July 21, 2008
OCLC Releases Quality Control and WorldCat Maintenance Report
OCLC has released its report recapping quality control and WorldCat maintenance activities by member libraries for 2008. The report includes information detailing the addition of call numbers and subjects, tables of contents, etc., plus activity related to upgrading minimal-level records and enhancing full records for the fiscal year just concluded (July 2007 through June 2008).
Member libraries performed the following:
- Database enrichment: 157,787 records (a 21 percent increase from FY 2007)
- Minimal-level upgrades: 108,130 records (also a 21 percent increase)
- Enhance upgrades: 156,423 (16 percent increase)
For a refresher on what member libraries can do in each of these categories, take a look at the following sections of Bibliographic Formats & Standards:
- Database Enrichment: section 5.4
- Minimal-Level Upgrades: section 5.2
- The Enhance Program: section 5.5
During FY 2008, OCLC staff:
- Corrected 2,137,903 bibliographic records
- Performed 207,742 merges resulting in the deletion of 317,022 bibliographic records
- Added 165 new authority records
- Updated 395,817 authority records
- Referred 765 authority records (name and subject) to the Library of Congress for resolution
Many of the changes resulted from the processing of 182,348 change requests, an increase of 21 percent over the same period of FY 2007.
During the same time period, OCLC CIP Upgrade Unit staff:
- Upgraded 20,501 CIP records
- Added 1,006 new authority records
- Updated 857 authority records
These figures for authority records include 450 new series authority records and updates to 247 existing series authority records. This activity with series authorities continues to grow as a result of OCLC's adapting to the Library of Congress's stopping series authority work.
