rallScope: The Library of Congress’s Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) requires its member libraries to submit periodic statistics for its constituent programs, NACO, BIBCO, CONSER and SACO. This document describes Cornell’s procedures for getting our statistics to LC.
Unit: CMS
Date last updated: April 2024
Date of next review: March 2025
OVERVIEW: THE PCC DIRECTORY
The PCC's guidelines for how to input our statistics into their website can be found here. The PCC Directory website is here. (Login information for the directory is in the LTS shared drive, along with the stats tracking spreadsheet.)
The PCC requires statistics to be submitted at least twice a year: by April 15 (for October to March statistics) and October 15 (for April to September statistics). The website is set up for statistics to be entered every month, but it is fine to consolidate months: for example, leave the boxes for October and November blank, and input statistics for October, November and December all together in the December box.
Cornell Library generally records statistics monthly.
Note: the PCC Directory website is arranged by the Library of Congress's fiscal year, which begins in October. Thus, statistics for the October/November/December period fall into the "fiscal year" that is one year later than the calendar year: October/November/December 2023 = Fiscal year 2024. Once you select the fiscal year, the months will be laid out by their correct calendar year.
NACO
Numbers from the OCLC statistics portal are also entered into an LTS spreadsheet available in the LTS - > "Batch_ Processing" folder, - > "BIBCO-NACO stats" file on the shared LTS X drive. LTS numbers are arrived at by subtracting Law and Music numbers from the total numbers. (Login information for the directory can also be found in this folder.)
The NACO coordinator e-mails any delete requests/BFM to LC (naco@loc.gov), along with any other problems that have come up. Catalogers should report any problems at the time they are found.
BIBCO
BIBCO statistics come from two places.
CONSER
CONSER statistics come from a spreadsheet the CONSER coordinator maintains. This spreadsheet also records the CONSER barcodes for use in the 010.
New authentications and updates to authenticated records are tracked here.
SACO
The NACO/SACO Coordinator keeps track of New LCSH proposals and New LCC proposals. Catalogers should notify the NACO/SACO Coordinator if they submit either of these types of proposals.