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Abstract

Reports results of a study, conducted at Rhode Island University Library, to determine whether cataloguing records known to be missing from a library consortium OPAC database could be identified using the database search features. Attempts to create lists of bibliographic records held by other libraries in the consortium using Boolean searching features failed due to search feature limitations. Samples of search logic were created, collections of records based on this logic were assembled manually and then compared with card catalogue of the single library. Results suggest that use of the Boolean OR operator to conduct the broadest possible search could find 56.000 of the library's missing records that were held by other libraries. Use of the Boolean AND operator to conduct the narrowest search found 85.000 missing records. A specific library search made of the records of the most likely consortium library to have overlaid the single library's holdings found that 80.000 of the single library's missing records were held by a specific library

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Abstract

Reports results of a study to determine the nature and extent of the problems discovered when cataloguing records for a consortium of 5 libraries were merged to create an OPAC. Records in the shelf list of the host library (Rhode Island University) were compeared to records in both the OCLC database and the OPAC. Problems were found to be most acute in sheared records, most commonly among those for reference materials and periodicals 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 cleaning up of past cataloguing errors had been expected but the magnitude of the problem and the apparent overlaying of the first loaded records by subsequently loaded records was totally unexpected by cataloguing staff, thereby calling into question the process by which the shared database had been created