Document (#12412)

Author

Baer, N.L.
Barrett, J.A.
Johnson, K.E.

Title

OPAC database creation problems

Source

Information technology and libraries. 14(1995) no.3, S.179-184

Year

1995

Abstract

Reports results of a study to determine the nature and extent of the problems discovered when cataloguing records for a consortium of 5 libraries were merged to create an OPAC. Records in the shelf list of the host library (Rhode Island University) were compeared to records in both the OCLC database and the OPAC. Problems were found to be most acute in sheared records, most commonly among those for reference materials and periodicals where host library holdings were often missing. Even for records present, call numbers were often missing, multi volume records were often incomplete, and records for theses and dissertations were confusing and misleading. A dirty database requiring some cleaning up of past cataloguing errors had been expected but the magnitude of the problem and the apparent overlaying of the first loaded records by subsequently loaded records was totally unexpected by cataloguing staff, thereby calling into question the process by which the shared database had been created

Theme

OPAC

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