Exploring the Impact of Including Multi-Script Records in the Cornell University Library Catalog

McCarty, Apikanya; Purcell, Lois; Rich, Cynthia; Sercan, Cecilia

Exploring the Impact of Including Multi-Script Records in the Cornell University Library Catalog

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MultiScriptsReport05_2012 (2).docx (33.21 KB)

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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/34470

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Author

McCarty, Apikanya

Purcell, Lois

Rich, Cynthia

Sercan, Cecilia

Abstract

Request for Participation:

The LTS Senior Management Team appointed an ad hoc group of four LTS staff members to investigate the impact of using vernacular text in MARC records for all languages we catalog at CUL. Our practice has been to include original scripts for materials in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages only, and have recently begun to include Thai script as well. We currently strip vernacular text from records we import from OCLC WorldCat in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, and several Indic and Cyrillic language scripts.

Sponsorship

Library Technical Services Senior Management team

Date Issued

2012-05

Keywords

Multi-script records

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Cornell University Library

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Exploring the Impact of Including Multi-Script Records in the Cornell University Library Catalog: McCarty, Purcell, Rich, Sercan

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report