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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]>
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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