CURRICULUM PROBLEM MATERIAL

Last edited: May 8, 1989, rev November 1992

RE: how to handle curriculum materials that are brought to our attention by circ slips or curriculum department projects.

Material from curriculum that already exists but needs a bibliographic record (circ slips, shelf holdings problems, etc.) will be handled in the following manner

1. . A cursory search of OCLC will be done.

2. If copy is found that matches very closely the piece, the record will be edited to fit our cataloging requirements. The record will be sent from OCLC to CLSI.

3. If good copy is not found, an original workform will be entered into CLSI based either on OCLC copy or on the information from the shelf list or the piece itself, or both.

4. Subject headings would be determined by :
   • authorized headings from related copy.
   • equivalent authoritized headings based on subject headings found on shelf list card.
   • If no headings are available from shelf list or related OCLC record, standardized headings for standard material should be used (a standard math subject heading for math texts, for example.
   • If the material is of a more specific or esoteric subject matter, the material will be referred to Marcy for the creation of one subject heading.

5. If the piece requires extensive checking and sorting through in order to determine just what set it belongs to, or to determine how it should be better arranged and cataloged, this material will be referred to Curriculum.

6. For circ slips which cannot be reconciled with any of our records, a short record will be entered using whatever information is on the circ slip, and a hold will be placed on the barcode(s) in order to examine the material when it is returned to the library. When the material is returned handle it following the above guidelines.