Library Cataloging
Yesterday I read The Creation and Persistence of Misinformation in Shared Library Catalogs by David Bade. Lots to consider. He contends that cost-saving measures and increased bibliographic control have lead to a lack of language and subject knowledge in cataloging departments. This has led to serious mistakes, such as the TOC heading being treated as a series, a page of advertising being used as a title page and other misinformation entering the cataloging record. Mistakes in coding, typos, punctuation do limit access but many are amenable to machine detection and correction. Intellectual errors in assigning subject headings and linguistic errors are much less likely to be so easy to fix. These errors are the kind that can only be corrected by a knowledgeable cataloger with the item in hand.The short pamphlet is well written, with some humor (abstract and introduction) as well as ire directed at unprofessional cataloging. We should all read this and then take some time to reflect on our cataloging standards.
- Typos In Our Catalogs
This morning I corrected two typos in my catalog, Ethiopia had been misspelled. One time it was in a note field, another time in the subject heading. The note field would just make us look bad, but the subject field can decrease access to the title. (I...
- Typos
Typos in the catalog can be a problem for our users. More Typographical Errors in Library Databases, a listing of typos found by a group out to correct these errors has been updated. This list contains more subtle errors. "The words in this list are correctly...
- Subject Headings
Currently I'm reading the book Subject Determination During the Cataloging Process by Alenka Sauperl. The processes it describes sounds much more realistic than how the process was described in cataloging class. In class it ran (1) Examine the item...
- Spelling
Here is another listing of misspelled words found in our catalogs, Common Spelling Mistakes. Not sure how it was compiled or the relationship to the list by Terry Ballard, Typographical Errors in Library Databases. Thanks to David Schuster for pointing...
- Typographical Errors In Library Databases
Typographical Errors in Library Databases Terry Ballard has collected the most common spelling and typographical errors in our catalogs. This is important work, since an error can scatter references defeating one of the prime reasons for cataloging, to...
Library Cataloging
Misinformation
Yesterday I read The Creation and Persistence of Misinformation in Shared Library Catalogs by David Bade. Lots to consider. He contends that cost-saving measures and increased bibliographic control have lead to a lack of language and subject knowledge in cataloging departments. This has led to serious mistakes, such as the TOC heading being treated as a series, a page of advertising being used as a title page and other misinformation entering the cataloging record. Mistakes in coding, typos, punctuation do limit access but many are amenable to machine detection and correction. Intellectual errors in assigning subject headings and linguistic errors are much less likely to be so easy to fix. These errors are the kind that can only be corrected by a knowledgeable cataloger with the item in hand.The short pamphlet is well written, with some humor (abstract and introduction) as well as ire directed at unprofessional cataloging. We should all read this and then take some time to reflect on our cataloging standards.
- Typos In Our Catalogs
This morning I corrected two typos in my catalog, Ethiopia had been misspelled. One time it was in a note field, another time in the subject heading. The note field would just make us look bad, but the subject field can decrease access to the title. (I...
- Typos
Typos in the catalog can be a problem for our users. More Typographical Errors in Library Databases, a listing of typos found by a group out to correct these errors has been updated. This list contains more subtle errors. "The words in this list are correctly...
- Subject Headings
Currently I'm reading the book Subject Determination During the Cataloging Process by Alenka Sauperl. The processes it describes sounds much more realistic than how the process was described in cataloging class. In class it ran (1) Examine the item...
- Spelling
Here is another listing of misspelled words found in our catalogs, Common Spelling Mistakes. Not sure how it was compiled or the relationship to the list by Terry Ballard, Typographical Errors in Library Databases. Thanks to David Schuster for pointing...
- Typographical Errors In Library Databases
Typographical Errors in Library Databases Terry Ballard has collected the most common spelling and typographical errors in our catalogs. This is important work, since an error can scatter references defeating one of the prime reasons for cataloging, to...