Charles said:

>since we are talking about revenue streams here.  At the root of this
>question is the question of how they are prepping themselves for a
>world of linked data in which libraries link back to LC, NLM, NAL,
>Getty, OCLC, BL, or LAC rather than to the vendors?

Unless OCLC changes its policies, vendors can not function in such a
bibliographic world.

OCLC policy does not allow vendors to retain copies of records created
on or downloaded from OCLC.  This is impossible for SLC, since we need
the records to add copies and volumes, or replace the database for
system migration (when the current ILS can't do MARC out), or in the
case of systems crash.

How could non OCLC libraries, as well as vendors, link to OCLC data?


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