[DCRM-L] Question: Local notes in OCLC master records

[Noble, Richard]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my take on remarks from OCLC staff who've
briefed meetings of the MARC for Special Collections DG is that they
have no intention of making any use whatever of IRs in any product,
including even WorldCat Local. They seem to have been a concession to
traumatized RLIN Libraries, and quickly proved to be problematic in the
programming environment of OCLC. When I see which of many (many!)
duplicate master records some of our RLIN records were matched with, my
heart sinks. From Neimann-Marcus to WalMart, the way of the world...

 

RICHARD NOBLE : RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN
UNIVERSITY
PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-2093 :
RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU 

 

 

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Auyong, Dorothy
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 2:31 PM
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Question: Local notes in OCLC master records

 

Whenever we create a Master Record/Institutional Record combination, I
have instructed our catalogers to remove all local notes and tracings
from the Master.

 

I seem to remember that 590 and 500 notes tagged |5 will automatically
be stripped from the Master record.  Added entries (7xx) and 655 (form
genre) headings coded |5 will NOT be automatically stripped and I have
my catalogers strip those from the Master.  Without the corresponding
justification in the local note, they are just bad "noise" in an MR.

 

I don't know that the option to create IRs was ever extended to OCLC
libraries or it remains a legacy of we few, proud and unapologetic
former RLIN libraries <smile>

 

Dorothy Auyong

Principal Rare Book Cataloger

Huntington Library

dauyong at huntington.org

 

 

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