-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Cataloging question for U.S. Map catalogers Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:27:43 -0400 From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] References: <[log in to unmask]> Angie, We're allowed to create new records in English for these as they are considered parallel records in OCLC. That's what we do, we ignore the German, Dutch, etc. records and create new ones. /Much less/ of a headache than trying to edit their records in their language. Paige At 04:45 PM 9/15/2009, you wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a question for U.S. catalogers. When you run into those records > out in OCLC that were created by a German, Dutch, Scandinavian, etc. - > non-English, non-AACR2 library - how do you handle it? Do you edit and > copy catalog or do you start from scratch and create an original? > > Thanks. > > Angie > AGS Library