Donohue Group Contributing Original MARC Records to WorldCat

The Donohue Group, Inc. (DGI), is a provider of professional contract technical and consulting services to libraries, historical societies and museums. 

Founded in 1984, they have been known to libraries for many years for quality contract cataloging. 

 One of the services offered by DGI is Publishers Cataloging in Publication (PCIP).  Within this program, a publisher who is not eligible to participate in the LC CIP program may contract with DGI for creation of PCIP.  You can read more about DGI’s PCIP program at:

http://www.dgiinc.com/pcip.htm

 DGI is now contributing these PCIP records to WorldCat.  As a result, cataloging for these titles will be available in WorldCat prior to a library’s acquisition of the title.  This enables OCLC member libraries to do copy cataloging rather than costly original cataloging. 

 PCIP prepared by DGI looks very similar to LC CIP.  When added to WorldCat, the DGI PCIP records will be set at encoding level (Elvl) M, which is the OCLC code for batchload records that are less than full level.  This encoding level may be upgraded by any member library with a full cataloging authorization.  Doing such an upgrade earns the library an upgrade credit.  The records contain an incomplete 300 field, much like the LC CIP records do, though the DGI PCIP is often subfielded and may indicate whether illustrations will be present in the subfield b.  Other than the information that is not available pre-publication, the records are quite complete.  They contain complete LC and Dewey classification numbers as well as LCSH and LC subject headings for children’s literature as appropriate.

 When a DGI record is added to WorldCat, a 938 field is added to the MARC record that contains the vendor code DONE.  This code is indexed; vendor records are searchable in Connexion using the vendor index (Vendor (vn:) in the dropdown menu).  Some examples of the PCIP records contributed by the Donohue Group to WorldCat are OCLC numbers: #71217053; #71217030; #71216919; #71216988

 For more information on the Donohue Group, see their website at:

http://www.dgiinc.com/home.htm

 For a list of all partners contributing records through the Vendor Record Contribution Program, see:

http://www.oclc.org/partnerships/material/contribution/technical/default.htm

(2006 10 12)