The creation of a vendor neutral record for integrating resources was discussed at the joint BIBCO/CONSER Operations Meeting in May of last year, but nothing definitive was decided. See: http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/conop2005.html#13

Jim Latchney
Continuing Resource Cataloging & Reference Librarian
Michigan State University
100 Library
East Lansing, MI 48824-1048
(517) 432-6123 x317
(517) 353-8969 (fax)
http://www.lib.msu.edu/staff/latchney

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum on behalf of Chris Blackman
Sent: Mon 4/10/2006 3:12 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Again: Aggregator Neutral Records for Updating Databases?

Does anyone have information on this? Or should I assume that the OCLC
merger was a freak accident?

Chris

Christine W. Blackman
Catalog Librarian
Williams College Libraries
Williamstown, MA  01267
413-597-4403
cblackma@williams.edu

Chris Blackman wrote:

> Have aggregator [provider] neutral records been approved for updating
> databases?
> I was just about to create a new record in OCLC for Avery Index via
> EBSCO (believe it or not there wasn't already one -- oodles of the RLG
> version though), and found that another original record that I had
> created for EBSCO's version of ABSEES had been merged into what
> appears to be an aggregator neutral record (LCCN  2001562575, OCLC
> 47990419).
>
> Chris
>