Long time reader, first time commenter...
When I read this, I wonder if she's referring to the fact that
institutions can buy vendor-generated MARC records for electronic
serials.
I'm a serials cataloger and my institution just purchased
vendor-generated MARC records for our electronic serials holdings. Each
month we get a file with new records, records that have been changed,
and records to be deleted. These records have a generic note in the 856
field, where our holdings statement used to be, and a URL that
re-directs users to our A-Z list. The A-Z list is now where our holdings
information sits and where the URL to the resource is. Having these
records allows us to have individual records in our catalog for all of
the titles we have access to at any given time--including aggregator
databases. After each monthly record load, I do cleanup to our catalog.
These records have certainly provided a change in my job description. I
have moved from cataloging electronic serials and updating holdings
statements to doing cleanup after monthly record loads.
I suppose, if we assume that this is what Calhoun means, that catalogers
will move from creating and editing records in a global database of
shared records to doing database cleanup when purchased records are
added to their catalog. I'm not sure how this is revolutionary, though,
as libraries are already buying vendor-generated records for monographs.
Erin Leach
Catalog Librarian
Washington University in St. Louis
eleach_at_wustl.edu
(314) 935-4823
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I'm curious to hear from a serials cataloger what the "enormous wave of
change that passed through serials librarianship in the last ten years"
is. Apparently it involved "bringing new automated techniques for record
creation and maintenance and demanding new job descriptions, skill sets
and tools," writes Calhoun. So, I guess she's saying a similar thing is
going to happen with monographic cataloging, but we'd need to know what
happened with serials cataloging to know what she's saying exactly.
Jonathan
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Jonathan Rochkind
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Received on Tue Jul 10 2007 - 08:34:15 EDT