At the very least.  It is frustrating to keep coming across
mistakes, and it is worse to think about all those people who
use the bad records without catching the mistakes.

Barbara Trumpinski-Roberts
Funk ACES Library-UIUC

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:52:28 -0600
>From: Elizabeth Urbanik <eurbanik@LIBRARY.MSSTATE.EDU>
>Subject: [SERIALST] Something of an ethics question
>To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
>
>Hello all,
>If you're happily cataloging and keep finding bad records in
OCLC, and
>all of those records have been contributed by the same
library, what do
>you do? Only notify OCLC of the errors? Do that plus send a
nice note to
>the library in question, offering help?
>
>Thanks,
>Elizabeth
>
>Elizabeth Urbanik
>Asst. Prof./Serials Cataloger
>Mitchell Memorial
>Mississippi State University
>(662) 325-3018
>
>"If you never ask the question, you never have to hear the
answer."

barbara trumpinski-roberts (smotu) 217-333-2416   kittent@uiuc.edu
Funk ACES Library-UIUC
200 LIAC  1101 S. Goodwin  Urbana, IL  61801 mc-633

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