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About This Guide

Overview

Scope

The WorldCat Cataloging Partners User Guide presents information about a collaborative relationship with materials vendors that delivers OCLC-MARC records to match the materials ordered through participating vendor partners and sets library holdings automatically in WorldCat. The Guide provides an overview of the service, procedures for using the service, and descriptions of how the service processes records.

Audience for this Guide

The WorldCat Cataloging Partners User Guide assumes a general knowledge of OCLC Cataloging services. The Guide can be used as an introduction to WorldCat Cataloging Partners (WCP), as an instruction manual for using WCP, and as a reference tool to answer questions about WCP.

Ordering WorldCat Cataloging Partners

You can order WorldCat Cataloging Partners through the OCLC Online Service Center.

For help completing the order form, contact your regional service provider.

Availability of this Guide

This Guide is available on the OCLC Web site at < http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/catalogingpartners/using/guide/default.htm>.

Typographic conventions

In this Guide, data that you must enter exactly as shown appears in boldface type, for example, pdn. Data you need to supply appears in italic type in brackets, for example, edx.pcat.[slc]. Do not enter the brackets.

Terminology

WorldCat Cataloging Partners is the name of the new OCLC service formed by the merger of the OCLC PromptCat service and the Cataloging Partners program. You may see these names referred to in this Guide because not all older terms have been renamed.

More information

See the following sources for more information about WorldCat Cataloging Partners. The remaining documents are available at the OCLC Web site, at the address given.

Source Description of Information
OCLC WorldCat Cataloging Partners web site
 Information about using WorldCat Cataloging Partners vendor partners, and other information.
Bibliographic Formats and Standards
 Definitions and descriptions of fields and subfields in OCLC-MARC records.
EDX User Guide
 Requirements and step-by-step procedures for sending files to or retrieving files from various OCLC services.
Product Services Web Reference Card
 How to use OCLC Product Services via the World Wide Web.
OCLC-MARC Records
 Record and file specifications and lists of valid fields and subfields in OCLC-MARC records.
WorldCat Cataloging Partners Order Form

Contains information on specific ordering options.

PromptCat Listserv. For information on the listserv, including how to subscribe, see:

< http://lists.luc.edu/listinfo/promptcat >

Ongoing discussion, current information, and support for WCP users. The listserv is maintained by Loyola University in Chicago.


Acknowledgments

OCLC acknowledges the efforts of those who contributed to making this Guide:

OCLC Reviewers: Robin Buser, Bob Pearson, Kristina Truthan, Maureen Huss, Renee Register, Tim Savage, Jenny Tweed, Julie Whitley

Regional Service Provider Reviewers: Laura Bartolini, Cynthia Wilson (PALINET)

Writer: Chris Dawson