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The impact of vendor records on cataloging and access in academic libraries
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The addition of low-quality vendor records to the bibliographic utilities (OCLC and RLIN) has had a significant impact on cataloging and access in academic libraries, and more upgrading of lower-quality records is now necessary.Abstract:
The addition of low-quality vendor records to the bibliographic utilities (OCLC and RLIN) has had a significant impact on cataloging and access in academic libraries. Vendor records are brief, non-standard bibliographic records created by booksellers and loaded into the utilities. Because many libraries are choosing to copy these records from the utilities to their local online catalogs without editing or enhancing them, much effort is being duplicated, as individual libraries make the same enhancements locally. Less original cataloging is being conducted in the languages represented by the vendor records, and more upgrading of lower-quality records is now necessary, a change that has affected cataloging workflows, and ultimately access, in academic libraries. Quantitative research is needed on the impact of vendor records.read more
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Panning for Gold: Utility of the World Wide Web for Metadata and Authority Control in Special Collections.
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Cataloguing practices from creation to use: A study of Cape Town Metropolitan Public Libraries in Western Cape Province, South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the author presented a Doctor of Philosophy (Information Studies) in the School of Social Sciences, College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 2019.
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Historical and Current Implications of Cataloguing Quality for Next-Generation Catalogues
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Book Vendor Records in the OCLC Database
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The reorganization of monographic cataloging processes at Penn State University Libraries
TL;DR: The Monographs Task Force made recommendations concerning staffing, workflow, and staff training designed to increase efficiency and reduce handoffs, and the implementation of initial recommendations have shown positive results.
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