Question: How do you become a Cataloging Hero?

Answer: Share your title records via ITS•MARC Contributed!

Metadata is the backbone of the catalog. Do you pride yourself on creating quality MARC records that ensure your resources are easily discoverable by your community? Would you like to share that hard work with other libraries? Would you like to participate in a cataloging community in order to discuss cataloging best practices? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then you are a Cataloging Hero and we would love to talk with you about becoming a part of our ITS•MARC Contributed community.

TLC partners with libraries who are willing to share their MARC title records with other libraries - to give them access to your enriched metadata. To facilitate this partnership, TLC will use our existing ITS•MARC infrastructure to make MARC title records more readily available to the entire ITS•MARC customer cohort. TLC can use the existing search and retrieve technology to make your MARC title records easily accessible to the broader cataloging community.

As an added bonus...

• TLC data specialists will provide an in-depth analysis of your sample recordset. You will receive a full report of the evaluation, and gain better insight into your metadata.

• Your library will also get one free subscription to ITS•MARC core each year that you contribute.

What does TLC do with your title records?
Prior to merging your records into the contributed data pool, TLC performs these pre-processing steps:

• Unenhanced title records that are duplicated in national library databases are removed.

• Minimal level MARC validation is performed. Title records failing this step are removed.

• A deeper, more rigorous MARC record analysis is performed to determine whether any remaining deficiencies can be corrected by machine processes.

• RDA-ify the records using RDAExpress.

By contributing your title records to the ITS•MARC contributed data set, you are joining other cataloging heroes to create a high-quality MARC title record repository. Become a part of this valuable community that is facilitating faster access to catalog new materials

Let us know you're ready to become a part of this valuable community by completing this short questionnaire: MARC Partners Release Form