<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">This may be turning into too much of a thread variant, but...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">What control do you have over the selection of a master record (given the <i>many</i> possibilities in the WorldCat database) and are you able to edit/upgrade it at the manifestation level? That is, do institutional catalogers retain "enhance" status?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><font face="'courier new', monospace">RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY</font><div><font face="'courier new', monospace">BROWN UNIVERSITY :: PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912 :: 401-863-1187</font></div><div><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><</span><a href="mailto:RICHARD_NOBLE@BROWN.EDU" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace" target="_blank">Richard_Noble@Br</a><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><a href="http://own.edu" target="_blank">own.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">></span></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Jennifer MacDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsmacdon@udel.edu" target="_blank">jsmacdon@udel.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Dear colleagues, <br>
<br>
I have been silent on all of this, but I guess it's time to chime
in. University of Delaware became the first "major" institution to
adopt WorldShare Management Services, and we migrated last summer.
<br>
<br>
WMS (which goes by many derogatory nicknames here, like WMD) is
the way OCLC takes over your ILS. Circulation, reserves,
cataloging, acquisitions, everything. Not to put too fine a point
on it, hearing talk about going to check an institution's local
catalog makes me cringe, because WE NO LONGER HAVE A LOCAL
CATALOG. We have OCLC records with extra things dangling from
them. Whenever I explain it to someone outside of our library,
they ask if I'm looking for another job (I'm not). The library
spent about 18 months working with OCLC on the system, then
another 12 months when it became clear that they wouldn't be ready
for the go live date, and there is still continual communication
and activity between UD and OCLC.<br>
<br>
When I search for a record in the metadata module of WMS, it takes
me to the master record, the Local Bib Data (if there is one), and
the Local Holdings Record (if there is one). Local notes go into
the LBD (natch, but you never know with these things). Because
I've been in denial for the past year, I haven't checked what our
records look like on the other end, but I figured now was the
time, and I have had a friend at a different institution take a
look. <u>It is, in fact, possible for others to see the LBD</u>.
When the holdings come up in WorldCat.org (I don't know about
FirstSearch, I didn't check that yet), if you click on the holding
library's name, the notes come up under the "Details" section.
This isn't a very exciting record (the book happened to be on my
desk because one of the copies dropped out in the migration, which
is a story for another day), but if you want to take a look, this
is the record she checked:
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/entailed-hat-or-patty-cannons-times-a-romance/oclc/1875667&referer=brief_results" target="_blank">http://www.worldcat.org/title/entailed-hat-or-patty-cannons-times-a-romance/oclc/1875667&referer=brief_results</a><br>
<br>
Believe me, I'm not a fan of WMS, but at least for now, I know
people can see our local data. Or at least she could ...<br>
<br>
Jennifer MacDonald<div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>