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

[Noble, Richard]

This may be turning into too much of a thread variant, but...

What control do you have over the selection of a master record (given the
*many* possibilities in the WorldCat database) and are you able to
edit/upgrade it at the manifestation level? That is, do institutional
catalogers retain "enhance" status?

RICHARD NOBLE :: RARE MATERIALS CATALOGUER :: JOHN HAY LIBRARY
BROWN UNIVERSITY  ::  PROVIDENCE, R.I. 02912  ::  401-863-1187
<Richard_Noble at Br <RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU>own.edu>

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Jennifer MacDonald <jsmacdon at udel.edu>
wrote:

>  Dear colleagues,
>
> I have been silent on all of this, but I guess it's time to chime in.
> University of Delaware became the first "major" institution to adopt
> WorldShare Management Services, and we migrated last summer.
>
> WMS (which goes by many derogatory nicknames here, like WMD) is the way
> OCLC takes over your ILS. Circulation, reserves, cataloging, acquisitions,
> everything.  Not to put too fine a point on it, hearing talk about going to
> check an institution's local catalog makes me cringe, because WE NO LONGER
> HAVE A LOCAL CATALOG. We have OCLC records with extra things dangling from
> them. Whenever I explain it to someone outside of our library, they ask if
> I'm looking for another job (I'm not). The library spent about 18 months
> working with OCLC on the system, then another 12 months when it became
> clear that they wouldn't be ready for the go live date, and there is still
> continual communication and activity between UD and OCLC.
>
> When I search for a record in the metadata module of WMS, it takes me to
> the master record, the Local Bib Data (if there is one), and the Local
> Holdings Record (if there is one). Local notes go into the LBD (natch, but
> you never know with these things). Because I've been in denial for the past
> year, I haven't checked what our records look like on the other end, but I
> figured now was the time, and I have had a friend at a different
> institution take a look. *It is, in fact, possible for others to see the
> LBD*. When the holdings come up in WorldCat.org (I don't know about
> FirstSearch, I didn't check that yet), if you click on the holding
> library's name, the notes come up under the "Details" section.  This isn't
> a very exciting record (the book happened to be on my desk because one of
> the copies dropped out in the migration, which is a story for another day),
> but if you want to take a look, this is the record she checked:
> http://www.worldcat.org/title/entailed-hat-or-patty-cannons-times-a-romance/oclc/1875667&referer=brief_results
>
> Believe me, I'm not a fan of WMS, but at least for now, I know people can
> see our local data. Or at least she could ...
>
> Jennifer MacDonald
>
>
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