<div dir="ltr">Hi Jeff,<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>-Kathleen<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-7166997856877438235gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">_________________________________________<br>Kathleen M. Folger, Electronic Resources Officer<br>University of Michigan Library<br>312 Hatcher North<br>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190<br>V:(734) 764-9375<br>F:(734) 764-0259<br><a href="mailto:kfolger@umich.edu" target="_blank">kfolger@umich.edu</a><br></span></span><a href="mailto:kfolger@umich.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext"></span></a></div><div><br></div>My pronouns are she, her, hers – what are yours? </div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:58 AM J Siemon <<a href="mailto:jsiemon2002@gmail.com" target="_blank">jsiemon2002@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">https://www.slideshare.net/jsiemon/presentations</a>
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