Amy Turner asked what we thought of her pie-in-the-sky idea of a true
cooperative catalog. I agree that it sounds pretty wonderful. In some
of RLG's planning for the future, they anticipate that verifying
holdings will eventually involve a Z39.50 search from the central bib
to the holding institution's database. It doesn't seem that awfully
different from a situation whereby the local catalog fetched the bib
record from the central database when it needed to display the
authorized information. I won't speculate how this relates to FRBR at
the moment.
Amy, John De Santis, and others have mentioned authority vendor
processing. This is contextual. Our local system (currently Geac
Advance) has sophisticated authority mechanisms and could handle new
versions of authority records which would change the related bib
records if overlayed. Other systems wouldn't change the bibs without
intervention. Some systems have clumsy global change.
When someone mentioned the "b." solution, I heard the voice of Ben
Tucker saying that the b.'s would file as initials. Can't remember if
it was CC:DA or some other venue.
Sherman Clarke - NYU Libraries - [log in to unmask]
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