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7 Technical Services L. Libr. 1 (1981-1982)

handle is hein.lcc/tsll0007 and id is 1 raw text is: TSSN 0195-4857 TEEjj1IL SERVICES LAW IRARIn Vol. 7, no. 1 September 1981 Newsletter of the Technical Services Special Interest Section and the On-line Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries CONVENTION ISSUE ON-LINE BIBLIOGRAPHIC SERVICES SIS Program Retrospective Conversion submitted by Ermina Hahn A program on Retrospective Cataloging was sponsored by the On-Line Biblio- graphic Services SIS at the 1981 Annual Convention in Washington, D.C., on June 28 at 10:30 A.M. The panel, comprised of Rae Shepherd-Schlecter, SUNY, Cortland; Albert Wang, OCLC, Inc., and James Larrabee, Berkeley was moderated by Joanne Scanlon. Ms. Schlecter, the first speaker, persuasively cited the advantages a library might expect from accomplishing retrospective conversion. Among these, she listed integration of functions such as purchase records, interlibrary loans, and circula- tion, as well as bibliographic functions. These functions will underlie better service. Conversion will overcome the difficulties of filing and cataloging rules, will allow more sophisticated searching and lessen the need for cross-references. Mr. Wang offered an alternative to in-house conversion; namely, contracting such a project to an outside vendor. He explained that OCLC offers this service utilizing its extensive database which is now in AACR II. To accomplish this conversion, the vendor would run a library's shelf list against its database and for each match would provide a new record. The charge structure from OCLC is based upon a unique unit charge. Factors influencing this unit charge are such things as the types of records, i.e., monographic, serial, AV; the language of the records; the expected hit rate; the percentage of cards with unique identifiers such as LC card number; and the individual library's editing requirements; that is, the extent of editing which may be required and the amount of local data required. The unit cost, therefore, will vary from library to library but Wang cited that in his experience it has varied from $.50 to $1.40. If there is no match for a given record on the existing database, OCLC will input an oliginal record and the contracting library receives the credit. Larabee, the last speaker gave details of the conversion program which was initiated about two years ago at the University of California, Berkeley, Law Library. Financial sponsorship has been provided by the University Library System in order to develop the largest possible database for an on-line biblio- graphic system. This system is not designed as an integrated one to include

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