Merge Conference Call

The conference call to discuss the merge, de-duping, Authority work of our records started with a problem. We have noticed this problem with our LC MARC upgrade. Titles have morphed into other titles. Fortunately our data loader identified what was happening. The records of the titles that changed had an error in the 010 field, LCCN. So when the upgrade was applied these LCCN numbers pulled the wrong records. We will be excluding the troubled records from the upgrade for the final load. The libraries will have to fix those and merge the records with other ones already in the database. Another issue was with the de-duping. Some records were close but not matching. These were records with a physical description field off by a digit or punctuation. These will have to be done manually rather than risk the machine doing it and merging records we don’t want merged. The Authority work appears to have gone well.