Japanese Vendor Cataloging: Yale's caseOCLC User Group MeetingAAS/CEAL 2007 Annual Meeting in Boston, MAMarch 24, 2007

Keiko Suzuki 鈴木啓子Japanese Catalog Librarian

East Asia Library, Yale University Library

Project Outline 2005/2006 Pilot Project

Scope: About 200 titles of original cataloging & shelf-ready for single-part monographs

Fall 2005 … Started to discuss specifics Winter/Spring 2006 … Tested about

40 records Summer 2006 … Main production with

spot check Fall 2006 … Concluded with 241 titles

Target profile New materials purchased through Kinokuniya

EXCLUDING:

Reference Rush order Folio size Materials by/about single artist (Yale’s local practice) Multi-part monographs Serials Non-book English language Materials with matching full/core-level OCLC records

In Yale’s case, about 60% has copy in OCLC

Original & WINE upgrade

Within OCLC no-hit titles, Original 40% vs WINE upgrade 60% (Yale’s case)

Specific guidelines for editing WINE records

Enhance authorization issue Using Online Save File

Yale’s issues on vendor cataloging

Loading records Shipping period Call number labels & other shelf-ready services Authority work about 70 authority records created by Yale Subject analysis Communication! Coordination!? Complication?? Capital T is for “Tricky”: “Tokyo” incident

Now + Copycat & New Procedures

2007 Project A new project underway including some

copy cataloging (LC/Kinokuniya-created records)ratio of the other members’ records?(“RLIN libraries effect”)

Try “email file transfer” for all records (not using online save file)

With or without shelf-ready services?

Questions?

Kinokuniya contact:Mr. Daikichi Mitake

mitake@kinokuniya.co.jp Mr. Eiji Matsuoka

matsuoka@kinokuniya.comMr. Morimoto Kazuhiro

morimoto@kinokuniya.co.jp

Please send questions/comments to: Keiko Suzuki

keiko.suzuki@yale.edu