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OCLC Bibliographic Notification Service

OCLC Bibliographic Record Notification assists in catalog maintenance by automatically delivering updated MARC records to your library that have been updated or upgraded due to such things as contents field being added, or level of cataloging upgraded.

The Bibliographic Record Notification Service compares all upgraded OCLC MARC records to the records your library has holdings attached to each day, and then sends you upgraded records based on a detailed profile that tells OCLC for what updates you would like records. Records are delivered to you via Electronic Data Exchange (EDX) or you can download them from the OCLC Product Services Web. Institutions then load the upgraded records into local systems. Reports summarizing the type of upgrades and quantity of records being delivered are also available.

As part of your Bibliographic Record Notification profile, you choose to receive up to three main MARC record upgrades:

• OCLC-MARC records that have been upgraded from minimal-level to full-level cataloging.
• OCLC-MARC records in which the 505 field, Table of Contents, has been added, enhanced or deleted in WorldCat.
• OCLC-MARC records in which the 856 field (Electronic Location and Access subfields ‡u or ‡z) has been added, changed or deleted in WorldCat.

Features

• Limit the type of records received by format, encoding level and publication date (for instance, receive only those records that are upgraded from Encoding Level 8 in Books (BKS) format from 1990 forward).
• Exclude delivery of records your library upgrades.
• Have the call number field moved to another location in the MARC record to assure that the record does not overwrite your locally assigned call number.
• Add a local note to your upgraded OCLC-MARC record.