Local Holdings Maintenance glossary

AACR2: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition. The national/international standard for cataloging library materials. The rules are "designed for use in the construction of catalogues and other lists in general libraries of all sizes. ^ The rules cover the description of, and the provision of access points for, all library materials commonly collected at the present time." The rules are maintained by the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR and published by the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Library Association.
address: Words, numbers, or symbols that designate a physical or virtual location. Examples: street numbers and names, countries, e-mail addresses, URLs.
ANSI: American National Standards Institute. A nonprofit non-governmental organization composed of representatives from business and professional organizations. ANSI is the repository for various voluntary standards. See also NISO.
ANSI/NISO Standards for Holdings Data: The standard for holdings data exchange, providing a normative arrangement of data in records so that the data and records can be efficiently shared among users. Current ANSI/NISO standards for holdings data are documented in Holdings Statements for Bibliographic Items (ANSI Z39.71 1999). See also Level 1; Level 2; Level 3; Level 4.
archive record: The bibliographic record OCLC creates and stores that contains local changes made by an institution to the master record. Archive records are a complete history of an institution's OCLC cataloging activity. OCLC uses archive records to create offline products—catalog cards, magnetic tape cartridges of records, electronic files of records. Note: Editing an existing local holdings record (LHR) does not create an archive record. Creating an LHR that sets a library's holdings on a record does create an archive record.
ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard computer character code set, consisting of alphanumeric characters, punctuation, and a few control characters (such as a carriage return). Each ASCII character consists of 7 information bits and 1 parity bit for error checking.
assigned search key: A string of characters assigned to an item by an agency which can be used to retrieve the record for that item.
authorization level: See authorization mode.
authorization mode: Defines a range of tasks that can be performed when logged on to a service.
authorization number: Number assigned by OCLC to authorize use of OCLC services. Usually used in conjunction with a password. See also password, default holding library code.

bibliographic information: Details about an item that are sufficient to identify it for the purpose of retrieval are placed in a specific format that describes one item in a collection. Examples: author, title, publisher, publication location, edition, series title, and notes.
bibliographic record: Contains the cataloging information that describes the physical format and intellectual content of a single entity (a book, video, computer file, CD, etc.). Catalogers create records by encoding this information using tags, indicators, and subfield codes in a standard format, MARC 21 (MAchine-Readable Cataloging). Each record is divided into fields (author, title, subjects, etc.) Fields are subdivided into subfields (place of publication, publisher, etc.).
brief list: Default display of WorldCat search results when a search retrieves 2 to 5 records.

call number: A set of letters, numerals or other symbols (in combination or alone) used by a library to identify a specific copy of a work. A call number consists of the class number and book number (or Cutter number).
Cataloging Agent mode: An authorization mode that allows the Cataloging Agent of an institution or a group to process cataloging records on a client's behalf. Agents may also process unresolved records from the group's batchloading activity.
chronology: Types of dates used by publishers to identify the individual bibliographic unit of a serial, for example, date of coverage, date of publication, or date of printing.
classification number: The part of a call number, usually a combination of letters and numbers, used to classify library resources by subject area.
CODEN: The Chemical Abstracts Service assigns six-character codes to serials. The first five characters have a mnemonic relationship to the serial. The last character is an alphabetic or numeric check character. For example, AISJB6, CADIDW.
communications format: In machine-readable cataloging (MARC), the standards for representation and exchange of data in machine-readable form. In the USA, this is an implementation of an ANSI standard. MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data (formerly called USMARC) is an implementation of ANSI standard Z39.2. OCLC-MARC is an implementation of MARC 21 that conforms to the ANSI standard. Standards provide a common way of organizing machine-readable records so that they can be easily exchanged among users.
completeness: An indication of how much of a published run of a serial is held. Completeness is indicated in ranges, for example, Complete (95% 100% held), Incomplete (50%-94% held), Scattered (less than 50% held).
conference name: All or part of the name or title of a conference. A conference name could also be included in a title, abstract, notes, or text of a library resource. Examples: names of meetings, exhibitions, expositions, festivals, athletic contests, scientific expeditions.
continuing resource: A bibliographic resource that is issued over time with no predetermined conclusion. Continuing resources include serials and ongoing integrating resources.
corporate name: The names of associations, institutions, businesses, firms, nonprofit enterprises, governments, agencies, performing groups used as entries in records.
CSD: See OCLC Customer Services Division (CSD).
Custom Holdings: Customized groups of preferred lenders; you define the groups for sets of similar requests.
Custom Holdings Group record: A record that contains OCLC symbols of preferred lenders within a particular category (for example, Books or State).
Custom Holdings Locations record: A display associated with a WorldCat record that lists institutions from which you prefer to borrow.
Custom Holdings Path record: A record that contains one or more custom holdings group records sorted in order of borrowing preference.

default: Selections made by the computer or a software program in the absence of specific instructions by the user.
default holding library code: The holding library code that appears automatically in bibliographic field 049 (Local Holdings) when a user displays a bibliographic record. Each authorization number/password combination has a default holding library code. See also authorization number, password.
default holdings displays: The system responds to a display holdings command with a list of all, regional, or state holdings on a record, depending upon the number of holdings the record has.
delimiter: Character (‡), followed by a single letter or number code, used to define the beginning of a subfield within a variable field in a MARC bibliographic or authority record. See also subfield.; The delimiter is entered as a dollar sign ($). The delimiter character (‡) appears in records in display mode. See also subfield.
detailed level information: Holdings statement at the most detailed level of enumeration and chronology. See also Level 4.
Dewey Decimal class number: A classification number that conforms to the conventions used in the Dewey Decimal Classification system. The classes used to identify library resources are: 000, General Works; 100, Philosophy & Psychology; 200, Religion; 300, Social Sciences; 400, Language; 500, Natural Sciences & Math; 600, Applied Sciences (Technology); 700, Fine Arts; 800, Literature; 900, Geography & History.
diacritic: A mark that modifies the phonetic value of another character or characters. It does not occur alone but is used in conjunction with another character. In records each diacritic occupies its own position, directly following the modified character.
directory: In a file of records, the series of entries that contain the tag, length and starting location of each variable field in a record.
display holdings: A command to view the list of institution symbols that hold an item. In WorldCat Resource Sharing, used to select potential lenders.

embedded holdings data: Holdings information added to an existing MARC 21 bibliographic record rather than being in a separate linked local holding record.
enumeration: The nonchronological scheme used by publishers to identify an individual serial and to show the relationship of the individual unit of the serial to the series as a whole. For example, Volume 235 and Volume X are indicators of enumeration.

field: In a record, a marked area in which the same kind of information is consistently entered.
file structure: See record structure.
fill character: A black box or vertical bar in workforms that represents content that must have valid data.
fixed field: In OCLC-MARC, as defined in OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards, the field in which mnemonic labels identify elements that contain coded information for descibing the item and the record. The fixed field has a fixed length. It is a combination of various MARC 21 control fields.
format: A standard for the representation and exchange of data in machine-readable form. Standard organization for MARC bibliographic records. The library community uses formats so that MARC records can be readily transferred among automated systems. See also record structure.
free-text field: A field in which subfields are loosely defined to permit text (rather than coded) data entry.
frequency: The interval at which a publisher distributes a serial publication.
FTU: First time use. The first time a library uses a record already in WorldCat that it did not input.
full bibliographic record: The complete display, including all fields and subfields, of a bibliographic record on one or more screens.
function keys: Keys and key combinations on the keyboard that transmit signals not associated with printable or displayable characters (examples: F1, F2, etc). In specific applications, such as OCLC Connexion, function keys are programmed to initiate commands.

GAC: Group Access Capability. A group of institutions that use the OCLC system for resource sharing and interlibrary lending. A GAC has full and selective members. A selective user has access to only abbreviated bibliographic records, and only to records for its own group. Groups are composed of at least one Full member and may include Selective members who use WorldCat Resource Sharing only. GAC can also refer to the group itself.
GAC/UL: Group Access Capability/Union List. The same as a GAC, but a selective user also has access to local holdings records for its group.
general retention policy: Denotes the period for which the serial is retained or held by the location, for example, Permanently retained, Retained for a limited period, and Not retained.
government document number: Government-assigned number for materials printed at the expense of and by the authority of any office of the government, for example, United States Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) numbers. Other government numbers may be used such as Canadian government numbers from the Outline of Classification. The form of these numbers varies.
group list: Default display of WorldCat search results with a search retrieves 101 to 1500 records. Groups of records are sorted by type of material and year of publication. Clicking an entry opens a brief or truncated list, depending on the number of records represented by the group list entry. 1500 is the system limit for retrieving WorldCat records.

heading on a list: On the first line of each list or bibliographic record is a heading that describes the search and indicates the number of records retrieved. Depending on the search, the description may include database name, index labels, title phrases, keywords, numeric derived search, qualifier labels and qualifiers.
Help: Electronic user documentation that is available from the Help menu of a specific product such as Connexion, FirstSearch, etc.
holding library: The library or collection within an institution represented by the holding library code. See OCLC holding library code.
holding library code: See OCLC holding library code.
holdings: 1) OCLC institution symbols attached to a record, indicating libraries that own the item described by the record. 2) The collective resources owned or held by the library.
holdings display: A list of OCLC symbols of institutions that hold the item. A holdings display accompanies each bibliographic record in WorldCat. See also Custom Holdings Locations record.
holdings information: The location, status and/or copies associated with a single bibliographic item of a specific publication held by a particular institution.
holdings levels: See also ANSI/NISO Standards for Holdings Data; See also Level 1; Level 2; Level 3; Level 4.
holdings symbol: See OCLC holding library code.

index: A detailed alphabetical or numerical list representing a specific kind of bibliographic data provided for databases for retrieving a record or sets of records.
index label: A two- or three-character code followed by a colon or equal sign that indicates to the system the index against which to match a search term.
initial article: Articles (the, an, a, and non-English articles) that are the first word in a title or corporate name.
institution symbol: See OCLC symbol.
institution-specific file: Records accessible only to an individual institution and OCLC that have been used or will be used by the institution.
International Standard Book Number (ISBN): A unique identification number assigned to a work by its publisher. Each ISBN has ten characters. The tenth character is a check character that may be a number or the letter x. In printed form, the ISBN has three hyphens. Hyphens are omitted in online records.
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): A unique identification number assigned to a serial through the ISSN Network. Each ISSN has eight characters. The eighth character is a check character that may be a number or the letter x. A hyphen follows the fourth character.

Level 1: ANSI/NISO standard that identifies the item at the location level. This can include the institution, the library, the physical site and/or the collection in which the item is located or from which it is available.
Level 2: ANSI/NISO standard that identifies items at the location level (Level 1) and includes record creation date, physical form, completeness, acquisition, retention information and local notes.
Level 3: ANSI/NISO standard that contains all Level 2 information and identifies the item at the summary level of chronology and/or enumeration. See also chronology; enumeration.
Level 4: ANSI/NISO standard that contains all Level 2 information and identifies the item at the detailed level of chronology and/or enumeration. See also chronology; enumeration.
LHR: Local holdings record.; See local holdings record.
Local Holdings Agent mode: An authorization mode that allows the Holdings Agent of a union list group to create and maintain local holdings records on a member's behalf.
local holdings format: The communications formats for representation and exchange of holdings data created at a library. It is often MARC 21 Holdings format that conforms to the ANSI/NISO standard with variations for local purposes. See also MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data; local holdings record.
local holdings information: The information taken from OCLC Local Holdings Records that makes up other Local Holdings displays. For example, group displays and institution displays contain local holdings information.; See local holdings format; local holdings record.
Local Holdings Maintenance: OCLC service that helps libraries maintain accurate, current holdings information by providing a library's holdings for materials in any format, including serials. Formerly called Union Listing.
local holdings record: The local libraries holdings record based on the local holdings format.; The OCLC record used to contain and exchange holdings data for WorldCat records. Local holdings records form the basis for local holdings displays.. OCLC Connexion browser provides access to the Local Holdings Maintenance service that enables you to maintain local holdings records for your institution.
location record: A display of the OCLC symbols of all libraries that have used a bibliographic record in WorldCat for cataloging and have attached their OCLC symbol.

main entry: The entry determined by AACR2 to be the primary access point for the item.
MARC: Machine-Readable Cataloging. An internationally acceptable standard for the exchange of bibliographic data in machine-readable form.
MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data: The format for representation and exchange of holdings data from the Library of Congress. See also communications format.
MARC record: MAchine-Readable Cataloging record. A bibliographic, authority, or other record type based on standards for representing and exchanging electronic data. See also communications format.
monograph: An item complete in one part or a specified number of parts; compare, serial.

NEPU: The Union List group symbol for the United States Newspaper Program.
NISO: National Information Standards Organization. Accredited by ANSI to develop voluntary technical standards for the library, information sciences, and publishing communities. See also ANSI.
NISO standards: See ANSI/NISO Standards for Holdings Data.
Nongap break: In local holdings records, an indication that no issued items are missing, but a gap exists in the publication or numbering of the serial itself. For example, a change in enumeration of the series may cause a nongap break in the enumeration.
Notes: Supply significant additional information about an item described in a bibliographic record.

OCLC: Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Nonprofit membership organization serving libraries around the world to further access to the world's information and reduce library costs by offering services for libraries and their users.
OCLC Connexion: Integrated cataloging service that offers access to WorldCat, the OCLC Authority File and other online databases. The browser interface provides access via Internet Explorer or Netscape browser. The client interface provides access via Microsoft Windows-based software installed on user workstations. The browser interface also provides access to CatExpress and Dewey Services and supports creation of pathfinders and other electronic resources. The client also provides use of macros, local files, offline cataloging, integrated label processing, cataloging using non-Latin scripts, and batch processing.
OCLC Connexion browser: One of two interfaces to OCLC Connexion cataloging services and products. Introduced in mid-2002, the Web-browser-based interface provides the same access to cataloging in WorldCat as the Connexion client. The browser interace also provides some unique functions, including Dublin Core record format, WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey, CatExpress, Pathfinders, Digital Archive, and Local Holdings Maintenance.
OCLC Connexion client: One of two interfaces to OCLC Connexion cataloging services and products. Introduced in the second half of 2003, the Windows-based software interface provides the same access to cataloging in WorldCat as the Connexion browser. The client interface also provides some unique functions, including the use of macros and an automatic macro recorder, extensive keyboard shortcut customization, integrated label printing, local files for offline cataloging, batch processing for searches and record actions, use of multiscript data for cataloging in languages other than those based on Latin script, and more.
OCLC Customer Services Division (CSD): OCLC's user assistance and support contact desk that provides support for telecommunications, hardware, and software.
OCLC holding library code: A unique code that identifies a holding library within an institution. See also OCLC symbol.; It also identifies a holding library in a GAC or GAC/UL.
OCLC symbol: A unique identifier assigned by OCLC to members and participants. OCLC symbols in records and in holdings displays identify libraries that have entered and used the bibliographic record for cataloging. See also OCLC holding library code.
OCLC Union List: Former name for OCLC Local Holdings Maintenance, a service for creating, maintaining, and displaying holdings information. This information can be used to facilitate union listing, resource sharing and collection development participants in union list groups members.
OCLC User and Network Support (UNS): See OCLC Customer Services Division (CSD).
OCLC-MARC format: OCLC's implementation of the MARC bibliographic format.
Open-ended holding: A holdings statement that indicates an item (such as a serial, a series, or a multipart work) is still in publication.

password: A sequence of characters required to gain access to a computer system. Usually used in conjunction with an authorization number. See also authorization number , default holding library code.
Policies Directory record: Record that contains name, address, interlibrary loan policy, and other communication information about an institution or unit of an institution. The OCLC Policies Directory replaced the Name-Address Directory as a repository for this type of information.

record structure: In MARC 21 formats, record structure is the order in which the content designators and content appear in the record and/or file. Record structure can include such specifications as tape media, header, blocking techniques, and characters sets used in the record and in files. The terms record format and record structure are often used interchangeably. Record format is generally the broader term and often refers to a combination of record structure, content designation, and content of the record. See also content designation; content of the record.

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serial

A continuing resource issued in successive discrete parts, bearing number or chronological designations, and intended to continue indefinitely. Serials include annual reports, continuing directories, electronic journals, journals, magazines, monographic series and newspapers.

Serials format

OCLC-MARC format used to catalog serials. You can qualify searches to limit results to records for serials (ser).

series

Uniform volumes of a library resource that are related by subject matter, issued successively, and generally by the same publisher in a uniform style.

series title

The collective title of all items in a series, as opposed to each item's individual title.

Example.

Series title. Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics

Title (of individual item in series). Modes in Denya Discourse

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