[Eril-l] OCLC collection missing Sept 2018 titles from Oxford Scholarship Online

[J Siemon]

OCLC Knowledge Base collection Oxford Scholarship Online Religion =
OUP.osoReligion is missing the Sept 2018 Religion titles from Oxford
Scholarship Online, and three older titles.  OCLC and Oxford are both
excellent organizations, yet sometimes even reliable vendors make mistakes.

This is a good example of a larger issue I've been discussing at
conferences for the last couple years.  Libraries need to devote
significantly more staff resources to reviewing collection metadata.
Libraries hire thousands of catalogers, who spend time reviewing MARC data
for *individual* titles.  I'm convinced that some of these people/staff
resources need to be reallocated to review the accuracy of *collection*
level data.  Book and journal budgets have shifted toward purchasing
collections of eResources (instead of individual titles).  Library staffing
needs to shift in a similar manner, toward reviewing and correcting
collection level metadata in addition to individual title data.  When
collection level data is wrong, tens, and sometime hundreds of e-books or
e-articles are not available to our patrons.

I've contacted support staff at both organizations.
I don't know whether Oxford neglected to send this data or OCLC neglected
to load these titles.

In any case more library staff need to be devoted to noticing these
collection level metadata issues, and trouble-shooting with vendors to make
the corrections.  See my article from the Charleston Conference, 2017,
 "You May Own It . . . But Can They Find It? A Panel Discussion: Part 3 of
Panel Presentation: Collection-Level Cooperative Cataloging"
https://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284316663 or some of my presentations at
slideshare https://www.slideshare.net/jsiemon/presentations



All the best,

Jeff Siemon
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