Have the delivery mechanisms, frequency, or content of the Librarys bibliographic products changed as a result of the Librarys ILS implementation?
Generally speaking, Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) delivery mechanisms and frequency of product distribution have not changed. In the future, CDS may identify improvements to their products based on the capabilities of our new system and will continue to give plenty of advance notice to their customers. The Library of Congress discontinued distribution of “in-process” records for books through the MARC Distribution Services (MDS) at the end of April, 2000. Beginning in May, 2000, current MDS subscribers for Books All, Books US, Books English, Books CJK, Books Arabic, and Books Hebrew stopped receiving in-process records, also known as “preliminary cataloging” or “encoding level 5 records”. Although the number of records distributed in an in-process state diminished over the last several years, their distribution was discontinued because of procedural changes and recent workflow adjustments in the Library’s allocation of cataloging resources. The change will not affect the ultima
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