch @ 12:30 pm ; program ends @ 3:30PM

          for a workshop & presentation you wouldn't want to miss!

 Program:

     A 4-hour workshop on reading and interpreting authority records. The
workshop is intended to help Technical Services staff read and interpret
the MARC format codes and tags in authority records. It will focus on the
coded information that is crucial in understanding the status of the
authority records and their applications in cataloging.  The workshop will
not cover how to create an authority record.

     Following the workshop will be a 45 minute presentation and
discussion on approaches to authority control at California State
University, Fullterton and using Innovative.

Workshop Instructor: Lydia Shahid
Head of Monographic Cataloging
UCI Libraries and formerly from LC

Presentor: Verna Wheeler
Co-Coordinator, Cataloging
Pollak Library, CSU Fullerton

                                   Place:
                           El Segundo Public Library
                        Matsui Int'l Inc. Meeting Room
                          111 West Mariposa Avenue
                               El Segundo, CA

TO REGISTER and  for DIRECTIONS..  Go to the web page at
http://library.csun.edu/sctpg/scctpinvit0600.html

 SCTPG member ($20) ;  non-SCTPG member ($30)

Registration closes June 9, 2000

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Jina C. Wakimoto, Library-8328, CSUN, Northridge, CA  91330-8328
818-677-2265 (voice) 818-677-4928 (fax)  jina.wakimoto@csun.edu