Library of Things Discussion Group – March 15, 2023

Sage Library of Things Discussion Group

March 15, 2023

Recording link: 2023-03-15 11.04 Library of Things Discussion Group (vimeo.com)

Attendees: Leslie Carlock, Corina Haglund, Beth Ross, Dea Nowell, Tracy Hayes, Christine Ostberg, Jon Georg, Laurie O’Connor.

Tracy Hayes walked the group through the creation of a board game bib record. Type ‘r’ – TMat ‘g’

Beth will be adding drop downs for more of the fixed fields.

$xGames or $vGames?

Unless the game is ABOUT (650 subject) games, $x and $y Games are not appropriate subfields.

The genre (655) [Type of] games are the correct choices for game records.

Genre Terms for Tabletop Games – Page 1 – UNT Digital Library ($2gttg)

Direct link for LOC genres with ‘games’ : – LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress (loc.gov) ($2lcgft)

Completed record ID: 2416350

Cascadia [Lake County Library]

Display discussion – circulation encouragement

Gaming groups in community?

Our next Library of Things Discussion group will be April 19, 2023.