[DCRM-L] OCLC IRs and LBD: notes from yesterday's discussion

[Lapka, Francis]

David Whitehair, OCLC Senior Product Manager, kindly met with catalogers at Yale to discuss Institutional Records and Local Bibliographic Data. Below are my notes from that meeting.

Francis



Additional OCLC communication

·          OCLC may provide a webinar (this spring or summer?) to continue the discussion about IRs and Local Bibliographic Data.

·          OCLC may host an unofficial session at the 2015 RBMS Conference or at ALA Annual, for additional discussion of IRs and LBD.


On access to copy-specific information from other institutions

·          Whitehair conceded that the OCLC change in policy, as currently planned, means that it will no longer support cross-institutional searches for copy-specific information (e.g. provenance data).

·          OCLC's FirstSearch usage data suggests that IRs are infrequently queried. Whitehair noted that many institutions have not even "turned on" the FirstSearch feature that provides access to IRs. A meeting attendee suggested that this feature might have received greater use if OCLC had included it as a default.

·          Whitehair says that OCLC could reconsider the policy change if presented with a strong usage-based justification to do so.


Fields in Local Bibliographic Data

·          OCLC will gladly accept requests for fields needed to record copy-specific information that are currently lacking from the LBD schema.

·          Whitehair could not promise that the LBD schema would be expanded to include all fields requested.

·          Repositories that intend to use LBD can work with OCLC to load either from IRs or from records in their local system; either way, this must be done before June 2016.


On the raison d'être of LBDs

·          OCLC will support LBD so that institutions have a means to record and provide access to copy-specific information in WorldCat Discovery.

·          Data in LBD will not be exposed outside of the context of WorldCat Discovery.





Francis Lapka  ·  Catalog Librarian
Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
Yale Center for British Art
203.432.9672  ·  francis.lapka at yale.edu<mailto:francis.lapka at yale.edu>

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