• Collections & Technical Services
• May 07
• Issue: 212

WorldCat: Not Just Bigger. Better!

A recent posting on OCLC-CAT by Glenn Patton, OCLC’s Director of WorldCat Quality Management, provided an interesting summary of OCLC's Quality Control Section’s activities. According to Patton, “For the first 9 months of this fiscal year (July 2006 through March 2007), OCLC staff have:

• Corrected 2,012,675 bibliographic records.
• Performed 22,853 merges resulting in the deletion of 25,625 bibliographic records.
• Added 224 new authority records.
• Updated 4,111 authority records.
• Referred 254 authority records (name and subject) to the Library of Congress for resolution.

“Many of the changes resulted from the processing of 129,931 change requests,” Patton said, “an increase of 121% over the same period of fiscal year 2006.”

Congratulations to the Quality Control Section and Connexion users everywhere, who take the time to report and correct errors and issues in WorldCat and the Authority Files. Now that’s collaboration

!

For more information about OCLC’s quality programs, and how to report errors, please see http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/quality/default.htm.

Patton, Glenn ‹pattpng@oclc.org›, “OCLC Quality Control Section Activities,” Apr. 13, 2007, ‹listserv://OCLC-CAT@OCLC.ORG›

[Lauren Pinsley, OCLC Services Manager, Nylink]

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