8/10/99
1. Subscription Status Coding
Summary: From the list of titles supplied by Collection Managers, update field 08 in continuation order records for "1" highest priority to "3" lowest priority. Codes completed for BOS, CGA, EAS-C, UND, PHA, REF, HIS, MUS, EES, WEL. Estimated 1/2 of collection managers have not assigned coding.
Status: Current to date
2. De-Duping Serial Retrocon Records
Summary: 9,000+ suppressed full bibs with no attached records to be de-duped. Of these, 4,482 bibs consist of holdings currently in MAI or items previously in MAI and then transferred to STX.
Status: Working with Tony Maniaci and Circ. staff to move items to appropriate bibs and unsupress bib records. Will begin to work with SEL to de-dup 689 titles for SEL.
3. OhioLINK Major Microforms Project
Summary: Add item records for each title in each series. Add local notes (590) to bib records if reels contain more than one volume. Link item records to multiple bibs if reels contain more than one title.
American Periodicals Series 18th century: completed
American Periodicals Series 1800-1850: 199 titles to be done
American Periodicals Series 1850-1900: 210 titles to be done
Early English Newspapers: 933 titles to be done
Status: Working on American Periodicals Series 1800-1850
4. Serial Card Retrocon
Summary: 278 Serial titles from the card catalog with only short records on OSCAR; not overlayed by OCLC retrocon records. Will need to be manually searched on OCLC againfor copy. If none found, will need original cataloging.
Status: 25 titles per month to be searched and processed, or sent to Tech Pro for cataloging.
5. Convert Lib Has "Split" Locations
Summary: Update all current Lib Has check-in records with "Split" as location into individual Lib Has statements with 3-letter location code. 270 to be completed for BUS; 5,000 to be completed for OSUL
Status: As time permits; priority to those submitted by collection managers.
6. PKO Titles
Summary: Titles sent as Loc Controlled Gifts to be cataloged for SEL from the former Perkins Observatory library. These are photocopies of title pages. 159 titles to be cataloged.
Status: As time permits, process as Loc Controlled Gifts.
7. John A. Flory Collection
Summary: Approximately 88 serial titles to be inventoried against Flory holdings list, reviewed by Wes for retention decision, possibly cataloged and sent to STX. Titles stored in Precat.
Status: Need an inventory to be done for retention decision.
8. Other Collections
Summary: Alvin J. Reiss Collection to be cataloged; Arnold S. Johnson Collection to be cataloged for STX.
Reiss collection: 60 titles stored in room 022 to be cataloged and processed.
Johnson collection: 33 titles on hand to be cataloged and processed. Cat. Dept. continues to forward serial titles to SER as they encounter them in their backlog.
Status: Lower priority; as time permits.
9. Microform Titles
Summary: 148 titles to be cataloged for MIC.
Status: On Hold