Scope: This document combines statements of CUL policy for the handling of record sets for items that Cornell doesn’t “hold” (approved by Dean Krafft, Xin Li, and John Saylor in March 2013), as well as a recommendation from the CUL Theses & Dissertations Advisory Group in March 2015.
Contact: Jim LeBlanc
Unit: Senior Management Team
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Date of next review: [TBD]
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In order to ensure bibliographic access to all material in its collections, the Cornell University Library (CUL) creates permanent, openly accessible, online catalog records. These records are essential to CUL for the management of its resources, including theses and dissertations, and to library users as a means of discovering and identifying material of interest in the Cornell collection. To better manage and promote its collections, CUL shares its catalog records with other resource discovery services on a collection-wide basis and in conformance with a standard set of practices.
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