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I couldn't say offhand where AACR2 description is mandated for BIBCO program records, but I certainly had never thought it to be optional. It rather boggles me to think we might get PCC records with description that follows old rules. Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:37:37 -0400 Reply-to: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> From: Jennifer Bowen <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Eastman School of Music Subject: Question: Bib. records with pre-AACR2 description To: Multiple recipients of list BIBCO <[log in to unmask]> 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 -- Jennifer Bowen Head, Technical Services Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music 27 Gibbs St., Rochester, NY 14604 (716) 274-1370 [log in to unmask] Pete Wilson Cataloging & Authorities Team Resource Services Division Vanderbilt University Library 419 21st Ave. So. Nashville, TN 37240 [log in to unmask]