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>On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Susan Yannello wrote: > >> As an employee of the Donohue Group, a library contractor doing cataloging >> for an assortment of different libraries, I have a little different view of >> this question. ... >> ... In order to provide good >> service to our clients and to the library community as a whole, we need to >> be able to participate in the PCC program. We would like to see the concept >> of independent participant become more mainstream. >> > >I think we'd all benefit as well. Have you applied for PCC participation >in any of the areas? The one hang-up might be mode of contribution. That >is, OCLC or RLIN membership is required, I think, as a means of >contributing the new records. > We have gone through the NACO training course and have become a participant. PCC worked out the details so that we could participate. There is one problem and you've hit on it exactly. We access both RLIN and OCLC through our clients' authorizations but, depending on the contracts we have available at any one time, we might lose access temporarily. We haven't found a way to overcome this. Susan Susan Yannello (860) 529-2938 Project Manager FAX: (860) 529-5849 The Donohue Group 185 Silas Deane Highway Wethersfield, CT 06109