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R -- PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES SOL RFQ NLM 00-179/UHP POC Uyen H. Phuong (301) 496-6127 E-MAIL: karen_riggs@nlm.nih.gov, uyen_phuong@nlm.nih.gov. It is the intent of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to procure professional services for the serial bibliographic record creation and Voyager maintenance project. Over the years, NLM has developed several databases, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and POPLINE, to serve the specialized areas of history of medicine, space medicine, bioethics, and population studies. As part of NLM's Reinvention project, all unique indexing citations from these specialized databases, some of which are created at NLM and others which are created by outside organizations, are being incorporated into the NLM DCMS and will be available to the public in MEDLINE and eventually accessible in PUBMED. In order to convert these indexing citations and fully implement the new DCMS, there must be a corresponding serial bibliographic record in Voyager, NLM's integrated library system, for each source listed in an indexing citation. It is estimated that between 4,600 and 9,600 serial records that are needed for this purpose do not currently exist in Voyager. In addition, existing Voyager serial records must be edited to reflect the fact that the citations are being moved into MEDLINE and to track the titles handled by HMD and these outside organizations. Additionally, all unique monographs from these specialized groups are being converted into Voyager. In the course of this conversion project, post-conversion clean-up tasks have been identified that are necessary to improve the presentation of monograph bibliographic and holdings records in the NLM online public access catalog and to facilitate accurate document delivery for these monographic items. The objective of this purchase order is to procure assistance for a two-phased project: 1) phase I: the creation and maintenance of basic serial bibliographic and holdings records in Voyager; and 2) phase II: database clean-up to improve the quality of converted monographic bibliographic and holdings records in Voyager. The work will include searching in Voyager to identify existing serial titles to be maintained to reflect current indexing and tracking information, and, as required to verify citations, searching of the various associated ELHILL indexing citation databases for which serial titles are being created. The project will include searching in OCLC and other library systems/catalogs to identify the appropriate serial bibliographic records needed, importing serial records from OCLC into the NLM Voyager cataloging module when copy is available or creating basic serial bibliographic records based on the records from other library catalogs or surrogate information supplied by NLM or the outside producing organization, editing data in MARC fields in Voyager bibliographic and holdings records associated with monographs, and other related activities. Management staff will be required to review the quality of the work to be performed and coordinate the assignments to vendor staff with the NLM Project Officer. Offerors must have staff with experience in serials, specifically bibliographicor related projects. Current knowledge of MARC21 content designation is required. Librarian staff working on the project must have at least one year of professional level experience in cataloging or serials bibliographic control. Previous experience working with an integrated library system is required. Consideration will be given to those individuals with previous experience with the Voyager ILS. Technician staff must have previous experience in online keyboarding or editing bibliographic or holdings records in an automated environment, using a bibliographic utility (e.g., OCLC, etc.) or an automated integrated library system. This service will procure under FAR Part 13 (Simplified Acquisitions). Request for Quotations (RFQ) Number NLM 00-179/UHP will be available on or about September 7, 2000. Request for RFQ NLM 00-179/UHP may be obtained by writing to the National Library of Medicine, Office of Acquisitions Management, 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38A, Room B1N20, Bethesda, Maryland 20894; Attention: Uyen H. Phuong, Lead Purchasing Agent. Facsimiles WILL NOT BE ACCEPTABLE. The period of performance is anticipated on or about September 25, 2000. All responsive sources may submit a proposal which will be considered by the NLM. Posted 08/18/00 (W-SN487902). (0231)

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