BR Records NLS Should Not Have Included In MARC

All:

I was looking for wonky subject headings the other day (as one does) and came across "In French." The heading was used in just one record, a title in braille, which, of course, is in French. I inquired of NLS and got this reply: "Hi all,James, thanks for pointing this out. As part of our preparations to move back to Capitol Hill, I sorted through hundreds of non-English braille books in the basement at Taylor St., most of which had never been cataloged. Many of these are unique items of which we only have one single hard copy version. We kept a number of the most precious items (about 35 titles) with us in the Adams building. We have begun cataloging those, and their numbers are in the BR25441-25474 range. We shipped the majority of the non-English braille from the basement to MSCE, and they will be available to request via Interlibrary Loan once we are able to catalog them.James, I think you are probably right that this set of books in Adams should only be in the NLS Voyager catalog and not in WebReads or KLAS. They can’t be circulated to patrons, but we needed to document them as part of our collection. Happy to hear other suggestions, though."There was some further discussion, but NLS decided that, instead of recataloging them as BRA titles (since that is what they are), the will keep the BR numbers and we can purge them from our systems. Now, you don't *need* to purge them, but you would then need to mark them up all over so folks know they can't order them through KLAS or the OPAC, but only through ILL. 

Here is the sequence of numbers:

BR025441
BR025442
BR025443
BR025444
BR025445
BR025446
BR025447
BR025448
BR025449
BR025450
BR025451
BR025452
BR025453
BR025454
BR025455
BR025456
BR025457
BR025458
BR025459
BR025460
BR025461
BR025462
BR025463
BR025464
BR025465
BR025466
BR025467
BR025468
BR025469
BR025470
BR025471
BR025472
BR025473
BR025474

Best,

James 

Don't forget to remove the subject and series headings before you delete the record!

-JG-