cataloger’s desktop 3.0: what’s new

Bruce JohnsonLibrary of Congress

Cataloger's Desktop 3.0: What's New 1

Objective of this Presentation

To familiarize you with features of Cataloger’s Desktop 3.0 (“CD3”)

To introduce you to CD3 terminology To outline current and future

development plans


Features: What you’re used to

Search box Document pane Reference window TOC pane


What you’re used to


Search box

Table of Contents

Reference window

Document pane

Features: New elements

Rail – New tools Fly-out menus Views Navigation Reference window – New look


Features: New elements


New elements – Rail

Hide/Show Rail Pane Fly-out menus Collapse TOC Clear TOC checkboxes Preferences & help Navigation


New elements – Fly-out menus Quick Tasks

Provides help with performing specific cataloging steps Find a subject Build a call number Find a MARC tag or code Search a discussion list

You can also restore your default list by Starting over


Quick tasks


New elements – Fly-out menus Quick Filters

Allows you to temporarily consult specialist resources to catalog specific classes of library materials Does not affect your preferred list of resources The exact list depends on your initial Preference set-

up If you say that you only want English-language resources,

then you won’t see Spanish or French resources You can filter to see just LC resources, all resources, or

your preferred resource list

You can also restore your default list by Starting over


Quick filters


Rail – Preferences & help Preferences

Allows you to set many attributes to your CD3 session; you will routinely see only the resources you select here

What’s new Takes you to a list of changes in the current

Desktop issue Acronyms

The TOC is now organized to use widely-known acronyms for certain resources, e.g. AACR2, LCRI, CSB

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Preferences


What’s new


Acronyms


Rail – Views

Table of Contents (“TOC”) Allows you to return to the Table of Contents

Hit list Provides a view of search results, as well as a

means for refining searches through faceting Bookmarks & Saved searches

Allows you to bookmark resources & comment on them, save searches, & save sessions

Session history Allows you to see what functions you’ve

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Table of contents


Hit list


Drill-down


Bookmarks & Saved searches


Session history


Navigation

Table of Contents – Rail pane Document pane Reference window Next section Previous section Go back



Reference window

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Sync to TOC Previous result

Next result

Previous hit

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Highlight hits

Current developments

Help Training Quick tasks Interface translations


Future developments

Federated searching Personal searching More customizable interface RSS feeds RDA when available


Need more information?

Desktop Training and FAQs: www.loc.gov/cds/desktop/web-faqs.html

Join the Cataloger’s Desktop Discussion Listhttp://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=desktop&A=1

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