Frequently Asked Questions about Cataloger's Desktop
Cataloger's Desktop is shipped with two pieces of print documentation:
a "Getting Started" booklet, and a "Quick Reference" card. The former publication is intended to
provide subscribers with information about installing and rights managing this
new release of the product. The Quick Reference card includes brief information that should make
using Desktop simpler and easier.
Most documentation for Cataloger's Desktop is now being shipped to subscribers on the CD-ROM.
Look in the CD's \Manuals directory where you
will find a number of manuals and user notes in either ASCII text or Adobe AcrobatTM formats. We recommend that you print out each
of these files so that you have the most up-to-date documentation available as you use the product.
 CDS has taken this step so that subscription costs can be kept as low as possible,
as well as making it easier to keep the documentation up-to-date. Adobe Acrobat readers are
available free by clicking on the button to the left.
Contact the Cataloging Distribution
Service by phone, fax or Internet if you have other questions or wish to receive free
demonstration diskettes for any of our other CD-ROM products.
- Can I access the current Cataloger's Desktop and Classification
Plus CDs through the internet?
Classification Plus has been replaced by Classification Web which can be found on
the web at http://classweb.loc.gov/.
Cataloger's Desktop cannot be loaded on the internet as is, and, unlike some other new
CD products they do not contain the software necessary for Intranet access.
- Will Cataloger's Desktop be available on the World Wide Web in the near future?
CDS will be migrating Desktop to the Web in 2004. The CD-ROM-based product will continue
to be available for some time after the Web version becomes available.
Return to list of TechFaqs Topics
- Cataloger's Desktop Distance Learning Course:
an interactive, self-paced, online tutorial of Cataloger's Desktop's basic functions;
developed by the Library of Congress
- Cataloger's Desktop,
Classification Plus, Tips for Original Cataloging, Diane Ward, State University of New
York at Buffalo
- Using Cataloger's Desktop/Classification Plus,
Martin Kurth, Iris Wolley, and Nancy Holcomb, Cornell University Library. Note:
This is a a 908K Adobe Acrobat 4.0 pdf file that has been optimized for clear printing on paper.
Some users will find its online display unacceptably fuzzy.
- Cataloger's Desktop Workshop,
Anna M. Ferris, University Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder. Note:
This is a a 1.2M Adobe Acrobat 5.0 pdf file.
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