I’m with Kevin on this. If it is not coded as 042 pcc, it is not an official BIBCO record. Doesn’t mean it isn’t a good record and it doesn’t mean that all non-pcc records are bad records.  I _do_ evaluate the quality of a record by its 042 code and will instruct any paraprofessional working for me to do the same.

 

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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Yang Wang
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I would argue, a BIBCO record is a record contributed by a BIBCO participant (including LC) to the international database, the description of which is done fully according to the BRS rules. Whether it is authenticated or not is an entirely different matter. Most BIBCO catalogers can tell often right away whether a bib record is up to the current BRS rules or not. There’s no need to look at 042. In the real world of cataloging, we are not evaluating the quality of a record by looking at its “code,” but by the current RDA/LC/PCC standard according to which a resource is analyzed and cataloged.

 

If, as you pointed out, “a BIBCO record, is by definition, a PCC record,” then, would not “a PCC-BIBCO record” (as in “"Yes. For all records they contribute as PCC BIBCO records”) sound redundant to you? Would not “if authenticating” appear entirely unnecessary in a document that spells out what a BIBCO record is? And again, there’s the phrase “non-BIBCO records” cataloged according to “other rules” (mentioned earlier in the thread, as part of the BIBCO FAQs). Do you take it to mean simply “non-PCC records”?

 

Yang

 

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A BIBCO record is, by definition, a PCC record. A BIBCO record is a record that has been authenticated by a participating BIBCO institution and contains an authentication code in field 042.

 

Records that follow the BIBCO guidelines but are not authenticated, are not BIBCO records. Since there is no way to tell whether a non-authenticated record has been described following the BIBCO guidelines, wihout evaluating every element in it, I can't think of any utility for the concept of a "non-PCC BIBCO record".

 

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From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Yang Wang
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:12 AM
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Richard wrote: “BIBCO participants are free to create some records according to BIBCO rules and other non-BIBCO records according to other rules" (my emphasis).”

 

There are PCC BIBCO records and then, for lacking a better term, “non-PCC” BIBCO records, both being created according to the current BIBCO rules. I don’t know exactly how non-BIBCO records are handled by participating BIBCO institutions. Each according to its needs, I would assume, and it would be done as an exception rather than as a rule. Certainly I don’t expect to see AACR2 among such “other rules”—continually used in brand new bibliographic records or routinely accepted by BIBCO participants.   

 

Yang

 

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lammert, Richard
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:55 AM
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Yang Wang <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

One would think that when BIBCO participating institutions create a new bibliographic record or update an existing one, they are expected to follow the BIBCO standard, whether they want to authenticate it or not (by coding it pcc in 042). 

 

This is not, however, what the FAQs on the PCC site state (https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibco/faq-cataloging.html):

"2. Is it true that all BIBCO cataloging must follow the LC-PCC Policy Statements for RDA?

"Yes. For all records they contribute as PCC BIBCO records, the members agree to follow documentation that is listed in the BIBCO Program Parameters, including the RDA Toolkit and related LC-PCC PSs. BIBCO participants are free to create some records according to BIBCO rules and other non-BIBCO records according to other rules" (my emphasis).

 

According to this FAQ, BIBCO libraries may contribute non-BIBCO records, as long as they are not indicated as BIBCO records (that is, 042 of pcc). Such records can follow any rules (and, by extension, any--or no--amount of authentication).

 

Richard

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