My feeling is that in order to call a record a BIBCO record it should be
fully AACR2 in addition to having all access points under authority
control. Since you correctly point out that upgrading the headings
without upgrading the description would still be doing a service, why not
just consider these an ordinary OCLC enhance instead of BIBCO? You'll get
your enhance credit for them but they wouldn't be coded as pcc records.
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Jennifer Bowen wrote:
> BIBCO colleagues:
>
> As part of retrospective conversion, we encounter a significant number
> of bib. records in OCLC (for sound recordings, at the moment) that could
>
> potentially be upgraded to BIBCO program records because all of the
> access points are covered by authority records. If we want to do this,
> must we upgrade the DESCRIPTION to AACR2 as well as the access points?
> Is this issue addressed in any PCC documentation or standard?
>
> I can tell you that if the answer is: "yes, you need to upgrade the
> description", we will just abandon the idea of upgrading the records
> altogether. However, it seems to us that our verifying the access
> points and upgrading these to program records, even with leaving the
> description "as is", would be a useful service for other libraries.
>
> Anybody have an answer to this?
>
> Jennifer
>
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> Jennifer Bowen
> Head, Technical Services
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