Access and distribution will be most timely if work is done directly online in the national utilities. Permitting work to be done in local systems will encourage program participation. Participating institutions will be able to leverage investments in local systems and catalogers' workstations which can be combined for maximum productivity. Some institutions will participate only if and when local systems can be the means of contributing records. FTP will be the best record exchange mechanism.
Tape is too unwieldy and slow to accomplish goals of timeliness.
Authority and bibliographic records will require separate FTP files. Its file is not the national database. Not all of LC's cataloging records qualify as program records. In a truly successful nccp program, LC's cataloging should be considered a subset, albeit a large subset, of the nccp program. Authority records Assumptions Current climate of discussions seems to be leading to the concept of exchanging authority records on an international level and to the creation of an International Anglo- American Authority File.