Project Update November 29, 2006
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A variety of things have happened on the project front recently. The Projects page has just been updated, so I won’t go into all the details here, but the headlines are:
- Cataloguing (all original!) of the Steetley South Quarry Landfill documents has been completed
- Cataloguing has begun on the Russell Pamphlet collection
- The De-Duping project has gotten underway
In addition, the copy cataloguers continue to make terrific progress through the Source OECD titles and Wade has finished planning for the Kinesiology Publications cataloguing project–look for this to kick-off soon!
Coming to an OCLC Record Near You! November 24, 2006
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As of November 12, OCLC has fully implemented the ISBN-13 standard.
The interim step of putting 13-digit ISBNs into field 024 has been discontinued, and OCLC will be converting all those currently stored there to an 020. You may see some 024’s containing a Bookland EAN (a number associated with the publisher’s barcode), but there will probably be fewer of them coming over in our cataloguing. OCLC’s Technical Bulletin includes a nifty graphic on the different numbers. OCLC expects to run their conversion program in “late 2006.” Once this is done, we can stop flipping the 024s back to 020s!
OCLC has also modified the processing done to new records when they are loaded. The system will now automatically calculate the alternate version of the ISBN. So, if a record contains only a 10-digit ISBN, OCLC will calculate the 13-digit version and add it to the record. The reverse is also true–a record with only a 13-digit number will have the 10-digit version inserted.
What this means for us is that we may find OCLC records containing both ISBNs even if only one appears on the book. We will leave both ISBNs in the record so that users can search our catalogue with either version.
