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DRAFT REVISION

Introduction

Harvard Library holds ~45,000 books that were redistributed by Library of Congress European Mission after being seized by Nazis during WWII and held temporarily at the Offenbach Archival Depot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offenbach_Archival_Depot).

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The Metadata Standards Working Group recommends identifying and tracing these books as a best practice.  The minimal treatment is to place Holdings and items records should be updated according to the recommendations in Harvard Library Retention Agreements and Retention Coding in Items and Holdings.  In addition, the a 561 note should be placed in the holdings record and trace , and the local bibliographic record should include a tracing for the European Mission as a former owner.  Please use cataloger's judgement to determine if ownership stamps should be transcribed and additional former owners should be traced in the local bibliographic record.  Also note that multiple retention agreements should be reflected in multiple 583 fields.

Minimal Best Practice

Place the following immediate source of acquisition notes in the holdings record and trace the LC European Mission in the local bibliographic record indicating the owning library and, if necessary, copy-specific information:

• Holdings record
  • 008/12, value should be 8 (permanent retention)
  • 561 1_ $$3 [material specified] $$a Acquired through the European Mission and Cooperative Acquisitions Project (Library of Congress).
  • 583 1_ $$3 [material specified] $$a committed to retain $$c YYYYMMDD $d in perpetuity $f LC European Mission Books
• Items record
  • Retention Information
    • Committed to Retain: Yes
    • Retention Reason: (pending term)
• Local bibliographic record
  • 710 2  $$3 [material specified] $$a European Mission and Cooperative Acquisitions Project (Library of Congress), $$e former owner. $$5 [library code]

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