Glossary of Selected Collection Services Terms

Cataloging & Metadata Services Terms for Statistics

Original: Cataloging for which no copy is available. Cataloging is created with or without the use of related copy.
Adjustment: Cataloging for which copy is available that requires review or modifications to meet local standards. Modifications may involve research, analysis, or interpretation and follow locally defined guidelines.
Recatalog: Previously cataloged items requiring a substantial upgrading or ehancement of the bibliographic record, or previously cataloged items requiring a new cataloging treatment (ex: monographs recataloged as serals).
Reclass: Previously cataloged items requiring a new classification number.
Transfer: Previously cataloged items requiring a new location code.
Classify: New items for which Cataloging and Metadata Services assings the LC classification number and passes on to another department for cataloging.
Holdings Added: Previously cataloged items requiring the addition of a new item record (added copies and/or volumes), or modifications to holdings statements in existing item records. Count each bibliographic record involved as one "Holdings Added", not each item record.
Title Change (Serials only): Current serial titles which have changed titles and which require the creation of an additional bibliographic record.
Close Out (Serials only): Serial titles which have ceased.

Replacement: An item has been lost and is being replaced with an exact duplicte. The catalog records, still extant, are not touched.
To-replace: An item has been lost and is being replaced with a different edition. New catalog records are created.