Sometimes a national authority record just lacks some of the key information that your library needs. Maybe it’s an important cross-reference, a note, or some sort of field identifier. If you just receive the latest Library of Congress authority, for example, you could lose all that hard work that you and your staff have gone through to find the information and add it to your authorities. (more…)
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Announcing: New 300 Field Validation
Friday, April 9th, 2010We’re excited to announce that the 300 field validation that we’ve been working on is now in place and working. We add this to the hundreds of other corrections and validations that we make to bibliographic records as we process them. Judy, one of our Project Managers, explains the new process:
In an effort to continue improving our bibliographic validation services, we’ve been writing some cleanup steps for the 300 field. Nothing drastic of course — just some “straightening out” changes. The cleanup takes place only on records marked with ‘a’ in leader byte 6 … non-print bibs such as media, electronic resources, microforms, etc. are left as-is. Here’s a list of what the programming will do:
- * 300 $a = ‘unp.’ [or] ‘n.p.’ is changed to ‘1 v. (unpaged)’
- 300 $a = a comma is added to #### page numbers if missing (ex.: 5332 p. becomes 5,332 p.)
- 300 $a = ‘l.’ is changed to ‘leaves’
- 300 $a = ‘approx.’ is changed to ‘ca.’
- 300 $a = preliminary leaves and it’s abbreviation (p.l.) are removed (ex.: 4 p.l., xv, 312 p. = xv, 312 p.)
- 300 $a = ‘unnumbered’ is removed and brackets added (ex.: 48 unnumbered leaves = [48] leaves)
- If the p. is up against the :$b or the illustrative matter is up against the ;$c we add a space to separate
- 300 $a = Missing periods are added to ‘p’ (ex.: 135p. = 135 p. )
- 300 $b = The illustrative matter is rearranged to be in correct order
- 300 $b = Obsolete illustrative matter is replaced with ‘ill.’ (ex.: ‘tables’ or “fronts.’ = ‘ill.’)
- 300 $b = If ‘ill.’ is followed by the parenthetical illustrative matter, ‘ill.’ is dropped and the parenthetical matter remains (example: $bill. (ports.) = $bports.)
- 300 $b = illus. is changed to ill.
- Adds missing semicolon before $c
- Adds ;$ccm. if missing from 300 field
- [various pagings] = changes brackets to parentheses
- If there is no 300 and the record is a book, the default of $ap. ;$ccm. is added
- If there is numbered plate info in the $b that is moved to the $a – if plate designation is not numbered, it’s deleted
As with any of validation rules, these are optional, and if necessary, we can work with you to develop exactly what you’d like. These rules are now being included by default in our processing. We hope you find them useful!
Your New Automation Services Department
Friday, October 9th, 2009John Reese, the former Product Manager for Authority Control, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer within our company. John is still available to all of us and we welcome his input whenever we get a chance to hear it (jreese@bslw.com).
Nate Cothran has been promoted to Vice President of Automation Services and continues to look for innovative ways to serve you better. Nate has chosen Jeremy Myntti (jmyntti@bslw.com) as the new Project Manager for Authority Control services, which also includes Judy Archer (jarcher@bslw.com). All of us look forward to working with you on your future projects and welcome any questions, concerns or suggestions.