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• W71290907 abstract "Nadine L. Baer is Serials Cataloger, James A. Barrett is Monographic Cataloger, and Karl E. Johnson is Monographic Cataloger at the University of Rhode Island. This article reports on a study to determine the nature and extent of the problems discovered when cataloging records for a consortium of five libraries were merged to create an online public access catalog (OPAC). Records in the host (University of Rhode Island) library's shelflist were compared to records in both the Online Catalog Library Center (OCLC) database and the OPAC. Problems were most acute in shared records, most commonly among those for reference materials and serials 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 clean-up of past cataloging sins had been expected. However, the magnitude of the problem and the apparent overlaying of first-loaded records by subsequently-loaded records was totally unexpected by cataloging staff, thereby calling into question the process by which the shared database was created. In 1984, the University of Rhode Island (URI), Roger Williams University (RWU), Rhode Island College (RIC), and the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) formed a consortium called the Higher Education Library Information Network (HELIN). Providence College (PC) subsequently joined the consortium in March of 1992. The goals of the consortium were to make available the resources of the state's academic libraries to the students of the participating institutions and the citizens of the state, share the costs of an online catalog, and save taxpayers money since three of the original four libraries were public institutions. Each library in the consortium was given equal voting status in the policymaking process to prevent the smaller libraries from being overpowered by URI, which was not only the largest library, but the only library with a systems librarian and the host site for the future consortium database. HELIN committees were formed for cataloging, reference, circulation, and reserves to recommend policy for the consortium. Final decisions on consortium matters were and are still made by the management committee, composed of the directors of the member libraries. A HELIN committee was formed to select an automated system for the consortium and, after much deliberation, Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (III) was chosen. A grant was obtained from the Champlin Foundation to offset the cost of the central processing unit. In March of 1991, the staff of the URI Library received access to its new online catalog, nine months before making it available to students. Along with this access came a rumor that 20,000 main entry records beginning with the letters R, S, and T had somehow been lost during the process of record conversion and were missing from the database. It soon became obvious to inquisitive catalogers that strange mutations, often weird and not so wonderful, had also occurred to some data. One oddity soon discovered was the existence of duplicate data: occasionally as many as eight to ten records for one item. Then came the discovery of missing call numbers and missing holdings, often made more confusing by the fact that bibliographic records attached to item records of affiliated institutions sometimes indicated that URI, whose records had been loaded first, was the originator of the bibliographic records. URI AACR2 serial records were often found lacking, but non-AACR2 serial records from another consortium member were present. Next, the plight of cataloging records for theses and dissertations came to light. Here it was not uncommon to have only one of two item records (stacks and archives) for a master's thesis or one of three item records (stacks, archives, and microfilm) for a doctoral dissertation to be present in the OPAC database. …" @default.
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