This website contains links to guidelines and resources useful to staff cataloguing Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) Library holdings on OLIS. Until July 2004 all RSC holdings were catalogued on Cardbox and made available online via the RSC web catalogue. New books and reports were also catalogued on OLIS. It was decided to replace Cardbox with OLIS, and so from July 2004, all new RSC material was catalogued on OLIS only.
Records in Cardbox were catalogued according to the HURIDOCS standards for the recording and exchange of bibliographic information concerning human rights. Tables were created showing the MARC equivalent for each HURIDOCS/Cardbox field:
Download the Excel spreadsheet on transferring Cardbox data to OLIS.
Download the Excel spreadsheet on transferring notes in Cardbox to OLIS.
Download the Excel spreadsheet on LCSH equivalents to non-ITRT terms found in the Cardbox notes field.
International thesaurus of refugee terminology (ITRT)
OLIS cataloguing documentation
This table shows the number of piece records added to OLIS through the retrospective conversion project. The project started at the end of May 2003.
| Time period | Piece records added | Total pieces added since start of project |
|---|---|---|
| May 03-Jul 03 | 161 | 161 |
| Aug 03-Jul 04 | 628 | 789 |
| Aug 04-Jul 05 | 991 | 1780 |
| Aug 05-Jul 06 | 1180 | 2960 |
| Aug 06-Jul 07 | 670 | 3630 |
| Aug 07-Jul 08 | 688 | 4318 |
| Aug 08-Jun 09 | 647 | 5139 |
There were 13,273 RSC piece records in total on OLIS on 27 June 2009.