Some concern has been expressed during the Intercat project about attaching holdings to records for electronic resources, items that are not locally "owned." This has been of concern from Dialog’s early days when patrons of a library indeed had access to a specific database, and the database could be cataloged, and holdings symbols could be attached.
Do we catalog only those items physically located in our libraries, or those items our patrons have access to? This question needs to be answered by each library as it discusses cataloging electronic resources.
One of the concerns is related to interlibrary loan. However, bibliographic records for Internet resources clearly state that these are electronic resources available through the Internet. No interlibrary loan staff is likely to forward requests based on attached holding symbols.
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