Creating Core Records for Federal Documents: Does It Make a Difference?

Lange, Holley R.

doi:10.1300/j104v26n03_09

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“…The experiment underscored the efficiency and productivity of cataloging using the core standard. Cataloging statistics at Colorado State University over several years indicated that the use of the Books Core to catalog government publications primarily in the backlog was successful in making a greater number of books accessible more quickly than before the core standard was used (Lange 1998). Two recent studies explore the sufficiency of the core record.…”

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Use and Perception of the DCRB Core Standard

Lundy¹

2003

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B ibliographic control of rare book collections has always been a time-consuming and specialized process. The materials in special collections are there for particular and compelling reasons. Catalogers of such collections have traditionally identified those special attributes in catalog records with full-level bibliographic description, extensive notes, and as many access points as are deemed appropriate by both catalogers and curators. The new edition will include rules for the various formats of materials. The documentation for books will be known as DCRM(B). While the current standard of DCRB is written primarily for books printed before 1801, it can be used for post-1800 imprints as well.The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) has defined and approved core standards for many of the bibliographic formats, beginning with the stan-

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confidence: 99%