Cataloguing Services

The Great Library's Library Systems and Technical Services Department provides cataloguing and processing services to libraries for legal materials.

The cataloguing service includes high-level cataloguing using the following standards:

• KF Modified for common law legal material
• LC Classification for non-common law and non-legal material
• MARC 21 format for bibliographic data
• RDA and LC rule interpretations for descriptive cataloguing
• Library of Congress and Canadian Subject Headings
• enhanced table of contents notes for Law Society of Upper Canada CLE materials
• customized records, including holdings information for individual libraries

Online County & District Law Library Reporting Forms
Two online reporting forms are available for the submission of cataloguing requests by county and district law libraries in Ontario.

• Form for Reporting Monographs & Serials 
• Form for Reporting Withdrawals

Support Documents for County & District Law Libraries

• Cataloguing Request Manual for County & District Law Libraries 
• KF Modified Classification Guide 
• Creating Persistent Links to AdvoCAT Catalogue Records or Searches 

For further information, e-mail the Great Library's Library Systems and Technical Services Department (oatacan@lso.ca).