I think you should contact the library and try to work something out with
them.  I do very little original cataloging and when I do copy cataloging
am always amazed by the number of seemingly duplicate records that exist
when there is a "main" record that has been worked on by the reputable
national agencies.  I usually try and wait until someone more
knowledgeable than I has created a record.  When it a local item then I
will go ahead and do original cataloging.  I would certainly like to know
if my contributions were wrong. If the offending library is not
cooperative, then I would notify OCLC because you are doing all of us a
favor.

Judith A. Koveleskie
Periodicals Librarian
Seton Hill University
Reeves Memorial Library
Greensburg, PA 15601
724-838-7828

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From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Elizabeth Urbanik
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:52 AM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: [SERIALST] Something of an ethics question

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."