Update 4 contains changes to the membership and governance structure of the CONSER Program, as approved by the CONSER Policy Committee at its November 1995 meeting.  It also contains application forms for various levels of CONSER participation.  In addition, many fields have been slightly revised to further accommodate format integration or catalogers' requests.  Also, 9XX fields used by the National Library of Canada have been deleted and converted into the 886 field which is newly added.

Field, etc.

Addition, Change, Deletion

A1

A:  University of Maryland added

A:  CIC and St. Louis added

A4

A:  New category, CONSER Enhance added

C:  Criteria for national and full level membership expanded and revised

C:  Definition of associate membership revised to include project-based membership

C:  Criteria for associate membership expanded and revised

A:  Definition of CONSER Enhance membership added

C:  Criteria for affiliate membership expanded and revised

A:  Phone number changed and email address added

A:  Reference to Appendix D added

C:  Roles revised; role of OCLC added

A:  Information about obtaining the CONSER-level log-on added

D:  Information about NACO training removed; all new members are expected to be NACO participants

A:  Footnote added

D:  Information regarding new NACO members deleted

C:  Information regarding accuracy review changed to reflect change in policy

A:  Instructions for CONSER Enhance added

A5

A:  Introductory paragraph added citing the CONSER home page

D:  Names of individuals have been deleted from A5 and are now given only on the home page

A:  Operations representative added to composition of Policy Committee

A:  Last sentence added to Membership

C:  Information on the chair and election of the chair-elect revised and expanded

A:  Paragraph added on communication with Operations Committee

A:  Chair-elect added

C:  Meeting structure revised

C:  Statement changed concerning informing Policy Committee

C:  Statement revised concerning activities under Membership

A:  CONSER Coordinator specified as chair.  Representative to Policy Committee added

A:  Responsibilities expanded

C:  CONSER Advisory Structure completely revised; "Councilors" changed to "Liaisons"; CONSER Consultant added

A:  CONSER meeting structure added

A7

A:  Information relating to partial-year subscriptions added

A:  Information relating to HTML version added

A8

A:  Article citation added

B2-B3

C:  "Record" changed to "Headings"

B6

A:  Form of material (006/00) added

C3

C:  Usage loosened

C12

C:  9XX changed to 886

Fixed Length Fields - General Information

C:  Order of chart changed to reflect OCLC mnemonic order

Form of composition

A:  Information relating to default code added

Format of music

A:  Information relating to default code added

Projection

A:  New codes added

Running time

A:  Information relating to default code added

Type of visual material

A:  Information relating to default code added

007 Fields - General Information

A:  "or Atlas" added

007 - Electronic resource

D:  Code h deleted

007 - Map or Atlas

C:  Name changed from "Map" to "Map or Atlas"

007 - Microform

A:  LC practice added

012

A:  Type of record added

A:  Information about non-print serials in NST added

050

A:  Last sentence added

A:  Further use and example added

C:  2nd example changed from "(n)" to "(w)"

Headings - General Information

C:  Instruction to add spaces after hyphen changed from 4 to a "single space"

510

D:  Sentence relating to Appendix G deleted

533

A:  006/06 added

A:  Instruction for use of angle brackets added

A:  Closing parenthesis added to example

535

A:  New field added

556

C:  Description of field loosened

A:  Example added

600

C:  Subfields $e and $k made repeatable

610

C:  Subfield $e made repeatable

611

C:  Subfield $k made repeatable

630

C:  Subfield $k made repeatable

650

D:  [Not applicable] deleted

651

D:  [Not applicable] deleted

655

A:  Subfields $b and $c added

765/767

C:  Subfield $r made repeatable

770/772

C:  Subfield $r made repeatable

773

D:  [Not applicable] deleted

775

C:  Subfield $r made repeatable

776

A:  Additional display constant added

777

D:  Example deleted

800

C:  Subfield $n moved back under Title portion (we promise not to move it again!!!)

856

A:  Subfield $w added

A:  Values for parity added

A:  Description of subfield $w added

Canadian Local Fields, 900,920, 921, 930, 940, 980-983, 990

D:  Fields deleted, replaced by Field 886

901

A:  Symbol added

Section F--TCont.

A:  Appendix D added

D:  (Interim method...) deleted

Appendix A

C:  Wording revised to remove aspect of a field not being applicable to serials; function of CEG added

D:  Column "Reason not included" deleted.  Most were labelled as "not applicable" or "not used" and this could be seen as too restrictive.

A:  Field 352 added

D:  Field 535 deleted as it has been added to the CEG

Appendix D

A:  New appendix containing application forms added

Appendix J

C:  "Topographical" changed to "Topographic"

Appendix N

C:  Record examples changed to reflect changes to the online

Index

C:  Index updated

See also:

Updates