We handle authority control for most ebook records inhouse because of quality and ownership issues.

Judith Kirk
Coordinator, Authority Control
Western Michigan University Libraries
Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5353
269-387-0688

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From: "Ted Waller" <wallert@meredith.edu>
To: "Backstage Library Works Authority Contol Listserv" <bslwac@mailman.xmission.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 4:50:04 PM
Subject: [BSLWAC] Alexander Street, Chadwyk

We just had authority work done on 3 years of bib records, and Alexander Street Press and Chadwyck are responsible for 90% of our cleanup work.  We had downloaded several collections of bib records from these two (e.g., Classical Music Library, out of copyright poetry collections) and the headings were atrocious.  This is not a problem originating from Backstage, of course.  I don't know where these publishers got their marc records, but they must be exceedingly old.

Ted Waller

Carlyle Campbell Library

Meredith College

919 760 8381

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