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CANADIAN DOCUMENTS: PROCEDURES

The following procedures are being established for Canadian Documents which are housed in the Canadian Documents Collection in Lockwood. These procedures should facilitate the processing of this material.

  1. No material will be released with a brief record and an action date.

  2. Upon receipt, new serial titles including title changes, will be sent to the Serials Cataloging Section of the Cataloging Department with an OCLC record in BISON or a brief BISON record created by the Acquisitions Department.

  3. Monographs for which there is National Library of Canada or usable member copy will be completed by the Bibliographic Control Section of the Acquisitions Department.

  4. Monographs for which there is member copy which lacks subject headings will be integrated into the existing current monographic backlog and released and processed like other member copy
    Add: 730: :MEMBCOPY CAN YR MO

  5. For monographs for which there is no OCLC record, an in-process record will be created in BISON and the item will be integrated into the existing monographic backlog and released and processed like other no copy material.
    Add: 730: :NOCOPY CAN YR MO

  6. All in-process records in BISON will be coded 1, 2, or 3 I with a location code of lod and subfield k of CAN.

  7. No material which could otherwise be released or fully cataloged will be delayed because of a lack of Canadian documents classification number. When a number is not available on the item or in the OCLC record, a number will be assigned locally by the staff member who completes the record. A locally-assigned number should never be made part of an original input into OCLC, however.

    Last updated 8/18/95