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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1976
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED149769 |
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- NUC: Location or Cataloging Information--A Conflict of Role. Payne, Eleanor R. Cataloging Classification Committees Library Standards Quality Control Reports Research Libraries Special Libraries Union Catalogs A catalog committee operating within the University of California library system investigated ways to standardize subject and name entries for the National Union Catalog (NUC). Two sources identified as the contributors of most of the unreliable NUC card copies were research libraries with large special collections requiring expanded or refined subject headings and staff of special libraries whose primary function is not cataloging. The following solutions were proposed to the Cataloging and Classification Section (CSS) Executive Committee of RTSD at the ALA Midwinter Conference: (1) addition of brackets to non LC subject headings; (2) addition of a letter system (i.e., "X") to the reporting symbol of independent special libraries which do not avail themselves of the central cataloging agency available to them; and (3) inclusion of classification numbers to NUC card copy with brackets around those numbers which are not LC or Dewey authorized. The CSS committee felt the addition of brackets would increase the cost of producing the NUC and computerized libraries would need to reprogram in order to avoid brackets around tracings when they appeared at the top of a card. The report concludes with follow up recommendations made by the California Committee with a special plea for an authority list to be created and maintained when the NUC becomes available in machine readable form. (Author/JPF)