Donor bookplates and Parallel Records
Betsy Simpson sent out an announcement about the procedures for electronic bookplating of items. There has been a macro created to make these bookplates easily, which although it seems daunting at first, I quickly realized how much time and effort it saves. The macro can be accessed from the F10 suite of macros under the heading, the third option from the top, “donations”. It requires you to be in split editor mode with the BIB record on the left and the HOL on the right. Give it a try! I promise it is easier than it looks or sounds. the guidelines can be found at: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/alephpro/catmet/donorguide.html
Nancy Poehlmann has updated the parallel record guidelines also. The crux of the change is that foreign language vendor records used to be fair game for us to upgrade, but now they should be treated like foreign language library records. So, if an Italian vendor creates a German language record for an item, treat it as if it were a German language record with the appropriate 936 field. The updated guidelines can be found at: http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/alephpro/catmet/foreigncat.htm
