Library of Congress Newly Cataloged Books

Summary

Reports of newly cataloged OCLC titles are available for automatic delivery to selectors, customized by call number ranges, subjects, and excluded languages. To provide your criteria, please make a copy of this template, fill in your information, and share with Mark Zelesky either via email or by sharing the document directly through Google Drive.

Exclusions

The following exclusions are built in to this process:

  1. The word ‘juvenile’ in a subject heading

  2. The word 'audiobook' in a 25x field (Edition fields)

  3. Not published in the US, UK, or Canada

  4. Published more than 2 years ago

  5. Non-monographs (position 7 of the leader is not equal to 'm')

Call Number Ranges

Call numbers can be specified at many levels.

  1. LC Class (M or ML)

  2. Specific call number (HQ1381)

  3. Call number range (RA411-415)

Subjects

This selects records if a phrase is found within a subject heading. Examples:

  1. Philosophical aspects

  2. Religious aspects

  3. Fiction

Excluded Languages

It is possible to have specific languages excluded from your report. Please find the language codes of which languages you would like to exclude here. Examples:

  1. ara

  2. eng

  3. spa

Report Structure

Field

Description

Field

Description

oclc id

OCLC Number

isbns

ISBN values (separated by ' | ')

lccns

LCCN values (separated by ' | ')

author

Author taken from 100, 110, or 111 field

title

Title taken from 245$a

f008_pub_place

Code for place of publication taken from 008 field

pub_place

Place of publication taken from 260$a or 264$a

pub_name

Name of publisher taken from 260$b or 264$b

pub_date

Date of publication taken from 260$c or 264$c

description

Physical description taken from 300 field

format

Format of item taken from positions 6 and 7 of the leader

languages

All language codes from the leader and any 041 fields

call_number

Call number taken from first 050 field

subject_string

All subjects (LC, AAT, LCGFT) from 6XX fields (separated by ' | ')