Table of Contents

1. Introduction Rebecca L. Mugridge Case Studies 2. Program for Cooperative Cataloging: The Indiana Experience Mechael D. Charbonneau 3. Many Fingers in the Pie: Improving Master Records in the OCLC Database: The Enhance Program Ann Copeland and Robert Freeborn 4. The Road to CONSER—Taken by the Health Sciences Library System, University of Pittsburgh Liping Song 5. Doing More with More: The UC CONSER Funnel Experience Valerie Bross 6. Record Authentication as a Barrier: Reflections on Returning to CONSER Christopher H. Walker 7. The End of the Line?: A Case Study of a Cataloging Department Achieving BIBCO Status Paige Andrew Out of the Mainstream 8. The ISSN Network as an Example of International Cooperative Cataloging Regina Romano Reynolds 9. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) Anthony Gonzales Research Studies 10. The SACO Program in the Lives of Our Institutions David Miller 11. Program for Cooperative Cataloging: BIBCO Records: Analysis of Quality Magda El-Sherbini Opinion 12. Cooperative Cataloging in a Post-OPAC World Roxanne Sellberg 13. Cooperative Cataloging at the Intersection of Tradition and Transformation: Possible Futures for the Program for Cooperative Cataloging David Banush 14. The Future of Cooperative Cataloging: Curve, Fork, or Impasse? Joan E. Schuitema 15. OCLC WorldCat as a Cooperative Catalog Amy H. Turner

About the Author

Rebecca L. Mugridge is Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services at Pennsylvania State University, and has held positions at Yale University, Robert Morris University and the University of Pittsburgh. She has a BA from Penn State, an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MBA from Robert Morris University.