Authority Control & Database Maintenance
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The Authority Control and Database Maintenance section of the Cataloging Department works with people from around the University Libraries to update, enhance, and fix problems in bibliographic records. Everyone in the section communicates with people within the Department and beyond to improve access for patrons.
We participate in the Program for Coopoerative Cataloging through NACO, SACO, and BIBCO.
Melanie McGurr is Coordinator of the section. As Coordinator, Melanie communicates with individuals within OSUL and beyond on matters relating to database clean-up and Authority Control (including OSUL's Authorities vendor and OhioLINK). She creates and reviews NACO work, completes special request clean-up projects, and works on complex problem sovling. She works with all members of the section on special projects.
Ed Plunkett catalogs library materials in Western languages, including PromptCat materials. He is also involved in compiling monthly departmental statistics and quality control. Ed also completes administrative duties and special projects as assigned.
Stephanie Gilchrist is a Catalog Management Specialist She contributes and maintains the accuracy of OSCAR (adds, deletes, and updates bibliographic item and authority records) Stephanie performs problem-solving activities or special requests related to the system, performs original cataloging and complex copy cataloging of materials (including analytics). She is also a Cataloging resource for the Department and a BIBCO participant/reviewer.
Lin Zhang sees herself as a catalog doctor who is responsible for contributing to and maintaining the accuracy and integrity of OSCAR by adding, deleting and updating bibliographic, item and authority records, and OCLC databases as well as, diagnosing and solving all cataloging problems including analytics reported by OSCAR and OhioLINK participating libraries, and correcting the errors in existing records in all languages. She recatalogs existing records and creates new records by performing copy and original cataloging. Also, Lin conducts catalog management tasks, such as database cleaning by running Booleans, rapid updates, and other system functions.
Andrea Moore is the Authority Control and Catalog Management Specialist in the Authorities Section of the Cataloging Department. She resolves problems identified in the local system reports supplied by the authorities vendor which include reports of changed headings, duplicate authority records, and blind references. Andrea also verifies the form of personal name, corporate name, series, uniform title and subject entries against files of existing authority records and creates or updates national level authority records according to NACO guidelines.
