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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Karen:<br>
<br>
We here at the John Carter Brown Library have decided to be in the
"why bother camp".<br>
We will, however, create IRs up until the very last minute.<br>
<br>
And then we will just rely on our local catalogue records.<br>
<br>
I am more irked and worried on what OCLC euphemistically termend
"the end of life for Connexion".<br>
<br>
~Allison<br>
<br>
<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi,
Audrey – Thanks for resuscitating this. It sounds as if we
are going through the same struggles (and bet we are not
alone!) Harvard has a small group – consisting of folks from
systems, central cataloging, music, and special collections
– exploring what to do as the deadline to decide whether to
keep our IRs as LBDs looms. A couple of us have reached out
to various OCLC representatives with questions and are
waiting for answers. However, it is my understanding that
any sharing of LBDs would only be within a given
institution. We have two general responses. One is, why not
just have the data converted and store it for possible use
in the future. The other is, why bother? The latter is
informed by the fact that – at the moment – Harvard hasn’t
any plans to adopt WCL.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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too, would love to hear from any institution who has already
implemented the change – as well as what other institutions
are doing and thinking as the clock runs down. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Karen
Nipps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Head,
Rare Book Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Houghton
Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Harvard
University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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MA 02138<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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617-496-9190<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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617-495-1376<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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