Amy,
A comment I heard a few years ago has made me feel that coding a record 'PCC' is counter-productive. One cataloger of A-V material indicated that she always contributes at the K level because then others can add to her records.
My problem with BIBCO records is that I may create that 'perfect' record today with matching authority records and tomorrow someone will change one of those authority records and that BIBCO coding won't mean anything since the matching heading did not get changed. BFM only went one way... to LC, never to other contributing libraries so in my humble opinion the BIBCO process never worked.
I support Authority control in many ways and hope we can encourage more participation but until our BIBCO records are kept in synch with the authority records, the only use for the PCC coding is to send these through copy cataloging.
Enhance should be relaxed and it should be made 'easy' to correct errors without having to evaluate the entire record.
My very personal 2 cents,
Mary Charles
From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging on behalf of Amy H Turner
Sent: Mon 5/12/2008 9:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCCLIST] Horrible record [going off on the tangent of Enc lvl]