Abstract

This article outlines a highly collaborative effort among the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí (BNJM), the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries, and OCLC to open the Cuban national library's collections to researchers around the world. WorldCat now lists over 134,000 catalog records with BNJM's holdings attached. Many of these records required the creation of original MARC records based on images from scanned catalog cards. An overview of the project is followed by a discussion of the cataloging-related processes involved, and a brief analysis of the ongoing work. This effort has opened previously unknown collections to researchers outside of Cuba, and will have a major impact on Cuba-related research well into the future.

摘要

本文概述了古巴国家图书馆何塞·马蒂（BNJM），佛罗里达大学的乔治·A·斯马瑟斯图书馆和OCLC之间的高度合作，以向世界各地的研究人员开放古巴国家图书馆的馆藏。现在，WorldCat列出了134,000多个目录记录，并附带了BNJM的馆藏。这些记录中的许多记录都需要基于扫描的目录卡中的图像创建原始MARC记录。在对该项目进行概述之后，将对涉及的与编录相关的过程进行讨论，并对正在进行的工作进行简要分析。这项工作已向古巴境外的研究人员开放了以前未知的馆藏，并将在未来对古巴相关的研究产生重大影响。