University Libraries

Cataloging & Metadata Services

Responsibilities and Objectives

Cataloging & Metadata Services provides resource description and access to research materials purchased or acquired as gifts by the University Libraries, in varying formats (books, journals, scores, media, electronic resources, etc.). Descriptive information is formulated according to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. Subject access is provided through the assignment of Library of Congress subject headings and call numbers. The Libraries' online catalog is an implementation of the Ex Libris Voyager system. We also contribute our catalog records to the OCLC Worldcat database and the Washington Research Library Network's union catalog. As a member of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, we contribute authority records to the Library of Congress/NACO authority file.

Please contact Cataloging & Metadata Services if you discover problems and/or inaccuracies in the library catalog. We can also rush catalog any item that has been received but is not yet on the shelf.

Staff

Nathan B. Putnam
Head, Cataloging & Metadata Services
(703) 993-2235
nputnam@gmu.edu

Friedgard Cowan
Cataloging & Metadata Services Librarian
(703) 993-2301
fcowan@gmu.edu

Pamela Dahlhauser
Catalog Librarian (part time)
pdahlhau@gmu.edu

Ian Fairclough
Cataloging & Metadata Services Librarian
(703) 993-2938
ifairclo@gmu.edu

Danny Gomez
Cataloger
(703) 993-2234
dgomez@gmu.edu

Jennifer Hamilton
Cataloger
(703) 993-3701
jhamilta@gmu.edu

James Heinemann
Cataloger
(703) 993-2236
jheinema@gmu.edu

Heather Leadingham
Government Documents Assistant
(703) 993-2259
hleading@gmu.edu

Tricia Wall Mackenzie
Cataloging & Metadata Services Librarian
(703) 993-2313
tmacken3@gmu.edu

Dorothee Schubel
Cataloger for Johnson Center Library
(703) 993-5029
dschubel@gmu.edu

Jib Vititpongs
Cataloger for Mercer Library
(703) 993-2302
jvitit@gmu.edu