On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Exelby Alan Mr (LIB) <A.Exelby@uea.ac.uk> wrote:

Just a comment: I don’t think this is necessarily a question of the age of records – we have seen sets of ‘MARC’ records for e-books that were of appalling quality.

 

Alan

 

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From: bslwac-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:bslwac-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Ted Waller
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:50 PM

To: Backstage Library Works Authority Contol Listserv

Subject: [BSLWAC] Alexander Street, Chadwyk

 

We just had authority work done on 3 years of bib records, and Alexander Street Press and Chadwyck are responsible for 90% of our cleanup work.  We had downloaded several collections of bib records from these two (e.g., Classical Music Library, out of copyright poetry collections) and the headings were atrocious.  This is not a problem originating from Backstage, of course.  I don't know where these publishers got their marc records, but they must be exceedingly old.

 

Ted Waller

Carlyle Campbell Library

Meredith College

919 760 8381

 

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