PCC BIBCO at UF Report
October 2002-September 2003The UF participation in the BIBCO program continues to be substantial and some of our catalogers increased their contributions, but overall our statistics went down during this fiscal year. The monthly average for this year is 127, a significant reduction from the previous year average of 164. The relative numbers of core versus full rose again slightly for a total of 28% core this year. Our catalogers have been very involved in preparations to migrate to a new online catalog system, and it is expected that the overall drop in cataloging contributions is associated this competing priority. Unfortunately, since our implementation date has been delayed until May 2004, we will need to continue to focus on migration-related activities. The BIBCO-at-Large meeting at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia included an excellent presentation by Judy Kuhagen on changes in cataloging rules. Later the Powerpoint slides and notes from this presentation were made available online and Betsy Simpson, Priscilla Williams, Tatiana Barr and I used them to pass along this information on integrating resources and other recent rule changes to our staff. This seemed to be very helpful. I attended the BIBCO Operations Committee Meeting at LC in May and presented a preliminary report as chair of the PCC Task Group on SACO Program Development. It has now been nearly 5 years since UF’s initial training for BIBCO participation and there were several staff members who had joined us since that time, so I decided a supplementary training session was in order. In August I prepared and gave a powerpoint presentation on BIBCO as an introduction for the newer staff and an update for the rest. Ongoing coordination of the BIBCO at UF activities consists largely of monitoring messages on the PCC email discussion list to forward when relevant to the section, monthly counting and reporting to LC and to our staff of numbers of records contributed, and screening records for correct coding as they are counted. The record-editing process, which is performed regularly by all staff who do original monograph cataloging, provides good quality control. Copy Cataloging Unit staff continue to report that they utilize BIBCO records from other libraries as if they were DLC and move them quickly to the shelves. Our BIBCO participation continues provide a source of pride and satisfaction for our catalogers who are aware of the value of the contributions that we all make as BIBCO partners for the benefit of other libraries and for the public good.
Jimmie Lundgren
UF BIBCO CoordinatorReturn to UF and BIBCO homepage
Prepared by: Jimmie Lundgren
Last updated: October 4, 2003
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