1. ALA Midwinter/Chicago Cynthia M. Whitacre OCLC Hybrid Records Manager, WorldCat Quality & Partner Content Dept., WorldCat Quality Management Division, OCLC

2. So, here’s a Hybrid Record: a CD-RECORD Plays on turntables and CD Players Picture credit: http://piaptk.limi tedrun.com/prod ucts/535023-pre- order-cd-record- series-digital- analog-hybrid- discs

3. OCLC Hybrid Records: Why? New catalogers only need to learn one set of rules Consistency for the future Simplification of automated maintenance Making legacy records more useful Conforming to PCC Standards

4. OCLC is using the PCC Guidelines on Hybrid Bibliographic Records October 15, 2012 (Minor revisions February 25, 2013) This is guiding what is done to the BIB records in WorldCat

5. OCLC RDA Policy Statement  http://www.oclc.org/en-US/rda/new-policy.html

6. Examples: Spelling out Abbreviations in non-transcribed fields 300 1 v. (unpaged) : $b col. ill. ; $c 17 cm. becomes: 300 1 volume (unpaged) : $b color illustrations ; $c 17 cm 300 1 score (96 p.) : $b ill. (chiefly col.) ; $c 31 cm. + $e 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) becomes: 300 1 score (96 pages) : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 31 cm + $e 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

7. Adding 33X fields Book: 336 text $b txt $2 rdacontent 337 unmediated $b n $2 rdamedia 338 volume $b nc $2 rdacarrier DVD: 336 two-dimensional moving image $b tdi $2 rdacontent 337 video $b v $2 rdamedia 338 videodisc $b vd $2 rdacarrier

8. Other Changes Substituting the copyright symbol © where “c” appears in front of copyright dates Converting Latin abbreviations in 245, 260, etc. [S.l. : $b s.n] becomes: [Place of publication not identified : $b publisher not identified] Access points changed to RDA in accord with the NACO authority file

9. Systematic March through WorldCat OCLC WorldCat Quality Staff using a Connexion Client Macro are going through all the records in WorldCat to hybridize them. Hybridization is currently only being applied to English language of cataloging records Started with OCLC record #1 and now up to OCLC record #54250000 (as of earlier this week) Many additional improvements come with hybridizing the records

10. 040 DLC $b eng $c DLC $d OCL …. $d GBVCP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF 020 9781572730465 (hardcover) 020 9781572730472 (paper) 029 1 NLGGC $b 143066692 029 1 YDXCP $b 1209425 245 00 Remarkable women : $b perspectives on female talent development / $c [edited by] Karen D. Arnold, Kathleen D. Noble, Rena F. Subotnik. 260 Cresskill, N.J. : $b Hampton Press, $c c1996. 300 xxiii, 455 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 Perspectives on creativity Example Before:

11. 040 DLC $b eng $c DLC $d OCL … $d GBVCP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ 020 9781572730465 $q (hardcover) 020 9781572730472 $q (paper) 245 00 Remarkable women : $b perspectives on female talent development / $c [edited by] Karen D. Arnold, Kathleen D. Noble, Rena F. Subotnik. 260 Cresskill, N.J. : $b Hampton Press, $c ©1996. 300 xxiii, 455 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 336 text $b txt $2 rdacontent 337 unmediated $b n $2 rdamedia 338 volume $b nc $2 rdacarrier 490 1 Perspectives on creativity 029 1 NLGGC $b 143066692 029 1 YDXCP $b 1209425 Example After:

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13. Explore. Share. Magnify. Cynthia M. Whitacre Manager, WorldCat Quality whitacrc@oclc.org askqc@oclc.org rdapolicy@oclc.org