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The following '''''optional''''' non-library-specific retrospective projects are opportunities for cleaning up the database and thereby improving the quality & reliability of user access, if you have the available time and manpower to do so. | The following '''''optional''''' non-library-specific retrospective projects are opportunities for cleaning up the database and thereby improving the quality & reliability of user access, if you have the available time and manpower to do so. | ||
''' | '''Contact CCS Member Services''' if you need help compiling a list of records that need editing or want to know more about what a particular project involves. | ||
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Revision as of 15:04, 20 June 2017
Required projects
See the CCS Migration portal for clean up projects (patron and bibliographic) in preparation for the Polaris migration. See also the Blue Cloud Analytics (BCA) Shared Reports.
Optional projects
The following optional non-library-specific retrospective projects are opportunities for cleaning up the database and thereby improving the quality & reliability of user access, if you have the available time and manpower to do so.
Contact CCS Member Services if you need help compiling a list of records that need editing or want to know more about what a particular project involves.
- Add 347 fields to Blu-ray+DVD, DVD+CD, etc. combo pack records
- Add 257 field to video records for country of production
- Change tagging of genres from 650 to 655
- Add newly created genre terms & subject headings to applicable older records
- Delete "duplicate" 007 fields
- Delete "duplicate" 505 fields
- Add 753 and possibly also 347 fields to PC games & other software
- Add subject & genre headings to older records that currently have none at all
- Check old "MacroFix" records against the actual item and what's in WorldCat to make sure the correct OCLC number & description were used, and clean up the record accordingly
- Overlay any remaining records affected by the Smartport/006 bug
- Change fictitious character headings from 650 to 600
- Fix typos in ISBNs & ISSNs, or move them to 020 |z
- Fix records that have a Date Cataloged but are still marked "Preliminary" in the 999 or 099 field
- Check & when appropriate fix or remove records that are still marked "Preliminary" in the 999 or 099 field but were created more than a year ago.
- Fix records that are still marked "Preliminary" in the 999 or 099 field but have items out and circulating
- Add 006/007 fields to AV records that lack them
- Remove e-book ISBNs from print records and print ISBNs from e-book records
- Fix records that have a Date Cataloged but no data in the 300 field.
- Check and, when necessary, overlay records that still say "[Library code] LIBRARY DATA"
- Check & when appropriate fix records with questionable nonfiling indicators
- Remove 599 fields, Serial Controls, and/or MARC Holdings records that are still present after the library's last copy has been removed