Abstract
Coty is information specialist, National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, SUNY/Buffalo. During a three-year tenure as administrator of special projects at the Western New York Library Resources Council (WNYLRC), the author wrote and administered over $280,000 in competitive grants for eleven union listing projects. Most consisted of retrospective conversion of serials holdings projects, but a tape-load onto OCLC, the associated tape-load clean-up activities, and an initial union list product were also funded. Funding was through the New York State Office of Library Development, including LSCA Title III and the Regional Bibliographic Databases program of the state library. This paper presents some of the considerations that were important in writing the union list grants for the WNYLRC. The author hopes that these considerations will be helpful to others writing union list proposals. Since the Western New York Union List of Serials was created on OCLC, many of the examples given in this article will relate to that utility; however, the processes and principles remain the same for any union list grant proposal.
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