-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: map cataloging on OCLC--statistics
Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:26:18 -0500 (CDT)
From:   Christopher Winters <[log in to unmask]>
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To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>

Angie (and everyone else), I've done all this stuff on
WorldCat, where we're not paying for searches--but I think
you could do everything on Connexion (dt="maps" and li:XXX).
And yes, the results are cumulative, and the "Diff[erence]"
columns show the change from one year to the next.

With the indexes available to the public, I'm pretty sure
you'd have to do this sort of search every year. Maybe OCLC
would have the ability to search its July 2002 catalog--but
we don't.

If you sort by accession number you can get a picture
of the last 1000 (only) records done, including both
original and matching records, but that's all. Connexion
has--or had--an accession number _range_ search (I
can't find it in the list), but it is--or was--very slow.

Thanks for your comments and congratulations to AGS on
getting all those maps cataloged!

Chris

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:57:49 -0500
>From: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: map cataloging on OCLC--statistics
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        Re: map cataloging on OCLC--statistics
>Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:35:41 -0500 (CDT)
>From:   Angie Cope
>Reply-To:
>To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <MAPS-
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>
>Chris,
>
>I got the table to work using IE - yes, I'm a Firefox user.
>
>Your table is so cool that it's blowing my mind. Hence, I'm
still having trouble wrapping
>my mind around it. So, the numbers - in the Keyword column -
 represent an accumulated total?
>Subtracting 2005 from 2006 would give you a total number
cataloged/entered into OCLC for 2006?
>And, am I correct in thinking that one would need to
conduct this type of a search each year?
>Or is there a way to go and look at everything that was
cataloged in a given year
>(sort of retrospectively) say by the date the record was
entered?
>
>One more thing - are you doing your search in WorldCat or
Connexion?
>
>Thanks for sharing Chris! This is really awesome!
>
>Angie
>AGS Library
>UW Milwaukee Libraries
>
>