MARC Records from GPO's Shelf List |
Written on Friday, 01 May 2009 Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 May 2009 |
LSCM staff have completed the processing of brief bibliographic records for 247 publications from GPO's historic shelf list. All the bibliographic metadata on the cards was transcribed and converted to MARC21. The metadata transcribed from the shelf list cards may be very minimal and no additional bibliographic metadata has been added to these records as GPO does not have the publications in hand. LSCM staff have added at least two access points for each converted shelf list card, including one high-level subject heading and one corporate name authority. Personal names and series information have been added only if that information was included on the shelf list card. The transcribed records are now available through the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). The Aleph system numbers for these records are no. 638329 through no. 638575. The records are also identifiable by the word "PTFS" in the 955 field of the MARC record display. Federal depository libraries are able to retrieve these records for their own use via Z39.50 or these records can also be viewed by searching the CGP. To retrieve the records directly from the CGP:
To retrieve the records using Z39.50 (depository libraries only): Users can search the Z39.50 using the YAZ client in two ways.
Users can also search the Z39.50 server using MarcEdit intwo ways.
Additional transcribed shelf list records will be added to the CGP as this project continues. |