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by catalogers (in the Connexion client). OCLC moderators also reassured us that in a proper cataloging workflow we don’t really need to see the IRs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Evans<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 14, 2015 11:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] OCLC's IR webinar (May 13)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I am vexed by OCLC's attitude and more than a little disheartened. Given our small numbers, data driven decisions hold little promise for accommodating present and future concerns of the rare materials community.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">While we are not an IR library, we frequently use the information within those records to aid in identification, when navigating a sea of inferior records.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How did a feudal business model, where we create the product but have no voice in how that product is maintained or delivered, survive into the 21st century?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Will Evans</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Chief Rare Materials Catalog Librarian</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Lapka, Francis <<a href="mailto:francis.lapka@yale.edu" target="_blank">francis.lapka@yale.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Yesterday’s webinar on the demise of Institutions Records and the transition to Local Bibliographic Data was primarily a Q-and-A. Compared to the discussion that Yale catalogers had with an OCLC rep in April, there
seemed much less ambiguity that OCLC has no plans to provide access to the local data of any institution other than your own, no matter how much we say that this is important to us. Moderators held firm to the talking point: OCLC data suggests that its users
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<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">It’s tempting to think that the OCLC data is somehow wrong, but I’m inclined to accept their conclusion at face value: users who care about copy-specific descriptions generally don’t see OCLC as a useful discovery
tool. So is there much point in investing energy trying to make OCLC fulfill a role for which it is ill-suited? If we want a mechanism that enables searching of copy-specific data across institutions, we should probably look elsewhere.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Francis Lapka · Catalog Librarian</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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