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<p class="MsoNormal">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
<a href="https://help.oclc.org/WorldCat/Metadata_Quality/AskQC/Previous_AskQC_office_hours" target="_blank">
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