Baker & Taylor records now being added to worldcat
Baker & Taylor, the leading supplier of materials to public libraries, is now adding records to WorldCat.
Baker & Taylor, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, provides books, music, DVDs, and video games and supports collection management and technical services to libraries around the world. The titles are being added as part of the agreement between Baker & Taylor and OCLC, to partner in providing bibliographic records and expanded technical services to schools and public libraries. See the press release about this partnership at: http://www.btol.com/viewnews.cfm?press_id=161&typ=c
And, you may access Baker & Taylor’s website.
Baker & Taylor records loaded into WorldCat are from two sources:
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Baker & Taylor’s cataloging file, containing full and CIP cataloging MARC records from Library of Congress as well as full cataloging MARC records, produced by Baker & Taylor’s MLS Catalogers when there was no LOC record, and
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Baker & Taylor’s product file, containing brief non-MARC records used in B&T’s Order Processing System.
These records are converted to MARC by an OCLC mapping process. Both types of records are then matched against WorldCat records through a batch process. When a record is matched, BTCTA is added to field 040 subfield d. This indicates that field 938 has been added to the matching record and contains Baker & Taylor product data (Baker & Taylor unique identifier, i.e., book number). No other editing of records occurs as part of this process. When no matching record is identified through the batch process, OCLC adds the Baker & Taylor record as a new record to WorldCat. This record contains the symbol BTCTA in field 040 subfields a and c.
Examples:
Cataloging file matches: #77573121, #77589800, #75390371
Cataloging file adds: #123119571, #123119328, #123118608
Product file matches: #70712452, #77553985
Product file adds: #144216551, #144216552, #144216553
Added product file records are very brief and are coded as abbreviated records (Encoding Level 3). They are not created by or examined by a cataloger. This provides customers using the new Baker& Taylor/OCLC Cataloging Plus service with access to the OCLC number early in the acquisitions workflow. For more information on these services go here.
OCLC encourages member libraries who acquire one of these titles to upgrade and replace the record and receive credit on your OCLC bill for upgrading that record. As Baker & Taylor catalogers are performing cataloging services for customers, they will also be upgrading these records. This is an important and key feature of the Baker & Taylor / OCLC agreement.
In both cases of original records and matches, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code BTCP. This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable using the vendor information keyword index. For a list of all partners contributing records through the Vendor Record Contribution Program, go here.
(2007 06 14)
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