Fw: [DCRM-L] Introduction comments

[nschneider at nypl.org]

This is from my colleague, Virginia Bartow. I think she's speaking directly
to Manon's solution to provide guidelines to PCC institutions:

"If an institution is a BIBCO participant,
contributing full-level records as part of the
Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC), all
headings must be established in the LC/NACO and LC/SACO Authority Files."

Nina

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Nina Schneider
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Berg Collection of English & American Literature, Room 320
The New York Public Library
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New York, NY  10018-2788

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Weighing in with an opinion. If you are cataloging according to AACR2
(leader byte 18=a) then you are indicating that the catalog record contains
AACR2 forms for all access points.

Encoding a MARC record for full-level (leader byte 17= _ (National library
or PCC program); or = i (utility member library supplied)) indicates that
the data in the MARC record is complete according to the MARC standard (it
includes all required tags and values for the fixed fields, variable length
fields, etc.). Headings will be established in the NAF and SAF.

Adding the DCRM(B) to the 040 would mean that all of the requirements of
DCRM(B) cataloging rules (description and access points) were followed.

I think that you need to allow that libraries will supply cataloging to the
shared bibliographic database with different combinations of these three
variables.

Yours,

Virginia Bartow
Curator, George Arents Collection, and Head, Special Collections Cataloging
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/humanities/