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A Field of Innovation
WESTLAWNEXT AND MARC21 RECORDS:
A PERFECT MATCH
BRIAN CAHILL AND JONI CASSIDY
JULY 11, 2010
WEST AND CASSIDY CATALOGUING:
A Partnership
to Bring You High-Quality
MARC21 catalog record sets!
TODAY’S SESSION
• MARC 21 catalog record sets for content in:
– Rise of American Law
– Westlaw.com
– WestlawNext
• Update on loading Cassidy records into OCLC’s
WorldCat Local
RISE OF AMERICAN LAW
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
• A compilation of out-of-print secondary
law texts designed for legal scholars and
historical researchers
• A DVD collection of PDF images
• Full text documents on Westlaw
• Contains over 1,700 volumes (400 titles)
• Includes titles from the following West
publishers
West Publishing
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing
Banks-Baldwin
Bancroft-Whitney
Edward Thompson
Clark Boardman Callaghan
American Law Book Company
Boston Book Company
RISE OF AMERICAN LAW
• Covers a period from 1820 – 1970
– The bulk of the collection is circa 1920s and 1930s
– a watershed period in American legal history
• And an important time in the history of legal publishing
– The birth of large multi-topic, multi-jurisdiction sets
• Reveals the origins of many legal topics that arose in the late 19th
and early 20th C
IMPORTANT UPGRADES
• Cassidy Cataloguing has recently upgraded this record set by
adding URLs that link to the Westlaw.com version of each
title, instead of the DVD version of the same data.
BY THE NUMBERS
Records currently available for lawschool.westlaw.com & westlaw.com
Between 2006 and 2010
Cassidy Cataloguing has created approximately
22,000 MARC21 catalog records for legal research
databases
Westlaw.com
Record sets recently re-compiled to form 7 collections:
• Westlaw 1/6 – E-treatises
• Westlaw 2 – Case law
• Westlaw 3/8 – Statutes, Restatements, Model & Uniform laws,
Forms, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Directories
• Westlaw 4/7 – E-journals, E-law reviews, E-newsletters
[Aggregator-neutral format]
• Westlaw 5 – Legislative histories, Practice guides, CLE materials,
Administrative agency reports
• Nutshell series in Westlaw – available as an add-on collection
from West
• Hornbook series in Westlaw – available as an add-on collection
from West
Example of MARC21 catalog record consistent with AACR2Rev.2002 – Chap. 9 rules.
Example of MARC21 catalog record created according to Aggregator-neutral record guidelines.
AND NOW INTRODUCING…
• WESTLAWNEXT AND MARC21 RECORDS
CURRENT PLANS
• Primary sources, Federal and State, are being migrated first.
• MARC21 catalog records for statutes, case law, digests, and
administrative agency reports will be upgraded first.
• We believe the e-treatise records and the e-periodical records will
require the least amount of conversion work – probably just an
additional URL for the WestlawNext platform.
• Statutes, for example, are undergoing a content re-organization.
• Annual files are being re-grouped as
– Current
– Historical
MARC21 record in WESTLAW.COM for -
WestlawNext records – 1 for current file and 1 for the historical files.
A word about the slow progress
to upload Cassidy records to OCLC’s WorldCat Local
We announced a signed contract on April 2, 2010.
The first week of July 2010, we were finally asked to submit
the whole Westlaw1 MARC file as a “full sample.”
We await further instructions…