Catalog Working Group - Reclamation and batch loading

The Catalog Working Group is a sub-group of the Implementation Team.

Members. Chair: Nancy Nathanson; Vice-Chair: Michael Boock.
Reclamation/batch loading contact at each member institution.

Issues and questions. Also see Meeting notes July 17-18 for even more topics.

Meeting notes: Summit Day, July 17 and July 18. All Reclamation & Batch loading contacts at member institutions were encouraged to participate; Tracy DeGood and Margi Mann attended from OCLC. Topics included these and more: Reclamation (with Cancel holdings); What to send; Vendor records; ongoing Batchloads; What to send and what to do with it when it comes back.

Meeting notes: May 12.

Memo: Survey to prepare for reclamation and batch loading projects

Reclamation and Batchloading Form: online form, examples of completed forms, and instructions

NEW What comes back from OCLC: Tips for loading OCLC records or OCLC numbers

• OCLC symbols for Alliance members. by member
• Notes from Overview-Introductory meeting (phone) with OCLC
  
• Holdings in OCLC: Overview and options
  • OCLC Overview - Set, update, or cancel.
  • Set or update holdings - OCLC document
  • Local point of view: what should my institution do? Our recommendations
• Batch processing: OCLC documentation.
  
  • Bibliographic Record Snapshot Q&A from OCLC with lots of detail on Holding and OCLC symbols, record consolidation, and more
  • Matching algorithm: information coming soon (by end of July) on OCLC matching algorithm, role of material type in matching, etc.
    
  • More description from OCLC about Batch loading and Reclamation.
  • Testimonials on batch processing and reclamation projects
• California Digital Library's UC/OCLC project. Especially interesting:
  • Task Groups such as Records Missing from WorldCat and OCLC Holdings Symbols.
  • Cataloging and Metadata Common Interest Group (CAMCIG), some information about reclamation in minutes of meetings 2007 June and Nov. 2007, and Jan. 2008.

• From BNA, RLIN, WLN, etc. (Alliance info to be posted)
• Record sets from other sources (examples of vendor-supplied records)
  001 prefixes in Summit.
  001 fields with non-OCLC number (list of members and # of records)
  Current instructions for 001 patterns.

Here's a list of some topics for all subgroups of Catalog to get the ball rolling. The group will refine and expand this list as it develops the scope of work to be done.