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USER PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROGRAM FOR COOPERATIVE CATALOGING BIBCO CORE RECORD STANDARD A Pilot Study of the Core Bibliographic Record For Books Final Report

watchwords in the library world, perhaps nowhere so much as in the area of cataloging. Libraries nationwide have sought effective ways to reduce high cataloging costs while maintaining the quality of service to users. In 1994, the Library of Congress introduced the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Core Record Standard. The Core Record Standard is intended to reduce cataloging costs by increasing both the pool of available cataloging records and the speed of cataloging while ensuring an acceptable level of data quality. The program’s goal is to create a pool of records that can be used with a “minimum of intervention” 2 by libraries. However, the use of the Core Record Standard has been somewhat controversial in the library community. PCC Core records provide less information than full-level catalog records but more than minimal-level cataloging records. Core level cataloging has now become the standard level for Library of Congress records, which are frequently used by libraries without modification. This has led to the question of how well Core records meet the needs of users, particularly with respect to the sufficiency of bibliographic data. While research is underway to evaluate the effectiveness of Core Record Standard as a cost- and timesaving measure for library cataloging operations, there has been no study to date of its impact on catalog users. Core records have been developed for a number of formats. This pilot study’s focus is the ability of the Core Bibliographic Record standard for Books to meet the information needs of catalog users. When the term “Core” is used, it refers to the Core Bibliographic Record for Books.