Joni Calfa Cassidy This is Me

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1. 1. Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc.

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   Published on: 1/1/2008   Last Visited: 1/1/2008

   If you have had questions about any of the new and exciting projcets that Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. has been creating recently, read the interview between Joni Cassidy, president of Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. and Gayle Lynn-Nelson, Senior Librarian Relations Consultant at LexisNexis® : Click here to continue to the interview on the LexisNexis® website.

2. 2. Cassidy Cataloguing Services

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   Published on: 5/4/2007   Last Visited: 5/4/2007

   Joni Cassidy founded CASSIDY CATALOGUING SERVICES, INC. in 1985 in response to her discovery of the need for good cataloging in the private law sector. For many reasons, the Library of Congress Cataloguing Distribution Service doesn't meet the needs of a law library as well as it meets those of public and small academic libraries. Although many law collections are represented in OCLC and RLIN, those records require significant editing for quality and consistency. A law library still needs a skilled cataloger to enhance the records, and Cassidy provides that service for a broad array of clients.
   
   During the company's first year, Joni performed most of her work from home using an electronic typewriter and assisted by one part-time clerk. The following year, the company was automated by Joni's husband, Michael, then a full-time theatre lighting technician working for Cassidy Cataloguing in his "spare" time. The law/business bibliographic database he set up in 1986 has grown to more than 90,000 records and serves as the heart of the company's activities today. By 1988, in-house and client demand for technical computer support led to Michael's full-time commitment to the company and its future growth.
   
   Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. opened its first office in Manhattan in February, 1989. Joni was joined by a highly regarded law cataloger who left Wall Street to work for Cassidy. This first office was one room only and contained 250 square feet! Over the next four years, the company moved to two successively larger offices in the same building. Then, on an early evening in December 1993, Joni and another staff member were robbed at gunpoint and tied up in their own office.
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   As the labeling progresses, Cassidy's staff shift and re-arrange the books into correct classification order.
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   Cassidy was chosen for this new product along with the National Library of Medicine's cataloging records, which are the recognized authority in medical cataloguing.
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   Cassidy was pleased to be able to accomplish this project using law school catalogers and LC contractors who were excited to be involved in such an interesting retrospective conversion.
   
   The company continued to expand its services when it developed a web-hosted OPAC in 1998. Using in-house records or MARC records sent by a client library, Cassidy creates an online catalog, mounts it on their web server and continues to update and maintain the product monthly.

3. 3. www.slalegal.org

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   Published on: 3/4/2007   Last Visited: 3/4/2007

   Joni Cassidy President Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. 111 Frank E Rodgers Blvd South Suite 302 Harrison, NJ 07029 Phone: 973 481 0900 Fax: 973 481 9110