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1st edition MARC Record Guide for Monograph Aggregator Vendors 1 (2006)

handle is hein.lcc/marcrec0001 and id is 1 raw text is: MARC Record Guide for Monograph Aggregator Vendors Prepared by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging 2006 1. Introduction 1.1 Audience The primary audience for this guide is the community of publishers and vendors who make aggregations of monograph records available to libraries. The audience consists of consultants and librarians who share with vendors the common goal of producing MARC record sets for a set of items that have something in common-such as all items in a particular database, sets of books published as a group, etc. 1.2 Purpose Librarians consider several factors when deciding to purchase a database. The most important consideration is the quality and relevance of the content for library users. The second factor librarians consider is how their users will actually use the database. They realize that user discovery is enhanced by accurate metadata descriptions for the individual monographs/books in a database. To enhance user discovery, many libraries choose to load MARC records into their local online catalogs. Vendors can add substantial value to the databases they sell by providing accurately composed metadata for the individual titles in the databases. Ideally the metadata records should be created in MARC 21 format. Short of that, they should be created in a format that is easily convertible to MARC so that the records can be loaded into library catalogs. Most libraries endorse the one stop shopping- for students and faculty that results when 1) all records reside in a single catalog and 2) all records display bibliographic information consistently. Another important consideration is interoperability--records should be created in such a way that they can be readily exchanged between libraries and bibliographic utilities if the license permits. 1.3. Scope This guide includes references to resources that a vendor may wish to consult prior to undertaking a MARC record creation project. It does not attempt to

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