BIBCO at the University of Florida
Oct. 2000-Sept. 2001
This was our second year of participation in the BIBCO program, so we had already worked it into our local system of priorities and procedures. We were ambitious in setting our annual goal at 2001 BIBCO records, but we expect to come close to that number. Some factors that have impacted our participation this year include the increased purchase of books without a corresponding increase in cataloging staff. While BIBCO CORE level offers time savings over Full level cataloging, its requirement of full authority support makes it more expensive for us than nonBIBCO K-level contribution without full authority support as we are permitted to do with items not high priority for us. Of our 1797 total BIBCO contributions in our July 2000-June 2001 fiscal year 455, or 25 percent were CORE records, an increase of 70 percent from last year.
Since our catalogers are now more experienced with BIBCO cataloging and our automated authority processing is very effective, emphasis on review of individual BIBCO bibliographic records was decreased as compared to last year. NACO contribution review, however, continues to be provided for each authority record (with the exception of those by one senior cataloger), and those designated as needed for BIBCO are fast-tracked. This means that the in-house review of NACO authorities supporting BIBCO records take priority in the review process, resulting in more timely authority support of BIBCO records. Priscilla Williams now shoulders the responsibility for name and series authority reviewing, and also travelled to the state capital this summer to train catalogers in our State Library in NACO participation. Daniel Cromwell continues to coordinate our SACO contributions.
One of our most productive BIBCO catalogers volunteered and was interviewed in the BIBCO Core Record Survey. The draft BIBCO manual was circulated among us and we find it very useful and greatly appreciate it's availablity.
Our Copy Cataloging Unit Head Daniel Cromwell said, "It is currently our policy to treat BIBCO records as if they are equivalent to LC records when they have a full LC call number and subject headings, they are placed on what we call the Quick or Quick Quick ... From time to time we place some books with BIBCO records on our <difficult shared> shelf because of certain deficiencies in the records such as lack of call numbers or other things like that. There are also some Encoding Level problems where the record is BIBCO but the Elv is "I" or the call number is entered in an "090" field. We treat these as <difficult shared> a lot of the time just because of our lack of confidence in whether these records are truly BIBCO. Overall plus or minus 90% of the BIBCO items can be treated as Quick or Quick Quick and cataloged with the least amount of scrutinization by lowest level of staff, i.e. equivalent to LC cataloging."
The BIBCO Coordinator served on the BIBCO Operations Committee and attended meetings at LC in May. These were very helpful in comparing notes with other librarians from BIBCO libraries and working towards understanding and implementation of changes in rules such as integrating resources.
On the whole, we at UF continue to be very committed to participation in the collaborative efforts represented by BIBCO as well as SACO and NACO programs, and we appreciate the contributions of other libraries, most especially the Library of Congress
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Prepared by: Jimmie Lundgren
Last updated: October 4, 2003
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