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In OCLC's WorldCat, '''parallel records''' are multiple records for the same item, but with differing languages of cataloging for cataloger-supplied notes, GMDs, abbreviations, etc.  These records exist chiefly because of bibliographic sharing deals OCLC has struck with foreign libraries such as NUKAT, the Polish national library.  (The actual language of the item itself is irrelevant, as foreign libraries can and do also acquire and catalog English-language material.)
 
'''Only''' use English-language cataloging for the CCS database.<ref name="scrap200706">SCRAP minutes, June 2006</ref>.  If the only records in WorldCat for the item in hand have non-English cataloging, [http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/specialcataloging/default.shtm#BCGBAEHC create a new parallel record] in WorldCat.
 
Non-English cataloging can be identified by the presense of a language code in <code>040 &Dagger;b</code> other than <code>eng</code>.  A record with <code>040 &Dagger;b eng</code> or with no <code>040 &Dagger;b</code> at all is an English-language record.
 
Parallel records will usually contain a 936 field with one or more OCLC numbers of the other-language records for that item.  If you find a record with non-English cataloging and a 936 field, try searching for the OCLC number(s) in the 936 field to see if there is already an English-language record that was not present or not obvious in your original search results.
 
If you find a record in WorldCat that has <code>040 &Dagger;b eng</code> or no <code>040 &Dagger;b</code> at all but has non-English cataloging (GMDs, cataloger-supplied notes, abbreviations, etc.), edit the master record to change the GMDs, notes, etc. to English and then load that record into the CCS database.
 
If you find a record in CCS that has an 040 &Dagger;b that is not <code>eng</code>, find or create a record in WorldCat with English-language cataloging and then overlay the existing local record.

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