[Yulcat-l] Serial Records and Merging the RLG Union Catalog into WorldCat

[Steven Arakawa]

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Date:         Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:59:27 -0400
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From: "Patton,Glenn" <pattong at OCLC.ORG>
Subject: Serial Records and Merging the RLG Union Catalog into WorldCat
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Dear CONSER colleagues,

As OCLC staff have worked on the process of integrating the RLG Union 
Catalog in WorldCat, we have identified a approximately 200,000 
serials records that have presented various difficulties for OCLC's 
record matching processes.  Some of the records are very 
brief.  Others are serials with generic, single word titles.  There 
are also a substantial number of records which represent latest entry 
cataloging.

We have been reluctant to add these records but, since access to the 
RLG Union Catalog is going away soon and in order that we can 
represent the holdings of libraries that had contributed to the RLG 
Union Catalog as completely as possible in WorldCat, we will be 
adding these records over the next few days.

We expect that a significant number of duplicate records will be 
created in the process.  We know that these duplicates may cause 
concerns about the quality of serial records in WorldCat and we will 
continue to look at ways in which we can identify and eliminate some 
of the duplicates.  We will, of course, accept requests to merge 
records through the usual channels.

Glenn Patton
Director, WorldCat Quality Management
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Kilgour Place
Dublin  OH  43017-3395
Phone: +1.800.848.5878, ext. 6371 or +1.614.764.6371
Fax: +1.614.718.7187
Email: <mailto:pattong at oclc.org>mailto:pattong at oclc.org


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Steven Arakawa
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu
   
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