ITR/IM: Creating a Latin American Union Catalogue and Bibliography to 1850

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The Center for Bibliographical Studies at the University of California, Riverside, is creating a union catalog of Latin American imprints to 1851. Existing printed bibliographies are for the most part old and incomplete or non-existent. The Center has keyed all the extant bibliographies and catalogs it can identify that are within scope, producing some over 85,000 separate entries. Under this grant the keyed entries will be modifed to fit MARC standards, duplicate holdings eliminated and holdings records consolidated forming an initial data base of 60-70,000 records. Uniform library symbols will be created. The resulting file will be mounted in the Research Libraries Information Network for public access. The process of adding additional records from machine-readable files submitted by participating libraries in North and South America will begin, matching algorithms developed, and new holdings and records as well as citations to microfilm facsimiles added. Scholars will have access to a single source for identifying surviving imprints and where they can be found. The file itself will be searchable across all fields through Boolean searching. Libraries will be able to use the file for copy cataloging and obtaining machine-readable records of their holdings for loading into their online public catalogs.