1. 1 Content Creation Sue Duffy King’s Fund Information & Library Service

2. 2 Background King’s Fund - ‘an independent charitable foundation whose goal is to improve health especially in London’

3. 3 Library stock 35,000+ books 600+ journals –33,000 abstracts

4. 4 Library Users Staff Visitors External enquirers

5. 5 Content Creation Decision taken to create own records –large amount of grey literature –demand for immediate access to new publications –relatively small, specialised stock

6. 6 Format changes Dispensed with almost all MARC punctuation Changed the order of fields Created some new fields

7. 7 MARC punctuation |c260Publication information |v440Series |u / |z856Electronic access

8. 8 Order of fields 700Chairpersonafter 110 520Abstractafter 650

9. 9 700 field - Chairperson

10. 10 520 field - Abstract

11. 11 New fields created 246Variant title 652Geographical location 773Journal source

12. 12 Variant title 246 field added because many reports acquired colloquial titles which would not otherwise feature in a record. –e.g. The Alder Hey Report, The Wanless Report

13. 13 246 field - Variant title

14. 14 Journal Source Field 773 field - devised as a standard method of giving information about an abstracted article also placed out of numerical sequence in the record

15. 15 773 field - Journal source

16. 16 Content standards Cataloguing guidelines Authorities Quality control

17. 17 Cataloguing guidelines Written in house Updated with each system upgrade

18. 18 Authorities Use authorities only in 650 field Authority file is the downloaded HMIC thesaurus

19. 19 Quality control Monitored by Technical Services Librarian Proof read for Current Awareness Bulletin

20. 20 Recent changes Electronic links New item types for electronic formats –Webpubl –Website –E-Abstract