Library		A Newsletter of the Oberlin College Library
	Perspectives
	Number 13, September 1995

The Oberlin College Library has been invited to participate in the Library of Congress-sponsored National Bibliographic Cooperative Cataloging Program (BIBCO). BIBCO is part of a multifaceted program among academic and research libraries that seeks to increase the availability of unique cataloging records and the cost effectiveness of creating them under mutually acceptable standards.

John Sluk, Head of the Monographs Department, will attend a BIBCO training seminar in September at the Library of Congress. John will in turn train catalogers at Oberlin as well as at least one other academic library. Oberlin is the only college library among the twelve libraries that has been invited to participate in this initial round of BIBCO instructor training.

The program will enable catalogers at Oberlin to contribute even more frequently to the national cooperative cataloging effort. The library's catalogers are already distinguished as being the only college library staff in the nation to participate directly in two other well-respected national efforts: NACO, the Name Authority Cooperative, and Enhance, the OCLC program to improve and enrich the world's largest bibliographic database.

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