Chris:

Check out this information from the CONSER website:

http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/agg-neutral-recs.html

The OCLC merger was no freak accident.  Since 2003, CONSER practice has
been to create aggregator-neutral records that focus on the content of
the title and not the details of any particular aggregator.  There are
some records that have not been collapsed together yet (particularly
with MedLine and ERIC), but the conversion process is still in process
as a mix of automated and manual work is involved.

Chris Brady
Serials/E-Resources Catalog Librarian
Baylor University Libraries
One Bear Place #97151
Waco, TX 76798-7151
Tel: (254) 710-6680
Fax: (254) 710-3116
E-mail: C_Brady@baylor.edu (Note underscore: C_Brady)

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Blackman
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 2:13 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
>