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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well, that will be the next hurdle …<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 style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Cambridge, MA 02138<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";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Allison Rich<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<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">Hi Karen:<br>
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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>
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And then we will just rely on our local catalogue records.<br>
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I am more irked and worried on what OCLC euphemistically termend "the end of life for Connexion".<br>
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~Allison<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span 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 style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I, 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. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Karen Nipps</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Head, Rare Book Team</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Houghton Library</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Harvard University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Cambridge, MA 02138</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">Phone: 617-496-9190</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#5F497A">FAX: 617-495-1376</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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