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Fischer assays of oil-shale drill cores and rotary cuttings from the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado / by John R. Dyni ; U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy. (OCLC #40686692)

The Computer Files workform (Type: m) is not always appropriate for CD-ROMs, but in this case it is! The contents are primarily numerical data, with a few text files of very nice metadata explaining the contents of the various rows and columns.

The record includes a 256 for Computer File Characteristics: 

    256 __ ǂa Electronic numeric data.
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Encyclopedia of materials : science and technology / editors in chief, by K.H. Jurgen Buschow [and others]. (OCLC #47238922)

The OCLC record for this encyclopedia suggests that the accompanying CD-ROM includes the encyclopedia content, but I was suspicious of the “web access disc” wording and access code – it seemed more likely that the disc included links to an online resource version of the encyclopedia that would accept the access code.

If that’s the case, can we really circulate the disc? Are we allowed to just share our access code (and online access) outside of the library?

I checked the contents of the disc, and they are are as minimal as I expected – a single PDF (advertisement), plus some HTML pages with supporting images, and a “Register for web access” that points to a page on the publisher’s web site… a page which is long dead, since the disc is from 2001.

I’ll confirm with the selector for this branch, but assume we won’t be keeping the disc for our collection.

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Early American art : a window on history and culture. (OCLC #49595559)

In cataloging, we aren’t always privy to collection development decisions, but sometimes we get a peek. In this case, we accepted this CD-ROM for the fine arts library because:

  • still works
  • adorable / historical
  • rare outside New England

The jewel case is broken though, so that will have to be replaced.

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This CD-ROM was sent to cataloging; it is a database with a product key allowing it to be installed/used on one computer. Though we could have cataloged the database on the media in hand, it would not be useful to our patrons, as it cannot circulate or be used in that format in the library. We forwarded it on to the branch library, who will work with Library IT to get it installed, and we will catalog it as an electronic resource once we know more details.