[Evergreen-catalogers] Fwd: [OCLC-CAT] Level K records in WorldCat will be converted to standard MARC encoding levels

[Elaine Hardy]

OCLC's announcement about the changes to Encoding level (ELvl -- Leader/17)
to bring OCLC MARC in line with MARC21. I found the slides referenced in
the announcement helpful

J. Elaine Hardy, PINES and Collaborative Projects Manager
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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Whitacre,Cynthia <whitacrc at oclc.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 4:08 PM
Subject: [OCLC-CAT] Level K records in WorldCat will be converted to
standard MARC encoding levels
To: <OCLC-CAT at oclclists.org>


To further OCLC’s announced move to using standard MARC encoding levels
instead of the OCLC alphabetic encoding levels, OCLC will begin converting
Encoding Level K records in WorldCat in January to encoding levels blank,
7, or 3 as appropriate according to determinations of record fullness.
OCLC has been testing conversion criteria for a number of months.  The
conversion effort of the 25.9 million K level records currently in WorldCat
will be spread out over a number of months in 2021.  This effort will
provide us insight into the larger conversion effort of encoding level M
records in the future.



For further information on the rationale behind this change, please see the
June 2020 Virtual AskQC Office hours presentation slides, WebEx recordings
and Q&A, all available on the Previous AskQC Office Hours page.
<https://help.oclc.org/WorldCat/Metadata_Quality/AskQC/Previous_AskQC_office_hours>





Cynthia M. Whitacre

Senior Metadata Operations Manager

Metadata Quality

OCLC, Inc.

6565 Kilgour Place

Dublin, Ohio  43017

800-848-5878, ext. 6183

whitacrc at oclc.org



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