Bibliographic Record Notification

OCLC Bibliographic Record Notification eases catalog maintenance by automatically delivering updated MARC records to your library. It’s also a helpful companion service to OCLC PromptCat. The result: your staff spends less time searching and editing and has more time for other complex cataloging tasks.

How it works

Every day, the Bibliographic Record Notification service compares all upgraded OCLC MARC records to the records your library has holdings attached to, and then sends you upgraded records based on a detailed profile that tells us what updates are important to you. You receive new records byElectronic Data Exchange (EDX) or download them from the OCLC Product Services Web, then load the upgraded records into your system. Reports summarizing the type of upgrades and quantity of records being delivered are also available.

Options available

As part of your Bibliographic Record Notification profile, you choose to receive one or both of these MARC record upgrades:

• OCLC-MARC records that have been upgraded from minimal-level to full-level cataloging
• OCLC-MARC records in which the 505 field, Table of Contents, has been added, enhanced or deleted in WorldCat

You can also:

• Limit the type of records received by format, encoding level and publication date (for instance, receive only those records that are upgraded from Encoding Level 8 in Books (BKS) format from 1990 forward)
• Exclude delivery of records your library upgrades
• Have the call number field moved to another location in the MARC record to assure that the record does not overwrite your locally assigned call number
• Add a local note to your upgraded OCLC-MARC record

To learn more about Bibliographic Record Notification, view these helpful questions and answers.

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