Sender: Rare book and manuscripts <EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU>
I am afraid that I may have contributed to this problem, as my former
employer often had the initial searching for an item done by civil service
staff, and occasionally they did not understand what the item actually was,
and created or added to the wrong record. When the item was finally
cataloged, the cataloger would remove the holdings from the original record.
And as a bibliographer I have chased down one or two, only to find that they
were in fact common items with mistakes in date or publisher info.
I guess if you have a lot of information you also have a lot of errors, when
the ratio between correct info and mistakes is consistent.
----Shelley Cox
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From: "Allison Rich" <Allison_Rich@BROWN.EDU>
To: <EXLIBRIS-L@LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [EXLIBRIS-L] OCLC (World Cat)
Hello Will:
There are no holdings attached to that record in OCLC. Therefore,
WorldCat
would not list a copy. It looks like Swarthmore entered the record, but
they
deleted their holdings for some reason. I believe it's OCLC's policy not
to
delete records even if all the holdings have been removed.
We here ran into the same situation.
So to clarify matters I called OCLC support.
They do not delete bib records even when there is no holding library.
They hope that someone will come around at some point and add a holding
eventually.
So your assessment is completely on point.
~Allison Rich
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"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend,
and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx"
Allison Rich
Catalogue Librarian
John Carter Brown Library
Providence, Rhode Island
Allison_Rich@brown.edu
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