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In response to "Mara!!!???? WTF?? -- nm" by Amy

Heh. I think I know how this happened. It's an old book. We had a unified card catalog. The first word of the title was the same as the subject

Posted by mara Apr 26 '11, 12:39

heading (gilding). Its title card would have been with the subject cards anyway, so they never did a subject heading. Then it was reconned, and still not given a subject heading.

So I asked if they could please add a subject heading field to the record, and the answer was no, people can find it doing keyword searching. Well, not if they're doing a subject search, idiots.

This is our cataloger's email : "My goal is to eliminate unnecessary edits and get new materials out faster. We�re going to be reviewing areas of the catalog record where certain types of information are already present and additional editing would not enhance the record�s findability in the catalog.

"I don�t want to set a precedent by changing this older catalog record and confusing my staff by creating a double standard for editing catalog records."

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FFS, it's just copy cataloging. I get not re-classifying, but this is more like fixing a typo. -- nm - Amy Apr 26, 12:45 1
- It took her longer to type the email than it would have to edit the record. -- nm - mara Apr 26, 12:47
Baby, you know how to turn a patron on -- nm - con_carne Apr 26, 12:42
There's no double standard. There's one standard: make it right. -- nm - Max Apr 26, 12:41 3
- (actually, the inaction of leaving it wrong is what creates the confusing double standard.) (dumbass)) -- nm - Max Apr 26, 12:52
- Max Holmes? :) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 12:43
- I agree with maxcumber. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 26, 12:43
ah, the library sciences, ever the domain of logic and sense. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 12:41

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Heh. I think I know how this happened. It's an old book. We had a unified card catalog. The first word of the title was the same as the subject

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