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[Marie Spratlin Hasskarl]

Hi All ~ We are inviting you to come to a great panel next week. See
attached.

 

Marie

 

Marie Spratlin Hasskarl

Library Director

Burlington Public Library

34 Library Lane/ PO Box 1379

Burlington, CT 06013-1379

860. 673.3331 

860.673.0897   fax

burlingtonctlibrary.info website

mshasskarl at libraryconnection.info

 

 

 

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From: conntech-bounces at mylist.net [mailto:conntech-bounces at mylist.net] On
Behalf Of Pat Kiser
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:51 AM
To: conntech at mylist.net
Subject: Re: [Conntech] OCLC records

 

Carolyn,

 

We at Library Connection have been aware of this problem since August. Baker
& Taylor gave OCLC copies of all their Title Source records in order to get
OCLC control numbers on the bib records. I don't know who made the decision
to load the records into WordCat but OCLC has throughly polluted their
database with these awful records.

 

Baker & Taylor created these records before they had the titles in their
warehouse. B&T told OCLC that they would send them a fuller record once the
title has arrived. There is no commitment to a time frame for getting a
fuller record.

 

In the meantime, OCLC is expecting their members to voluntarily go into
WorldCat and upgrade these records. Who has the time?

 

OCLC offered to upgrade the records through their Bib notification service.
This meant that OCLC was charging us for bib records that B&T was providing
for free AND charging us for an upgraded record.

 

After much persistence, OCLC has agreed to give CatExpress libraries free
upgrades of these Level 3 records.

 

Pat

 

 

 

 

For about the last month or so, we at the Wilton Library have seen a large
increase in the number of "brief records" (i.e, MARC records with no subject
headings, author, contents, etc.) that we have imported into our catalog
from OCLC. Of course, this requires extra steps to search for and bring over
the complete record once the book arrives.

 

Has anyone else seen this problem in their library? 

 

Thanks in advance for any information,

 

 



Carolyn Benjamin
Head, Technical Services
Reference Librarian
Wilton Library Association
137 Old Ridgefield Road
Wilton, CT 06824
(203) 762-3950

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Patricia Kiser
User Support Coordinator-Bibliographic Services
Library Connection Inc.
599 Matianuck Ave.
Windsor, CT  06095
email: pkiser at libraryconnection.info
Phone:  (860) 298-5322 x1009                Fax: (860) 298-5328

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