588 Field: Source of Description Note

Now available on the CONSER website, information on the new source of description note:

• Draft instructions for the MARC 588 field (pages from the CONSER Editing Guide)
• PowerPoint slides from a recent webinar
  
• Archived webinar
  

CONSER Operations Representatives Meeting

Outcomes and Action Items from the CONSER Operations Representatives Meeting, held May 6-7, 2010, have now been posted on the CONSER website. Topics covered include:

• ISBD punctuation
• Implementation of new MARC coding
• Multiple character set guidelines
• Open Access Project Task Group report
• Lack of one-to-one correspondence between print and online versions due to changes in title change rules
• Linking field issues
• Changes to uniform titles
• RDA testing
• ISSN-L
• And more!