The British Library and SUNCAT Brenda Young The British Library Bibliographic Development
The British Library: a (very) short history n The British Library Act 1972 Combined: n British Museum library departments n National Central Library n National Lending Library for Science and Technology NCL & NLLST became the British Library Lending Division 2
The British Library: a (very) short history The following were added in 1974: n British National Bibliography n Office for Scientific and Technical Information Added later: n India Office Library and Records (1982) n British Institute of Recorded Sound (1984) See http: //www. bl. uk/about/history. html 3
MARC records Blaise (British Library Automated Information Service) established in 1977 n UKMARC i. e. British National Bibliography n LCMARC i. e. Library of Congress Books All BL catalogues added later n H&SS ( Humanities and Social Sciences - 1984) n SRIS (Science Reference and Information Service - 1987) n BLC (British Library Catalogue - 1988 -1991) n DSC Serials ( Document Supply Centre - 1995) Other databases which include serial records n BNB n ISSN (International Standared Serial Number) 4
Integrated Library System Aleph implemented 2004 All the BL’s records in a single catalogue for the first time One bibliographic record per title Integration of non-bibliographic records also required Long period of preparation preceded implementation 5
Problems with the data n Duplication of records n Varying quality n DSC serials n Converted to MARC from an in-house format n Very little data in the records n Included SRIS holdings n BLC n Keyboarded from printed catalogue n Lack of information and subfield coding n SRIS n BNB numbers, DDC and LCSH removed All made the matching and merging a very complex process 6
Migration to Aleph Main tasks n Standardise the bibliographic data n Convert the data to MARC 21 n Convert the data to UNICODE n Enhance the records by adding n ISSN n Key titles n Library of Congress Subject Headings n Dewey numbers Over 500, 000 records enhanced in this way 7
SUNCAT n A challenge! n An opportunity! 8
BL contribution to SUNCAT n Original dataset of 698, 137 records supplied n Supply monthly update files of records flagged as new, changed or deleted n Records are cleaned before submitting them i. e. all local and Aleph fields removed n Updates have now been loaded to SUNCAT 9
BL contribution to SUNCAT n Dedicated SUNCAT team working on enhancing records n 4 full-time equivalent staff; 2 full-time, 4 part-time n Based in Data Quality Team n Priority work on Inside titles n Work from list of titles on spreadsheet n On Aleph, merge duplicate records, copy records to be deleted to deletions library n Use external sources: COPAC, OCLC, ISSN Portal, SUNCAT n Retrieve items from collections when necessary n Have processed 23, 000 records representing 5, 000 titles n New and changed records also contributed by mainstream serials cataloguers 10
ISSN requests n We can only fulfill requests for ISSN for UK titles n We expect requesting library to make every effort to find out if an ISSN already exists n We need evidence of the publication; photocopies are acceptable n We need as much information as possible n Requests from SUNCAT contributors will be dealt with by the SUNCAT Team n Guidelines are to be posted on the SUNCAT web pages 11
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