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

[Nipps, Karen]

Well, that will be the next hurdle …

Karen Nipps
Head, Rare Book Team
Houghton Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-496-9190
FAX: 617-495-1376

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Allison Rich
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 10:37 AM
To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] OCLC's IR webinar (May 13)

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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