Date:Mon, 7 May 2007 17:06:31 -0400
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Sender:Announcements from the Federal Depository Library Program
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Subject:CONSER Standard Record for Serials
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Library Services & Content Management (LSCM) staff members attended the
Library of Congress, Program for Cooperative Cataloging meetings held at
the Library of Congress the week of May 1.
At the CONSER (Cooperative Online Serials) meeting, a date of June 1,
2007 was announced as the implementation date for the new CONSER
standard record for serials. As announced in previous FDLP Listserv
messages, LSCM planned to implement the use of the standard record in
accordance with CONSER recommendations. Bibliographic Control staff
will receive some additional training on the new record requirements and
will begin using the new record standards on June 1. LSCM received
several comments from the community and will be slightly modifying the
MARC 300 field treatment for electronic resources serials to accommodate
the needs of the documents community. Please check the GPO Cataloging
Guidelines, April 2007 revision at:
<http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/cip/cataloging-revision-ap07.pdf
> for further explanation. Congressional and essential titles that are
serials will continue to receive full-level cataloging. All new
serials, except in those two categories will be cataloged under new
CONSER standards. Existing serial records will not be downgraded.
You can expect to see cataloging records for serials in this new format
in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
(<http://catalog.gpo.gov>) on June 1.
If you have questions or comments, please use the GPO online help
Service at: <http://www.gpoaccess.gov/help>.
To ensure that your question is routed to the correct area, please
Choose the category "Federal Depository Libraries" and the appropriate
subcategory, if any. You may also contact the GPO Customer Contact
Center at 866-512-1800 (Toll-free), or at 202-512-1800 (DC Metropolitan
Area), Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., EST.
GPO Customer Contact Center
