[DCRM-L] OCLC's IR webinar (May 13)

[Allison Rich]

Hi Karen:

We here at the John Carter Brown Library have decided to be in the "why 
bother camp".
We will, however, create IRs up until the very last minute.

And then we will just rely on our local catalogue records.

I am more irked and worried on what OCLC euphemistically termend "the 
end of life for Connexion".

~Allison


> Hi, Audrey – Thanks for resuscitating this. It sounds as if we are 
> going through the same struggles (and bet we are not alone!) Harvard 
> has a small group – consisting of folks from systems, central 
> cataloging, music, and special collections – exploring what to do as 
> the deadline to decide whether to keep our IRs as LBDs looms. A couple 
> of us have reached out to various OCLC representatives with questions 
> and are waiting for answers. However, it is my understanding that any 
> sharing of LBDs would only be within a given institution. We have two 
> general responses. One is, why not just have the data converted and 
> store it for possible use in the future. The other is, why bother? The 
> latter is informed by the fact that – at the moment – Harvard hasn’t 
> any plans to adopt WCL.
>
> I, too, would love to hear from any institution who has already 
> implemented the change – as well as what other institutions are doing 
> and thinking as the clock runs down.
>
> Karen Nipps
>
> Head, Rare Book Team
>
> Houghton Library
>
> Harvard University
>
> Cambridge, MA 02138
>
> Phone: 617-496-9190
>
> FAX: 617-495-1376
>
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