Library Juice Academy courses “Using MarcEdit” and “Introduction to Cataloging”

摘要

I work in the Enquiry Service team at King’s College London Libraries & Collections. My current duties do notinvolve cataloguing, but I want to learn the basics as part of my continuing professional development (CPD). Isaw an advertisement for a free training place for the Library Juice Academy (LJA) course on MarcEdit in theCataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) newsletter in December 2018. I had been looking for trainingopportunities for cataloguing and heard about LJA courses from a colleague in the Special Collections team atmy workplace. I considered the CIG’s timely offer of a free place as their endorsement of LJA courses andenrolled without hesitation in two courses, “Using MarcEdit” (March 2019) and “Introduction to Cataloging” (May2019). I did not apply for support, however, because I am employed full-time and thought I would not qualify. Ithen saw in the February 2019 newsletter that there is a 20% discount for CIG members on LJA courses. Iimmediately contacted the CIG and asked whether I could apply for the discount retrospectively. The CIG kindlycontacted LJA on my behalf and I successfully secured a refund as the courses had not started yet. This wasan enormous help since the pound to dollar exchange rate has been so unfavourable in the current economicclimate.