Distinctive Features of UKM Copy:
Including Upgraded UKM

Introduction

This document lists some of the elements and features of UKM copy that are different from those of most OCLC records.  While we follow the standard “Full-Level OCLC-Member Editing Guidelines (Books Format)” in working with UKM copy, below are some features to be aware of, along with the appropriate treatment of each.

Background

UKM = UKMARC — records provided through the British Library, converted to USMARC and loaded by LC.  Most records are catalogued by the British Library (the national library); some by other British libraries.  (Increasingly, other British libraries do or will contribute independently to OCLC or PCC.)

British Library:

• Follows Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2) but not Library of Congress Rule Interpretations (LCRI).  Therefore, descriptive conventions may vary.

• Has done authority work from different database, and may have different information (e.g., middle names, dates); therefore choice of heading forms may vary.  Since 1996, the British Library has contributed authority records to the LC/NACO authority file, and heading discrepancies have been reduced, but they still exist.

• Does not use LCSH coded as LCSH, though it may provide the equivalent with 2nd indicator 4, “other” (i.e., not verified LC subject heading)

• Used to provide PRECIS subject access terms; in USMARC version of record, these are coded as 653.

• May put LC class number in record (050 4 $a), but not complete call number.

Other upgrading libraries may or may not change what the British Library has done in each area of the record.  (Note: Some British libraries other than the national British Library do provide complete LC call numbers and LCSH.)

Typical features:  problems and solutions:

Description		Subject cataloguing
Access points related to description		Other

Description

• 010:  In record, with “nb” prefix.

  Solution:      Ignore.

• 245:  Often no $c (similar to pre-ISBD records).

  Solution:      Can leave out as long as necessary 1xx is there, in correct form.

• 260:
  • 260 $a-$b often shows only 1 place of publication and publisher, the British.

    Solution:      Optional to add US place and publisher if on t.p.

  • 260 $a often gives only local British place, not larger jurisdiction (e.g., Stroud, not Stroud, Gloucestershire).

    Solution:      Leave as is unless you think that place name is really ambiguous, likely to be confused with a U.S. place of same name (e.g., Birmingham).

  • 260 $b often extremely truncated.

    Solution:      Leave as is unless really unclear.

• 300:
  • 300 $a often inaccurate, especially prelim. p.

    Solution:      Check carefully; correct when necessary.

  • 300 $b sometimes omitted

    Solution:      Add “ill.”

• 500:  Notes about edition history are provided for a wider range of situations than in DLC or many other OCLC records.

  Solution:      Leave notes in unless they are misleading.

Access points related to description

• 1xx, 7xx:
  • Heading forms in 1xx and 7xx are often not consistent with LC/NACO authority file (though less of a problem than formerly, since BL can now contribute to LC/NACO file).

    Solution:      Search LC/NACO file if heading looks suspicious (see also “Summary of Interim Procedures for OCLC-Member Copy Authority Work”).

  • Main vs added entry choice may vary from LCRI guidelines (e.g., conference may have main entry when it would have added entry following LCRI).

    Solution:      Accept as long as necessary heading is present either as 1xx or 7xx.

• 4xx, 8xx:  Series form and treatment are sometimes inconsistent with those in LC/NACO authority file.

  Solution:      Search LC/NACO file (which you would do, anyway; see also “Guidelines for Series Checking and Verification Procedures for non-DLC Copy Cataloguing”).

Subject cataloguing

• 600-651:  6xx headings with 2nd indicator 4 are usually present, even if another library has added duplicate 6xx with 2nd indicator 0; sometimes, only 6xx  4 may be present.

  Solution:

  Make sure that topic is accounted for in duplicate or different 6xx  0

        or

  Confirm that heading is the equivalent of a needed 6xx  0 and change 2nd indicator.

  Delete any remaining 6xx  4 from local record .

• 653:  PRECIS headings are often present (though less in recent copy).

  Solution:      Leave 653 in.

• 050:
  • UKM’s class no. choice, if followed by the upgrading library, not infrequently is more general than it should be.

    Solution:      Find a better, more specific class number.

  • If copy not upgraded, 050 incomplete, just $a class no.

    Solution:      Verify appropriateness of class no.; shelflist to provide $b portion of call number.

Other

• 886:  Field resulting from conversion from UKMARC to USMARC.  Present in many (not all) UKM records.

  Solution:      Can leave in.

HTML document last reviewed:  14 February 2000