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