Colleagues,
These upcoming June sessions have a focus on cataloging rare and archival materials and may be of interest to the catalogers among you! These sessions are open to anyone so please feel free to share broadly!
Please join OCLC for the OCLC Virtual AskQC Office Hours (VAOH) in June 2023. Presentation topic: Cataloging Rare Materials Defensively
Date: 6 June 2023
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT (UTC -4)
Register now
Virtual AskQC office hours
Date: 15 June 2023
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT (UTC -4)
Register now
Kate James and Jay Weitz will present the June 2023 Virtual AskQC Office Hours and on the topic: Cataloging Rare Materials Defensively.
Poet James Russell Lowell asked "And what is so rare as a day in June?/Then, if ever, come perfect days." Although we cannot promise perfection, we can offer two days in June 2023 for the contemplation of "Cataloging Rare Materials Defensively."
Join us on either Tuesday, June 6 at 10 AM (Eastern time) or Thursday, June 15 at 4 PM (Eastern time), whichever is more convenient for you, when Kate James and Jay Weitz will provide background about how OCLC's Duplicate Detection and Resolution (DDR) software deals with WorldCat bibliographic records created for rare and archival materials. You will learn hints about using MARC 21 and the instructions in RDA and AACR2 to the best advantage in making sure that DDR performs appropriately when encountering a record that is legitimately unique according to the descriptive conventions.
Note: presentation content is introduced in the first session of the month and repeated in the second session of the month.
Following each presentation, you will have the opportunity to ask questions about the VAOH topic or about any other WorldCat quality matter that comes to mind.
Topic and registration information is available for the remaining Office Hours through June 2023. Recordings, slides, and notes from previous office hours are available from the webpage for the Virtual AskQC Office Hours.
All Virtual AskQC Office Hours are available from OCLC at no charge.
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Merrilee Proffitt
Senior Manager
OCLC Research
Oakland CA
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