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Change Your Library's OCLC Profile
to Stop Generating Catalog Cards

By Linda Gonzalez
Do you occasionally receive catalog cards from OCLC, even though your library stopped maintaining a card catalog years ago?

If you do, then your OCLC cataloging profile is still designed to produce cards when a staff person at your library executes a produce command instead of the update command as a final action on a bibliographic record. Though many libraries no longer in need of catalog cards instruct staff to use only the update command to avoid receiving them, mistakes are occasionally made, and card sets are created by OCLC and mailed out, costing libraries money.

To prevent catalog card production even when produce is used, your OCLC profile can be changed so that cards are never generated for you. Since there is no fee to BCR members to change your profile, we encourage you to do so.

Questions about your profile can be directed to Linda Gonzalez (lgonzale@bcr.org) at BCR. Requests to change your profile to "no cards" can be sent to BCR's Cheryl Burkert via e-mail to cburkert@bcr.org.

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Change Your Library's OCLC Profile to Stop Generating Catalog Cards

Change Your Library's OCLC Profile
to Stop Generating Catalog Cards