This feature will be reviewed at the March AAC meeting. The recommended guidelines prepared by the OWLS, NFLS and APL directors were distributed. Terry Dawson explained that these are dynamic guidelines that are subject to change. This document provides a reasonable starting point for this topic. Item barcodes will be ordered quarterly because Computype will no longer accept barcode orders for less than 5,000.
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Patrons need to be educated to look at the full record to determine video format. Cataloging rules will allow only videorecording in the title field. If you have a web site for your library on the OWLS servers, year-end statistics on your web site are available. Glenice and Mark have a better understanding of statistics and can also provide information. In NEWCat the pickup point defaults to the patron's home agency.