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

[Kathleen Folger]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks very much for the message and the links to your presentations. I've
been concerned about this issue as well, so I'm looking forward to delving
into them.

Do you mind my asking how you were able to detect the missing records? Do
you have a process in place for comparing the number of records received to
number of titles purchased? For the most part, we simply accept the records
available and don't do a check to try to confirm we have records for every
title included in a collection we've purchased. Often, especially for
frontlist ebook packages, that information isn't even available from the
publisher so we end up relying on our subject specialists or users to
identify missing records. That's not a great strategy, so I'd be interested
in hearing about ways others are trying to address the issue. Thanks!

-Kathleen
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:58 AM J Siemon <jsiemon2002 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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