This memorandum is prepared by Magda El-Sherbini, Chair of the Cataloging Policy Board, and the working Group to Study Shared Bibliographic Records Standards. Now Acquisition and Cataloging need to use the same guidelines to determine when a new bibliographic record should be created. The National standards are outlined in the OCLC Bibliographic Input Standards and provide guidance in determining when to create new records. The number of MARC tagged provisional records will increase as OCLC downloading and PromptCat services become available.
Reproduction including photocopies justifies a new record.
Absence or presence of multiple publishers, distributors, etc. as long as one on the item matches one on the record. Variation in printing or distributing date alone. When past practice is in conflict with these standards, new bibliographic records will be built at the time a record has been handled for ordering, cataloging or re cataloging.