[DCRB-L] WG4, Pt. I - whys and wherefores

[Richard Noble]

I must heartily concur with Brian Hillyard on this one. At Brown we're 
actually in the process of creating collection-level records for all of our 
named book collections, very much including those cataloged or to be 
cataloged at the item level. For detailed guidelines see

http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/Catalog/setrecords.html

The handful of collections already thus described are retrieved via

http://library.brown.edu/search~S6/l?SEARCH=coll

(or select search "Other Brown Call Numbers" at 
http://library.brown.edu/screens/searchmenu.html and enter "coll")

At 2/17/03    06:32 AM, Brian Hillyard commented:
>"...In these cases, the collection level record will be deleted when the 
>individual parts have
>been completed."
>
>COMMENT   Provided that when individual parts have been completed the 
>collection-level record states that each piece is also separately 
>catalogued, I can't easily imagine a reason for wanting to delete a
>collection-level record.  Sometimes there may be a reason, but it would be 
>uncomfortable if DCRM laid itself open to a charge of treating as normal 
>the removal of records that could be interpreted as enhancing access.


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