cataloging web sites
Steven Dunlap
sdunlap at ggu.edu
Thu Jun 20 11:27:11 EDT 2002
Please forgive me if this topic has been covered already--I am new to this list and to my job as Head of Technical Services.
I am returning to TS work after years of working as a reference librarian. I have found we have an *interesting* problem in our OPAC.
About 4 or 5 years ago our cataloger started to add 856 fields to records for serials that we receive in paper that either had web equivalents or (especially true of gov docs) the paper had been replaced with a web version. The Head of TS in the law library at my institution has told me that the Committee revising AACR2 has decided that each format, including web, must have a separate bib record. That means that our practice of one bib for web and paper has become a Bozo no-no.
My question is has anyone else gotten themselves into this situation: hundreds of "hybrid" records that now lie outside AACR2's guidelines? What have other cataloging dept.s done about this? Has anyone decided to ignore AACR2's guidelines in this regard? If anyone has done a recon project do you have any estimate, guesstimate or solid stats on the cost per record?
Thanks in advance for the info.
Steven Dunlap sad at ggu.edu
Head, Technical Services and Systems
University Library - Golden Gate University
San Francisco, California
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<DIV>Please forgive me if this topic has been covered already--I am new to this
list and to my job as Head of Technical Services.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am returning to TS work after years of working as a reference
librarian. I have found we have an *interesting* problem in our
OPAC. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>About 4 or 5 years ago our cataloger started to add 856 fields to records
for serials that we receive in paper that either had web equivalents or
(especially true of gov docs) the paper had been replaced with a web
version. The Head of TS in the law library at my institution has told me
that the Committee revising AACR2 has decided that each format, including web,
must have a separate bib record. That means that our practice of one bib
for web and paper has become a Bozo no-no.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>My question is has anyone else gotten themselves into this situation:
hundreds of "hybrid" records that now lie outside AACR2's guidelines? What
have other cataloging dept.s done about this? Has anyone decided to ignore
AACR2's guidelines in this regard? If anyone has done a recon project do
you have any estimate, guesstimate or solid stats on the cost per record?
</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks in advance for the info.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Steven Dunlap <A
href="mailto:sad at ggu.edu">sad at ggu.edu</A><BR>Head, Technical Services and
Systems<BR>University Library - Golden Gate University<BR>San Francisco,
California</DIV></BODY></HTML>
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