Collection Services held a cataloguing forum this morning and reached the following decisions.
Now that OSMOSIS is operational, holdings will no longer be added to Te Puna when records are catalogued. Our Te Puna holdings will be updated at the time of each OSMOSIS snapshot (normally at three month intervals.) However, original records will continue to be added to Te Puna as they are catalogued.

Tables of contents (TOCs), descriptive summaries, and author’s affiliations were discussed in the context of these no longer being available via Te Puna beyond October this year. After October it is proposed that this content is purchased from Blackwells Book Services for monographic works where TOCs are lacking. It is felt they would considerably add value, particularly to edited works. Should this proposal get the nod, other staff may recommend monograph titles they feel would benefit from the inclusion of TOCs.

For works with an LC record that has TOCs, summaries and links to publishers information (quotes from blurbs, book jackets, biographical information, etc.)
Cat Forum has decided that all the 856 links that connect to publisher’s information, contents and biographical information etc will now be retained i.e. if there are TOCs in the record we will still keep the 856 link to contents. Links in LC records are considered durable.

There will be a project set up shortly to look at issues surrounding e-books, including the cataloguing issues.