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MDS Technical Notices

June 10, 2008 - New Character Sets in MDS-Books
May 12, 2008 - Non-Latin Data in Name Authority Records
April 11, 2008 - Availability of 2007 Retrospective Files for Distribution to MDS Customers
February 19, 2008 - Distribution of Subject Authority Records for Validation Purposes
February 14, 2008 - Name Authority Record Cleanup Projects
November 19, 2007 - New Character Sets in MDS-Maps, MDS-Music, MDS-Visual Materials, and MDS-Computer Files
September 27, 2007 - Regarding Pricing on Bulk Access to Copyright Cataloging Information
September 11, 2007 - Problem with Extended Arabic Characters
July 9, 2007 - Distribution of Integrating Resource Records in MDS-Serials
June 21, 2007 - Change in Practice for Spacing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Language Bibliographic Records
May 25, 2007 - Distribution of Subject Authority Records for Validation Purposes
April 23, 2007 - Genre/Form Subject Authority Records (155) in MDS-Subject Authorities
April 20, 2007 - Increase in Encoding Level from Prepublication Status No Longer Available
January 30, 2007 - Conversion of CONSER Encoding Level 4 Records
January 18, 2007 - Recent Problems with CDS MARC Distribution
November 17, 2006 - Discontinuance of MDS-NUCMC
November 9, 2006 - Discontinuance of MDS-HLAS
November 1, 2006 - Discontinuance of the CDS Alert Service
November 1, 2006 - Merging of MDS-Books Arabic with MDS-Books All
November 1, 2006 - Merging of MDS-Books CJK with MDS-Books All
November 1, 2006 - Merging of MDS-Books Hebrew with MDS-Books All
November 1, 2006 - MDS-Books All to Contain JACKPHY Records
July 17, 2006 - Changes to Copyright Records
May 31, 2006 - New Character Sets in MDS-Serials Records
April 24, 2006 - MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
March 16, 2006 - Coding Corrections in Subject Subdivision Records
February 6, 2006 - Name Authority Records Enhanced with Geographic Data
October 25, 2005 - LC ILS Upgrade Impact on MDS
October 12, 2005 - MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
April 25, 2005 - Transition of MARC Distribution Service for GPO Cataloging Records from LC/CDS to GPO
March 10, 2005 - Distribution of "OCLC Replacement Records": A Subset of PREMARC Records
January 18, 2005 - Machine-generated Contents Notes
November 23, 2004 - Large Number of Records in MDS-Visual Materials
July 22, 2004 - MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
June 23, 2004 - LC Plan to Accommodate 13-Digit ISBN
May 18, 2004 - Large Number of Records in MDS-Serials (CONSER)
October 1, 2003 - Summaries for Nonfiction Juvenile Titles Suspended Indefinitely
September 9, 2003 - New Methods of Updating former Subject Headinsg Results in Larger Number of Records
April 28, 2003 - Field 017 No Longer Supplied for Maps Records
February 25, 2003 - Records for Copyright Paperback Collection
February 19, 2003 - MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
February 5, 2003 - MARCXML Test Files Now Available
December 2, 2002 - Large Number of Records in MDS-Visual Materials
November 18, 2002 - Field 072 No Longer Supplied for Maps Records
November 8, 2002 - Changes in MDS Effective January 2003
August 1, 2002 - Project to Include Links to Table of Contents and Publishers' Descriptions for Books Records
June 13, 2002 - MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
April 11, 2002 - More Records in MDS -- Visual Materials
March 26, 2002 - Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources and Description Conventions
March 12, 2002 - Additions to the MARC Code List for Languages
January 15, 2002 - LC ILS Upgrade Impact on MDS
December 1, 2001 - Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions
November 27, 2001- New MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic Records
November 20, 2001 - Subject Headings that Include the Term Handicapped
November 20, 2001 - Name Authority Records with Field 053 Indicator Values
October 25, 2001 - LC Emergency Shutdown Impact
October 9 , 2001 - CDS to Cease MDS Tapes and Cartridges in Favor of FTP
September 27, 2001 - Additions to the MARC Code List for Geographic Areas
May 22, 2001 - New MARC 21 Data Elements in LC Bibliographic and Authority Records
April 13, 2001 - Converted Pinyin Name Authority Records Available
March 27, 2001 - CONSER Publication Pattern Records
March 13, 2001 - Converted Pinyin Bibliographic Records Distributed via MDS-Books
March 9, 2001 - MDS-Canada Encoding Level '3' Records
February 6, 2001 - Special Project for Subject Authority Subdivision Records
December 19, 2000 - Improved MDS File Names
December 6, 2000 - African American Subject Headings
December 5, 2000 - First of the Converted Pinyin Bibliographic Records Distributed
November 1, 2000 - Changes in MARC Distribution Services - Effective January 2001
September 25, 2000 - Changes to MDS Services Regarding Records for Electronic Resources
August 24, 2000 - Subject Authority Special Project Underway
March 1998 - Additions to MARC Authority Records Distributed through the MARC Distribution Service.

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