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On Aug 28 2010, Dooley,Jackie wrote:

> Regarding Liz's last comment about OCLC and the desirability of making 
> all rare book information more accessible 	 OCLC is currently working 
> very hard toward this goal. Some of you may recall that OCLC's Matt 
> Goldner convened a working group of rare book and archival cataloging 
> experts two years ago to study this in the context of WorldCat Local; 
> both the wg's report and OCLC response are on the RBMS Bib Standards 
> Committee's website at 
> http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/index.shtml 
> (scroll to bottom of the page).
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> It may be fair to say that display and indexing of full data from 
> cataloging members was the working group's #1 priority-and of course the 
> most difficult one to achieve, since storing bibliographic information 
> beyond the master record is the polar opposite of the long-standing 
> WorldCat paradigm. Nevertheless, much work is going on internally to 
> define the MARC bib fields that it'll be possible (when implemented) to 
> retain in LHRs (library holdings records).
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> A good conversation about this issue occurred on this listserv earlier 
> this year.
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>
>Jackie Dooley
>
>Program Officer
>
>OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership
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>949.492.5060 (office/home)
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>949.295.1529 (mobile)
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>dooleyj at oclc.org
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> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Elizabeth O'Keefe Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 4:48 PM To: 
> List, DCRM Revision Group Cc: Ascher, James P. Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] FW: 
> BYU's 1st RDA/DCRMB record
>
> 
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> Analysis of this sort would be very valuable, but it would be difficult 
> to do in Open WorldCat, which is where most of our users (as opposed to 
> catalogers) search. The results would be skewed because many DCRM(B) 
> records are loaded as Institution Records (IRs), which are invisible to 
> users of Open WorldCat. There is a similar problem with trying to analyse 
> use of copy-specific information, such as provenance, bindings, 
> watermarks, annotations, etc., which is also restricted to the IRs. OCLC 
> would do the dcrm community a great service if they could come up with 
> ways to make all rare book information more accessible, whether it takes 
> the form of copy-specific data, or the enhanced descriptions prescribed 
> by DCRM(B).
>
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>
>Liz O'Keefe
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>Elizabeth O'Keefe
>Director of Collection Information Systems
>The Morgan Library & Museum
>225 Madison Avenue
>New York, NY  10016-3405
> 
>TEL: 212 590-0380
>FAX: 212-768-5680
>NET: eokeefe at themorgan.org
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>
>Visit CORSAIR, the Library's comprehensive collections catalog, now on
>the web at
>http://corsair.themorgan.org
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>>>> "Schaffner,Jennifer" <schaffnj at oclc.org> 8/27/2010 11:50 AM >>>
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> This community discussion is very helpful and enlightening. Y'all are 
> kicking up important "pickles," er, issues.
>
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>
> I, too, was 'privileged' to hear Karen Calhoun's talk. It occurs to me 
> that - facing RDA - it will be helpful for our community to have solid 
> evidence and studies of use, especially users' use (and not just our own 
> use), of dcrm records. Does anyone have analytics of catalog use, 
> especially analytics of successful searches (from catalogs or from the 
> web) that land on dcrm records? Does anyone have weblogs or search logs 
> that are sufficiently granular to demonstrate which fields are sought, 
> used, and found successfully? (As many of you know, I've been chasing 
> these for two years or so.)
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> Rumors of OCLC Research's interest in facilitating discussion with our 
> community of preference for dcrm records are quite true. It was Glenn 
> Patton's idea. Jackie and I had offered to bring Glenn to RBMS at ALA 
> Midwinter. The offer stands.
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>
>Please contact me offline!
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> 
>
>Jennifer
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>Jennifer Schaffner
>
>Program Officer
>
>OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership
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>650.287.2140
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>http://www.oclc.org/research/
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