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Sent: Friday, January 9, 2009 6:32:05 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: oclc records


Is it me? Am I too picky? Is OCLC outsourcing its cataloging to the moon?


Why do I find the following in professional  ???  cataloging records?


Washington Dc-- I suppose on the moon they do not know how to
capitalize/spell DC

Adc the map people, instead of ADC  and no mention in the record of
Alexandria Drafting Company

Harpercollins and not HarperCollins

etc., etc.,

I am not a cataloger, so I probably just do not understand something here.
This just means our staff has to make the corrections so the records are
literate. Not to mention the staffs of every other library using these
records.  sorry, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.


Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
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New York, NY 10018-2788

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