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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:13:51 -0500
From: "Caplan,Ellen" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: "Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines"
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For those of you who catalog maps on OCLC, please see the following
announcement from my colleague, Jay Weitz.  Thanks.

Ellen Caplan
OCLC, Metadata Services Division

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"Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC Coding Guidelines" Revised

A newly revised version of "Cataloging Electronic Resources: OCLC-MARC
Coding Guidelines" is now available on the OCLC Web site at
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/cataloging/type.htm.  This revision incorporates
changes necessitated by the implementation on 2001 December 1 of the new
"Amendments 2001" to the "Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition"
(AACR2), in particular the revised and renamed Chapter 9, "Electronic
Resources."  Printed copies of the AACR2 "Amendments 2001" are available
from the American Library Association (http://www.alastore.ala.org/), the
Canadian Library Association (http://www.cla.ca/marketplace/clabooks.htm),
and Library Association Publishing
(http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/publications.html).

The major change reflected in the OCLC guidelines is the new General
Material Designation (GMD) "[electronic resource]," although several other
current practices have also been clarified in response to user questions.
If you have printed out earlier versions of the OCLC document, please
discard them.  OCLC users should begin using the revised guidelines
immediately.


Jay Weitz
Consulting Database Specialist
OCLC Metadata Standards and Quality Division
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