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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">From my point of view, the best thing about OCLC is the Connexion Client, which we find much handier than the Cataloging Module in ExLibris Voyager (our ILS).
We catalog in Connexion, then export to Voyager. I also don’t know how we’d be able to continue our authority work effectively without Connexion. But I’m right now this minute staring at the monthly bill for Connexion, and it’s a frighteningly large part of
our budget.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I guess we’re also increasingly unusual because we consider our local OPAC our database of record. We use OCLC for copy and to contribute records for sharing
and research, but our “real” database is Voyager. We’re already updating records in two places. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">That being said, the Heritage of the Printed Book Database is populated by periodic batch-loading and re-loading of MARC records, so it would only be for our
incunables (provenance information in MEI) that we would have to create/update information in two places. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Erin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Erin C. Blake, Ph.D. | Head of Collection Information Services | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20003 | <a href="mailto:eblake@folger.edu" target="_blank">eblake@folger.edu</a> | office tel. <a href="tel:%2B1%20202-675-0323" target="_blank">+1
202-675-0323</a> | fax <a href="tel:%2B1%20202-675-0328" target="_blank">+1 202-675-0328</a> | <a href="http://www.folger.edu/" target="_blank">www.folger.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Allison Jai O'Dell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] CERL as an alternative for OCLC?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On that note: many list members at hybrid institutions are used to accepting/using records/data from multiple sources -- most of them being not-OCLC. I will suggest that we have workflows in place for using CERL data. Food for thought:
It's 2015; we don't have to choose one 'utility' to do our work, anymore. Jen's questions about shareability/interoperability are key. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Allison<br>
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On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Robert Maxwell <<a href="mailto:robert_maxwell@byu.edu">robert_maxwell@byu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">While I sympathize with everything Erin says below, I suspect most catalogers on this list are from libraries that are not exclusively rare materials
collections, and therefore have to play in the same sandbox that contains all the rest of the library’s collection, that is, a catalog that includes rare materials, archival materials, and general stacks materials of all formats. We couldn’t just drop OCLC
and migrate to something else like CERL’s databases. BYU might be interested in pursuing some relationship with CERL and its databases, but let’s face it, it would mean double work. Our rare materials catalogers cannot abandon the library catalog that contains
everything else in the collection, so if we were to participate we would have to catalog
<i>both</i> in OCLC and CERL (or whatever other database). Therefore, for libraries like us (which I believe is most everyone nowadays except a few very specialized libraries) the best route is probably to try to negotiate the best outcome possible with OCLC
and not threaten to leave OCLC (which we couldn’t anyway). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Bob</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Robert L. Maxwell<br>
Ancient Languages and Special Collections Cataloger<br>
6728 Harold B. Lee Library<br>
Brigham Young University<br>
Provo, UT 84602<br>
(801)422-5568 <br>
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"We should set an example for all the world, rather than confine ourselves to the course which has been heretofore pursued"--Eliza R. Snow, 1842.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu');" target="_blank">
dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu');" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Erin Blake<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 14, 2015 10:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] CERL as an alternative for OCLC?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">There already is an organization that has made great strides with rare materials bibliographic data and linked data: CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries). Unfortunately,
the Folger is not a member (yet!) so I can’t access the Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) to find examples, but their other databases and thesauri are available online for free.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">CERL hosted meetings in New York in January designed to persuade American research libraries to follow Yale’s example and join the consortium. Caroline Duroselle-Melish and I were
there to represent the Folger, but I’m afraid I can’t remember exactly who all else was present.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">RLIN libraries will remember being able to search the HPB when it was part of RLG (back then HPB stood for “Hand Press Book Database”). The difference between what has happened
with the HPB data in the years since RLG disappeared, and what happened with RLIN data, is telling.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">CERL’s
<a href="http://www.cerl.org/resources/mei/main" target="_blank">Material Evidence in Incunabula</a> database (MEI) is a particularly good example: it pulls bibliographic data from the
<a href="http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/" target="_blank">Incunabula Short Title Catalogue</a> and allows copy-specific provenance evidence to be attached in time-specific chunks with links to thesauri. For example:
<a href="http://incunabula.cerl.org/cgi-bin/record.pl?rid=il00023000" target="_blank">
http://incunabula.cerl.org/cgi-bin/record.pl?rid=il00023000</a> brings up the record for a book with multiple copies. Click on “more” for the Bodleian copy and you’ll see that it has three time-specific chunks of provenance information based on physical evidence:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>1.<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>An inscription and price on an endleaf let us know that it was in Bologna, owned by Christoph Scheurl, when it was new (late 16<sup>th</sup> century)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>2.<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>The binding lets us know that it was in Frankfurt-am-Main, owned by Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss, in the 18<sup>th</sup> century<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>3.<span style="font-size:7.0pt"> </span>Oxford shelfmarks let us know it’s been in Oxford, owned by the University, from 1834 or 5 to the present<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">All those places and owners are picked from drop-down menus of data in linked thesauri, and the dates are encoded. Other fields indicate levels of certainty about the data. The
former owner’s authority record points back to books he owned. The time and geographic information can be linked to a map with a time-slider and you can watch the book move from Bologna to Frankfurt to Oxford. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Speaking on my own, and not for my institution (where we’re still in shock) I’m much more inclined to devote cataloging efforts to CERL’s infrastructure, where copy-specific details
are valued and machine-actionable, than to OCLC’s infrastructure, where they’re not.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Erin.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Erin C. Blake, Ph.D. | Head of Collection Information Services | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20003 | <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eblake@folger.edu');" target="_blank">eblake@folger.edu</a> | office
tel. <a href="tel:%2B1%20202-675-0323" target="_blank">+1 202-675-0323</a> | fax <a href="tel:%2B1%20202-675-0328" target="_blank">+1 202-675-0328</a> | <a href="http://www.folger.edu/" target="_blank">www.folger.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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