<div dir="ltr">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.<br><br>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 <u>individual</u> titles. I'm convinced that some of these people/staff resources need to be reallocated to review the accuracy of <u>collection</u> 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.<br><br>I've contacted support staff at both organizations.<br>I don't know whether Oxford neglected to send this data or OCLC neglected to load these titles. <br><br>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" <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284316663" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://dx.doi.org/10.5703/1288284316663</a>
or some of my presentations at slideshare <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/jsiemon/presentations" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.slideshare.net/jsiemon/presentations</a>
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