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Olac Capc Moving Image Work-Level Records Task Force Final Report And Recommendations, Part Iv: Extracting Work-Level Information From Existing Marc Manifestation Records, Kelley Mcgrath, Susannah Benedetti, Karen Gorss Benko, Lynne Bisko, Greta De Groat, Scott M. Dutkiewicz, Ngoc-My Guidarelli, Jeannette Ho, Nancy Lorimer, Scott Piepenburg, Thelma Ross, Walt Walker

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This subgroup of the Moving Image Work-Level Records Task Force of Online Audiovisual Catalogers (OLAC) Cataloging Policy Committee (CAPC) was charged with identifying places in MARC manifestation-level bibliographic records where work-level information may be encoded and examining a sample of MARC records to see how reliably this information might be extrapolated from existing records. Currently we do not have work-level records for moving images, except for a relatively small number of uniform title authority records, which usually contain only title information. Moving image uniform title authority records usually represent works, but tend to include only enough information to uniquely identify …