LINGUISTIC 1. LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM
The Linguistic Data Consortium corpora consist of CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, hard-drives and online titles. The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) notifies Fondren (the AUL for Collections ) when new corpora are released, and she requests they be sent and when necessary signs the licenses . Michael Barlow is our main consumer of these corporawhen necessary.
Cataloging receives the cd-roms discs from Acquisitions Receiving Coordinator along with accompanying invoices. A corpus or transcript available by ftp online may be included on the invoice.
The corpora and transcripts are catalogued cataloged in OCLC and exported to our system. There are constant data records “ldc” for the cd-roms and “ldccf” for the files available remotely.
The cd-roms are cataloged as
Type REF-CD-ROM
Location ERC
Volume NEW
Starting June 2016, LDC will not send Fondren any new materials unless requested. If the materials arrive without requests, Cataloging can just trash them. If it is a requested material by patrons, Cataloging will process following the guidelines below.
CD-ROMs are cataloged as:
Type: REF-CD-ROM
Location: DMC
Item cat1: NEW
DVD-ROMs are cataloged as:
Type: REF-DVDROM
Location: DMC
Item cat1: NEW
Hard-drives are cataloged as:
Type: HARDDRIVE
Location: DMC
Item cat1: NEW
Files The files available remotely are cataloged as:
Type Type: INTERNET
Location Location: INTERNETVolume INTERNET
Item cat1: NEW
Call No. : INTERNET
Class Scheme ASIS
Scheme: ASIS
When multiple copies of discs are available, the additional copies are sent to the CIRC-DESK:
Additional CD-ROMs are cataloged as:
Type: CD-ROM
Location: CIRC-DESK
Item cat1: NEW
Additional DVD-ROMs are cataloged as:
Type: DVD-ROM
Location: CIRC-DESK
Item cat1: NEW
Information about the releases may be found at the LDC website: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/