[DCRM-L] DCRM(B) cataloging in OCLC

[Robert Maxwell]

Thank you Jain and Deborah! I'd like to add that I have always assumed
enhance libraries could upgrade the master record to DCRM(B). At least
that has been and will continue to be my practice. Now that institution
records are available (or soon will be for all--I realize that at first
they're only being offered to ex-RLIN libraries), non-enhance libraries
can derive an institution record from the master record and upgrade it
to DCRM(B), which will make it available for all to use if they like.
Though it would be nice if they were clearly flagged as DCRM(B) in the
list of institution records you get when you do a search.

In our enhance negotiations with OCLC I brought this issue up and asked
if they might want to consider using parallel records for AACR2 and
DCRM(B) records for the same item, as they do with foreign language
records. I still think that might be a viable option for OCLC (a given
library might not WANT the DCRM(B) record, hard as it is for us to
imagine :-), but they told me that they did not want to do this.

By the way, Lori correctly noted that the guidelines say that
differences in cataloging rules do not justify creation of a new record.
Though this is the wrong forum to debate this, I think that's exactly
what OCLC is allowing when it allows parallel foreign language
records--one record for the English rules (AACR2, DCRM(B), etc.),
another for the German rules, another for the Dutch, etc. At least
that's one way to look at it in my opinion.

Bob

Robert L. Maxwell
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian
Genre/Form Authorities Librarian
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)422-5568 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu]
On
> Behalf Of Fletcher, Jain
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 1:32 PM
> To: DCRM Revision Group List
> Subject: RE: [DCRM-L] DCRM(B) cataloging in OCLC
> 
> Hi,
> OK, I was waiting for a more official DCRM(B) person to answer (and
she
> has!) and now it seems it's OK for me to take a turn.  The answer to
> number 1 is that you do NOT create a new record in OCLC just because
of
> the difference in rulebooks used.  Once a master record is in the
> system, that is the "placeholder" for the bibliographic entity that it
> matches. If you want to change the record to reflect DCRM(B), that
will
> show up in your local file when you export/update/produce the record.
> But making a new record is not justified in this case.
> 
> There is a section of BF&S, called "When to Input a New Record".  It
> can
> be found at this link:
> <http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/input/default.shtm>.  The answer to
> this question is under the heading, "Cataloging rules".  I hope this
> helps.
> 						--Jain
> 
> 
> Jain Fletcher
> Principal Cataloger & Head, Technical Services Division
> Department of Special Collections
> Young Research Library - UCLA Box 951575
> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
> 
> v: (310) 794-4096
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu]
On
> Behalf Of Deborah J. Leslie
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:20 PM
> To: DCRM Revision Group List
> Subject: RE: [DCRM-L] DCRM(B) cataloging in OCLC
> 
> Hi Amanda.
> 
> I'd like to hear other people's answers to number 1. For your second
> question, code Desc "a" and use dcrmb in 040. Desc "a" is used because
> DCRM(B) is an expansion of AACR2.
> __________________________
> Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.
> Head of Cataloging
> Folger Shakespeare Library
> 201 East Capitol St., S.E.
> Washington, D.C. 20003
> 202.675-0369
> djleslie at folger.edu | http://www.folger.edu
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu]
On
> Behalf Of Sprochi, Amanda K.
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 September, 2007 15:04
> To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
> Subject: [DCRM-L] DCRM(B) cataloging in OCLC
> 
> Hi Folks:
> 
> I'm a newbie rare books cataloger, and had a question for those of you
> who use DCRM(B) on OCLC. If there already exists a record on OCLC for
> an
> item using AACR2, and I want to use DCRM(B),
> A) do I make a new record, or use the already existing one (we do not
> have enhance status on OCLC)
> B) how do I code the fixed fields to indicate that it's DCRM(B)? It's
> my
> understanding one uses $e dcmrb in the 040 and leaves the Desc field
> blank, but I'm not sure.
> 
> Thanks! I'm in the process of recataloging our collection here at
> Mizzou, and would like to get it right.
> amanda
> 
> Amanda Sprochi
> Health Sciences Cataloger
> J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library
> University of Missouri-Columbia
> Health Sciences Center
> One Hospital Drive
> Columbia, MO  65212
> (573) 882-0461
> sprochia at health.missouri.edu
> 
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