D.K. Agencies Loads Records into WorldCat

OCLC has begun adding files of MARC records from D.K. Agencies to WorldCat.

D.K. Agencies, founded in 1968, are booksellers and subscription agents handling publications originating from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka and serving university, research and public libraries around the world. They supply books in English, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Hindi and other vernacular languages of India (Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil, Urdu, etc.) through firm orders and blanket orders/approval plans.

Having been involved in the cataloging of Indian books for over 35 years, D.K. Agencies offer the largest database of Indian books. Recently, they have started adding tag 880 to the MARC records in the original scripts of all the major Indian languages. They also provide retrospective conversion services to libraries.

When a D.K. Agencies record (OCLC symbol DKAGE) is added or matched to WorldCat, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code DKAP. This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable in Connexion using the vendor index (Vendor (vn:) in the dropdown menu). Some examples of the records added to WorldCat from D.K. are OCLC numbers: #269249501, #277280429, and #286356742. Examples of records matched are: #244293471, #247448076, and #214280503.

For information about D.K. Agencies, visit their Web site at: http://www.dkagencies.com/.

See a list of all partners contributing records through the Vendor Record Contribution Program.

(2009 01 19)