Responding to Paul Davey's comment and question concerning the use of field 264 in OCLC:
Field 264 was implemented in OCLC as part of the OCLC-MARC Update 2012 in May 2012. It is documented in OCLC Technical Bulletin 261 (http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/worldcat/tb/261/default.htm) until our documentation staff has a chance to add it to Bibliographic Formats and Standards, OCLC-MARC Records, and other relevant OCLC documents in coming months. The Documentation staff continues to be preoccupied with the implementation of a new content management system that has taken far longer than they expected, unfortunately. In June 2012, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging issued its "PCC Guidelines for the 264 field" (http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/264-Guidelines.doc); PCC participants creating RDA records began following those guidelines immediately and others are encouraged to follow them. Glenn E. Patton Director, WorldCat Quality Management OCLC 6565 Kilgour Place Dublin OH 43017-3395 Phone: +1.800.828.5878, ext. 6371 or +1.614.764.6371 Fax: +1.614.718.7187 Email: patt...@oclc.org <mailto:patt...@oclc.org> From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Paul Davey Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 10:17 AM To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: [RDA-L] Cross-training from AACR2 ro RDA This is to say I am very grateful for all the advice and useful links sent. I've looked at it all. Will I die of old age before I finish typing all the extra text necessary? Also (I am speaking as a UK cataloguer), I find it noteworthy that all the help I have been given comes from the US and Canada, What about the other contributing countries? ps 264 - I understand that OCLC allows it, but it's not in their bib format. Would it be right that I use 260 by default? Cheers Paul Davey
