[Mcls-print-storage] MARC 583 and Monographs

[Rick Lugg]

Hello all,

Here is Constance Malpas's take on the application of the MARC 583 pilot to books, prompted by a question from the Maine Shared Collection folks. Note that her ideas about automation are only speculative at this point, however.



"Although the pilot project focused on print journals, we did consider how the 583/LHR approach might scale to books. In some respects, implementation for the monographic literature should be somewhat easier since the likelihood of split journal runs subject to different retention commitments at a single institutions will be lower. (The overhead of cataloging split and partial runs to provide an accurate view of what is and isn't archived can be substantial.)

 One can imagine that cloning an item record from an existing bibliographic record and automating the application of a 583 retention statement would be somewhat easier for print books. Automated production or enhancement could theoretically be managed by bibliographic utilities or ILS vendors -- and as an increasing number of vendors develop cloud-based, hosted collection management solutions one might imagine that this would be offered up as a data service. I'm just speculating, of course.

In short, the project team believes the 583/LHR approach is equally applicable to books or serials.  Drilling down to the item level is appropriate in each case, since retention applies to the physical holding and not the bibliographic entity."

Constance