Catalogers Desktop 3'0: Whats New

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Catalogers Desktop 3.0 Whats New

• Bruce Johnson
• Library of Congress

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Objective of this Presentation

• To familiarize you with features of Catalogers
  Desktop 3.0 (CD3)
• To introduce you to CD3 terminology
• To outline current and future development plans

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Features What youre used to

• Search box
• Document pane
• Reference window
• TOC pane

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What youre used to
Search box
Reference window
Document pane
Table of Contents
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Features New elements

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

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Features New elements
Rail
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New elements Rail

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

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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

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Quick tasks
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Quick tasks
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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 wont 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

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Quick filters
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Quick filters
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Rail Preferences help

• Preferences
• Allows you to set many attributes to your CD3
  session you will routinely see only the
  resources you select here
• Whats 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
• Help Still being developed

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Preferences
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Whats new
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Acronyms
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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 youve performed
  and save them for future use

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Table of contents
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Hit list
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Drill-down
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Bookmarks Saved searches
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Session history
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Navigation

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

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Reference window
Open current document in new window
View clipboard
Highlight hits
Copy to clipboard
Print
Next hit
Email
Previous hit
Bookmark
Go back
Next result
Sync to TOC
Previous result
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Current developments

• Help
• Training
• Quick tasks
• Interface translations

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Future developments

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

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Need more information?

• Desktop Training and FAQs www.loc.gov/cds/desktop
  /web-faqs.html
• Join the Catalogers Desktop Discussion
  Listhttp//listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1des
  ktopA1
• Technical support (including account
  administration logons)
  desktop-info_at_loc.gov
• Customer support (orders renewals)
  cdsinfo_at_loc.gov
• Questions about content bjoh_at_loc.gov