RDA survey

SUNCAT is sending out a survey to Contributing Libraries on Monday, 4^th February, to discuss what the libraries are doing with regards to the adoption of RDA (Resource Description Access), the new cataloguing rules that are due to replace AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2^nd edition).  The results will help with integrating RDA into SUNCAT, for example, in adding new MARC21 codes for display, new indexing routines, etc. The analysis of the answers will also form the basis of a paper that has been accepted for publication in Alexandria: the journal of national & international library and information issues (0955-7490), in a special RDA-themed issue.

We would be very grateful if our Contributing Libraries completed this survey. We are happy to receive more than one questionnaire from any given Contributing Library, as there may be different answers from different departments, etc. The survey will be open for 3 weeks.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Aberystwyth University (15 Jan 13)
• Cambridge University (08 Jan 13)
• CONSER (23 Jan 13) 
• Liverpool University (25 Jan 13)
• St Andrews University (08 Jan 13)
• Southampton University (27 Jan 13)
• Trinity College Dublin (16 Jan 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Birmingham University (22 Jan 13)
• Cranfield University (20 Jan 13)
• Edinburgh University (21 Jan 13)
• Hull University (10 Dec 12)
• Liverpool University (18 Jan 13)
• Queen Mary, University of London (15 Jan 13)
• Royal College of Music (17 Jan 13)
• Sheffield University (14 Jan 13)
• Southampton University (20 Jan 13)
• Strathclyde University (21 Dec 12)
• Women's Library, London Metropolitan University (19 Dec 12)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Happy Australia Day!

Tomorrow (26th January) is Australia Day. Australia has been in the news recently due to the extremely hot weather there and, of course, the Australian Open tennis tournament. Congratulations Andy Murray for getting through to the final. Here's hoping he'll win another Grand Slam title! Here are some weird and wonderful serial titles with an Australian theme.

• The Australian bird bander : journal of the Bird Banders’ Association of Australia.
• Mapping Pro Bono in Australia 
• Maverick guide to Australia 
• Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue. Australia.  
• Kylie Minogue : the official ... annual 
• Wanneroo Times (Perth, Australia) 
• Worrall’s textile directory of the manufacturing districts of Ireland, Scotland, & Wales, with the dominions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and the counties of Chester, Derby, Gloucester, Leicester, Nottingham, Worcester, and other manufacturing districts not included in Worrall’s textile directory of Lancashire and Yorkshire 
• Bush telegraph (Warwick, Australia) 
• The kosher koala : newsletter of the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society. 
• E-VarietyProfiler for Western Australia profiles the status of a variety in terms of physical characteristics, disease risks, abiotic stresses, herbicide tolerance, yield and potential net return / Government of Western Australia, Department of Agriculture, Grains Research & Development Corporation. 
• Joondalup Times (Wanneroo/Perth, Australia) 
• Australian beer label annual. 
• ’Look-in’ Rod Hull & Emu annual 
• Bath & shower products in Australia 
• Chewings : Glossy Black-Cockatoo newsletter. 
• The Welsh Australian = Yr Awstralwr Cymreig. 
• Triple bottom line summary report / Department of the Environment and Heritage.

For more Australian serials and weird and wonderful titles in general take a look in a SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Bath University (14 Jan 13)
• Bristol University (10 Jan 13)
• British Library (21 Dec 12)
• Cardiff University (20 Dec 12)
• CONSER (09 Jan 13)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (10 Jan 13)
• Exeter University (02 Jan 13)
• King's College London (01 Jan 13)
• Liverpool University (11 Jan 13)
• London School of Economics and Political Science (10 Dec 12)
• Loughborough University (07 Jan 13)
• Manchester Metropolitan University (08 Jan 13)
• National Library of Scotland (08 Jan 13)
• Nottingham University (03 Jan 13)
• Royal Society of Medicine (11 Jan 13)
• Southampton University (13 Jan 13)
• Swansea University (15 Jan 13)
• University College London (15 Jan 13)
• University of East Anglia (03 Jan 13)
• Warwick University (15 Jan 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.

Snowy weird and wonderful titles in SUNCAT

There is no snow at the moment in Edinburgh, where SUNCAT is based, but we know that a lot of the country has been affected. To cheer you up (if needed!) here are some weird and wonderful ice and snow-themed titles found in SUNCAT.

• Disney snow globes : a magical collection of Disney miniatures. 
• Global Trade Perspective - Vehicles Specially Designed for Travel on Snow, Golf Carts & Similar 
• Seeding the snow. 
• Snow east!.  
• Snow frolic and spring breaks. 
• Snow goer’s water goer. 
• Snow-Hill messenger. 
• Snow Shoe times. 
• Studies in fallen snow.  
• Ice fresh thinking. 
• Man in the ice. 
• Rock & ice. 
• Icy passages. 
• Snowmobile Canada’s hot sled. 
• Snowmobile sentinel / International Sno-Mobile Ass’n. 
• 2006-2011 World Outlook for Snow Thrower Attachments for Consumer Riding Snow.
• Equipment Snow time and glow time: being the 'Little folks' annual for 1882.

For more weather titles and other weird and wonderful serials take a look in SUNCAT.

SUNCAT updated

SUNCAT has been updated. Updates from the following libraries were loaded into the catalogue in the last week. The dates displayed indicate when the files were received by SUNCAT.

• Bath University  (19 Jan 12)
• Birmingham University (22 Dec 12)
• Cranfield University (20 Dec 12)
• Dundee University (03 Jan 13)
• Durham University (21 Dec 12)
• Edinburgh Napier University (19 Dec 12)
• Edinburgh University (21 Dec 12)
• Glasgow University (07 Dec 12)
• Imperial College, London (03 Dec 12)
• Liverpool University (04 Jan 13)
• London Business School (04 Jan 13)
• Manchester University (03 Jan 13)
• Natural History Museum (25 Dec 12)
• Newcastle University (20 Dec 12)
• Robert Gordon University  (03 Jan 13)
• St Andrews University (07 Dec 12)
• School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (04 Jan 13)
• Sheffield University (14 Dec 12)
• Society of Antiquaries of London (19 Dec 12)
• Southampton University  (06 Jan 13)
• Sussex University (21 Dec 12)
• University of the West of England (UWE) (23 Dec 12)
• York University (03 Jan 13)

To check on the currency of other libraries on SUNCAT please check the updates page for further details.