April 16, 2007
OCLC'S Quality Control Section Never Gives Up
OCLC's Quality Control Section staff have been busy keeping WorldCat clean and tidy. For the first nine months of the current fiscal year (July 2006 through March 2007), Quality Control completed a variety of updates to the catalog.
Quality Control:
- Corrected 2,012,675 bibliographic records.
- Performed 22,853 merges resulting in the deletion of 25,625 bibliographic records.
- Added 224 new authority records.
- Updated 4,111 authority records.
- Referred 254 authority records (name and subject) to the Library of Congress for resolution.
Many of these activities resulted from the processing of 129,931 change requests from OCLC member libraries, an increase of 121 percent over the same period of the previous fiscal year.
So keep those bibliographic and authority record change requests coming!
Information about quality assurance in WorldCat, including ways to report errors and links to any necessary forms, may be found in Chapter 5 of OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards.
Statistics courtesy of Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management OCLC.
