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
We handle authority control for most ebook records inhouse because of quality and ownership issues. Judith Kirk Coordinator, Authority Control Western Michigan University Libraries Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5353 269-387-0688 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Waller" <wallert@meredith.edu> To: "Backstage Library Works Authority Contol Listserv" <bslwac@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 4:50:04 PM 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 _______________________________________________ BSLWAC mailing list BSLWAC@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bslwac
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 ============================== Mr A.V. Exelby, Systems/Databases Librarian. The Library, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Tel.: 01603 592432 E-mail: a.exelby@uea.ac.uk Information Services ================================ "Man, who'd have thought being a librarian could be so tough" Seamus Harper, in 'Harper 2.0', "Andromeda". 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
I am curious about where and how these records were created, and why they were used when good marcs are readily available and cheap. Ted Waller Carlyle Campbell Library Meredith College 919 760 8381 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.****
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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. ****
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Exactly. This is why we try to handle this stuff inhouse....these name headings can be so poorly constructed that we end up with mismatches from BSLW, and that means I have to deal manually with it anyway, so I may as well "head this off at the pass' and not send the records for authority control. Too many mismatches. This is -not- the fault of BSLW. We save money (and frustration on my part) by not sending those records to BSLW as part of our quarterly workflow. It took awhile to totally tailor our profile the way we wanted, but now it's worth it. We've been with BSLW for a year and a half, and I'm finally getting a reasonable handle on the quarterly workflow. It took me awhile to integrate what I could get from BSLW with what Voyager could give me, and to plan which reports to address first. If you're a Voyager library, you still need to check the global change queue :-) so it's like an additional 'report' that corresponds in some ways to the BSLW "Authority record change" report. The significant changes I -need- to deal with, I get from the Voyager global change report. All other changes (in fixed fields, added cross-references or note fields) are noted in the BSLW authority change reports, and I don't need those as much as the Voyager global change queue. So that eliminated quite a large number of BSLW reports from my consideration. Western has one person dedicated to authority control 40 hours a week (me) and there's PLENTY to keep me busy. I'm not sure how other libraries without that many hours for authority control deal with the reports/quantity of work. If we did not reconcile those reports, our database would be suffering. I can't impress how important it is to have someone or someones who can systematically go through these reports to find the work they need to do. Once you get through it a few times, it gets easier, but there is still plenty to keep me busy until the next quarter. I also do NACO work, generally I can get the most done at the end of one quarter and before we ship out the next quarter's records. This last time I used those couple of weeks to eliminate the old LC genre authority records manually and to re-code bib records with 650's that should be 655's. Our Voyager system is set to NOT overlay on $z in the 010 field. I also just finished work going through every gsafd heading and comparing against our catalog, adding the appropriate indicator and $2 gsafd. Where there were duplicates or conflicts between gsafd and lc genre, I took lc genre as the preferred heading. Enough rambling...even on a Friday. Time to get back to the global change queue. Judith Kirk Coordinator, Authority Control Western Michigan University Libraries Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5353 269-387-0688 > From: "Exelby Alan Mr (LIB)" <A.Exelby@uea.ac.uk>
To: "Backstage Library Works Authority Contol Listserv" <bslwac@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 7:07:16 AM Subject: Re: [BSLWAC] Alexander Street, Chadwyk 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 ============================== Mr A.V. Exelby, Systems/Databases Librarian. The Library, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ Tel.: 01603 592432 E-mail: a.exelby@uea.ac.uk Information Services ================================ "Man, who'd have thought being a librarian could be so tough" Seamus Harper, in 'Harper 2.0', "Andromeda". (snipped)
Judith, Concerning the BSLW reports that accompany the quarterlies: I have a simple Excel-based procedure for handling these that cuts down on the time they require by about 75%. I made the procedure available here a couple of years ago and it was well received. Did you see it then? BTW, with III we also have to review local system-generated reports as well as the BSLW reports after quarterly updates just like you do. Ted Waller Carlyle Campbell Library Meredith College 919 760 8381 On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Judith A Kirk <judith.a.kirk@wmich.edu>wrote:
Exactly. This is why we try to handle this stuff inhouse....these name headings can be so poorly constructed that we end up with mismatches from BSLW, and that means I have to deal manually with it anyway, so I may as well "head this off at the pass' and not send the records for authority control. Too many mismatches.
This is -not- the fault of BSLW. We save money (and frustration on my part) by not sending those records to BSLW as part of our quarterly workflow. It took awhile to totally tailor our profile the way we wanted, but now it's worth it.
We've been with BSLW for a year and a half, and I'm finally getting a reasonable handle on the quarterly workflow. It took me awhile to integrate what I could get from BSLW with what Voyager could give me, and to plan which reports to address first. If you're a Voyager library, you still need to check the global change queue :-) so it's like an additional 'report' that corresponds in some ways to the BSLW "Authority record change" report. The significant changes I -need- to deal with, I get from the Voyager global change report. All other changes (in fixed fields, added cross-references or note fields) are noted in the BSLW authority change reports, and I don't need those as much as the Voyager global change queue. So that eliminated quite a large number of BSLW reports from my consideration.
Western has one person dedicated to authority control 40 hours a week (me) and there's PLENTY to keep me busy. I'm not sure how other libraries without that many hours for authority control deal with the reports/quantity of work. If we did not reconcile those reports, our database would be suffering.
I can't impress how important it is to have someone or someones who can systematically go through these reports to find the work they need to do. Once you get through it a few times, it gets easier, but there is still plenty to keep me busy until the next quarter. I also do NACO work, generally I can get the most done at the end of one quarter and before we ship out the next quarter's records. This last time I used those couple of weeks to eliminate the old LC genre authority records manually and to re-code bib records with 650's that should be 655's. Our Voyager system is set to NOT overlay on $z in the 010 field. I also just finished work going through every gsafd heading and comparing against our catalog, adding the appropriate indicator and $2 gsafd. Where there were duplicates or conflicts between gsafd and lc genre, I took lc genre as the preferred heading.
Enough rambling...even on a Friday. Time to get back to the global change queue.
Judith Kirk Coordinator, Authority Control Western Michigan University Libraries Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5353 269-387-0688
*From: *"Exelby Alan Mr (LIB)" <A.Exelby@uea.ac.uk>
*To: *"Backstage Library Works Authority Contol Listserv" < bslwac@mailman.xmission.com> *Sent: *Friday, July 22, 2011 7:07:16 AM *Subject: *Re: [BSLWAC] Alexander Street, Chadwyk
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
============================== Mr A.V. Exelby, Systems/Databases Librarian. The Library, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ
Tel.: 01603 592432 E-mail: a.exelby@uea.ac.uk
Information Services ================================ "Man, who'd have thought being a librarian could be so tough" Seamus Harper, in 'Harper 2.0', "Andromeda".
(snipped)
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