Please reply to the address for Willy Cromwell, cited below; not
to SERIALST.  Thanks.  --ed.

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Dear Colleague:

On behalf of the Task Group charged by the Cooperative Cataloging
Council with recommending the catalog record standard to be
endorsed by a national cooperative cataloging program, I would like
to ask your assistance.  The members of the Task Group have, with
the help of the CONSER Core Elements Task Force, developed the
following survey which is intended to help us determine what that
catalog record should look like for both serials and monographs.  In
this effort we are concerned with identifying the data elements that
the library community judges to be essential in the shared record as
well as with how the program could make contributing to a national
cooperative effort easier.

The Survey questions involve your response to the following sketch
of a "core" bibliographic record which mandates ONLY the applicable
data elements listed below.  You will note that there would not
necessarily be notes to justify added entries and that the physical
description and number of subject headings and added entries could
be more limited than at present.  We are assuming:  (1)  although
fields would be constructed according to AACR2 revised, the record
that is described falls short of AACR2 level three cataloging; (2)
that each access point would be controlled by a national authority
file record or would be authorized by subject cataloging rules.
Another task force is studying the form and content of authority
records to be contributed by cooperative cataloging program
participants.

We have proposed a core record specifying elements for books and,
working in conjunction with the CONSER  Core Elements Task Force,
serials.  It is proposed that only those data elements appropriate to
each type of material be used in a catalog record. If consensus on
such an integrated set of data elements proves likely, it is assumed
that essential data elments specific to non-book formats could be
added.

Please send your responses to me via e-mail or surface mail prior to
August 31 so that the task group will be able to include your
response in our analysis.  Send responses to:

E-mail:  (Bitnet)    cn.wic@stanford.bitnet
         (Internet)  cn.wic@forsythe.stanford.edu

Surface mail:    Willy Cromwell, Principal Cataloger
                 Catalog Dept., Stanford University Libraries
                 Stanford, California   94305-6004

We also welcome any general commments you may wish to offer in
addition to the answers to the specific survey questions.

Thank you,
Willy Comwell, Chair,
Cooperative Cataloging Council Task Group on Standards
Members:  Karen Smith-Yoshimura (RLG)
          Kay Guiles and Lynn El-Hoshy (Library of Congress)
          Roxanne Sellberg (Suzallo Library, Univ. of Washington)
          Margaret Shen (Cleveland Public Library)

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Part 1.  CORE RECORD

Fixed Field values:
     Leader & Directory:  06-07 (bibl. type & level);  17 (encoding
            level); 18 (desc. cat. form)
      007 values for microformats
      008:  06 (date type); 07-14 (dates); 15-17 (Country of pub.);
            19 (frequency)*; 35-37 (language); 39 (cataloging source
            code)
020, $a (ISBN):  If present on item
022 (ISSN)*:  If present on item
040 (Cataloging source)
050 $a,$b (LC Classification)
1XX (main entry):  If applicable
240 (uniform title):  If applicable and readily available
245, $a (title proper)
        $b (other title information): If applicable
        $c (statement of responsibility):  If applicable
        $n (number):  If applicable
        $p (name of part):  If applicable
        $h (medium designator):  If applicable
246 (varying form of title)*:  If applicable
250, $a (edition statement):  If applicable
260, $a $b $c
362 (dates/designation)*:  If applicable
300, $a
4XX $a $v: (Series statement and numerical designation)
533:  (Reproduction note):  Include for photocopies and
     microformats
6XX:   at least ONE Library of Congress subject heading if
     applicable
780 (preceding entry)*:  If applicable
785 (succeeding entry)*:  If applicable
7XX:  at least ONE added entry (other than 780, 785) if applicable
8XX:  Established series form if different from that in 4XX

*  Starred elements were added at the request of the CONSER Core
Elements Task Force although some may be appropriately used in
cataloging monographs after the implementation of format
integration (i.e., the 246 field).

Part 2.  SURVEY

1.  Would your library accept copy with the above data elements
without augmentation or other substantive editing?

    YES__________

    NO__________

1.A.  If not, what fields would you add?  Or delete?  (Specify which)

2.  Would your library commit to do original cataloging with at least
the minimum of data elements as applicable as as specified above?

     YES______________

     NO_______________

2. A.  If not, why not?

3.  Would your library be willing to support the access points of the
above record with the requisite national level authority work--
bearing in mind that there is a parallel exploration of ways to make
such authority work easier?

     YES______________

     NO_______________

3. A.  If not, why not?

4.   Would the availability of a standard level of cataloging drawn
from the elements specified above contribute to the effectiveness
of your cataloging operation?

     YES_______________

     NO________________

4.A  Why or why not?

5.  What is the approximate number of new acquisitions at your
institution each year?_____________

6.  What is the approximate number of titles done as original
cataloging at your institution each year?________________

7.  Respondent:  NAME:__________________________

                 TITLE:__________________________

                 INSTITUITION:______________________

8.  This survey has been posted to several lists.  Please indicate
which list you got the survey from__________________________

To:  COOPCAT@NERVM