Cataloging Progress
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This is intended to be a collaborative place for us to add notes about incomplete (and eventually completed) specific additions to the catalog, sorted by task, and then by work. Please edit the page and join in! -- JesseW 03:19, 10 November 2007 (EST)
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Adding 505 ToC notes
- Of the 33 Lippincott's Magazine issues we have (as of 03:19, 10 November 2007 (EST)), I've added notes to 3
- Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
- Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885
- Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
- We have a 505 for one of the three volumes of Balzac's Droll Stories, but not for the other two, or the combined version, or the audiobook version. -- 13:35, 6 February 2008 (EST)
Adding LoC classes
- It would probably be a good idea to add the AP LoCCS to all the periodical issues, e.g. most of what's listed under the Various author. I'd like more conformation/encouragement before doing this, though. -- JesseW 19:30, 17 November 2007 (EST)
Dividing up "Various" author
- This is controversial I think it would be better to divide up the Various author at least by series (e.g. Various authors of Lippincott's Magazine, etc.) and, eventually, augment/replace them with the specific contributors. But this probably should wait until some coding changes have been made so we don't end up further clogging the author lists. -- JesseW 03:44, 10 November 2007 (EST)
Working through bookshelves adding subjects
These are bookshelves where at least most of the titles have subjects. Q2 (Joyce)
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Systematic Record Review
- Records for ebooks numbered from 24000 to 30819 and added in 2008 or 2009 have been reviewed (Dec. 31, 2009)
- Records for ebooks numbered from 23000 to 24000 have been reviewed (May 30, 2010)
- Records for ebooks numbered from 22000 to 23000 have been reviewed (Sept. 11, 2010)
- Records for ebooks numbered from 21000 to 22000 have been reviewed (Nov. 24, 2010)
- Records for ebooks numbered from 20000 to 21000 have been reviewed (Feb. 4, 2011)
- Records for ebooks numbered from 19000 to 20000 have been reviewed (April 5, 2011)
- Records for ebooks numbered from 17000 to 19000 have been reviewed (Aug. 17, 2011)
- Records for ebooks numbered from 16000 to 17000 have been reviewed (Oct. 4, 2011)
- Records for ebooks numbered from 15000 to 16000 have been reviewed (Dec. 5, 2011)
- Records for ebooks numbered from 14000 to 15000 have been reviewed (Jan. 30, 2012)
Other possible tasks
- Splitting/merging authors/verifying author attributions
- "eg., yesterday there came in a batch of "R.M. Ballantyne" which the catalog did not attribute to "Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894" because of the missing space between R. and M.
You could peruse the "Browse by Author" pages and check on all authors with suspect similar names. Make sure they are different persons and check the book attributions agains LoC, Wikipedia etc." (Marcello, November 8, 2007 3:56:56 AM PST )
- "eg., yesterday there came in a batch of "R.M. Ballantyne" which the catalog did not attribute to "Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894" because of the missing space between R. and M.
- Adding LoC subject classifications
- Some catalogers don't like these, but most do consider them valuable
- Two (external) lists of LoC classes are: http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/LCSO0001.htm and http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
- You can see a list of all the LoC classes currently defined at PG by going to Advanced search and clicking drop down menu for LOCC.
- Be careful about PZ's from LC-- PZ1-4 were used in the past to group popular fiction in English (regardless of original language) outside the normal order. This is no longer common usage, and the Library of Congress has stopped using PZ1-4 (but has not updated existing call numbers to be in line with current practice), so treat PZ call numbers from LC with caution, and if it doesn't seem right to you, check in WorldCat for a better alternative.
- Note that Canadian literature should most likely be PS instead of PR.
- Can add more than one LoCC if the work usefully fits into more than one category.
- In case of very broad classes (like PR, PT, PZ), the next step would be using numbers after the two characters, which is already done with the F classes. If you create such a numbered class, please look at the way the LoC distributes the numbers (they use number ranges) and choose the first value. Example: the LoC has F2201-F2300 for general history of South America, so we have F2201 for this topic.
- Adding Table of Contents notes for story collections
- "Another thing that I think is pretty uncontroversial (though I might be wrong) is to add 505 contents notes for things like collections of stories or essays. Put all the components in one 505 note, not each component in a separate one. Tastes differ on the exact format. You can see what I do in this record: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20953
I think Marcello favors the style here: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2327" (Joyce, November 8, 2007 6:00:19 AM PST ) - "This improves access because 505's are checked in (advanced) title searches, so if someone is looking for a particular short story but doesn't know the name of the collection, they'll be able to find it by title if it's in a contents note. I don't worry about the non-filing characters field in 505's, but I add MARC indicators 0_ (zero blank). You can read about 505's here (the b-with-a-slash symbol indicates a blank): http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/5xx/505.shtm" (Joyce, November 8, 2007 6:00:19 AM PST )
- "Another thing that I think is pretty uncontroversial (though I might be wrong) is to add 505 contents notes for things like collections of stories or essays. Put all the components in one 505 note, not each component in a separate one. Tastes differ on the exact format. You can see what I do in this record: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20953
- Add information from REPosted books to the catalog
- Check the archives of the posted list; you have to sign up with the list first, but you can disable having messages sent, so it won't fill up your mailbox.
- Careful check of catalog record details for Librivox audiobooks.
- I think you can select these by choosing category "Audio Book, human-read" and perhaps limiting to items with "librivox" in their full-text.
- Get periodicals and multi-volume sets to sort in order.
- See Punch for instance. One way to work on it (from Marcello)-- Use the "Batch-Edit Titles" link on the "Catalog Admin" page. Enter a regular expression (RegExp) like this: ^Punch,.*1920 (that will let you tackle a year at a time). Things that would need fixing to get Punch sorted in order:
- Change date format from "April 1, 1914" to "1914-04-01".
- Regularize spelling of "Vol."
- Regularize on 3-digit volume numbers (note that some volume numbers may need correction).
- Once Punch is sorting in order, we might also add editor information for issues that don't have it. Note that to avoid interfering with the chronological sort, editors will need to have "No-Heading" status.
- See Punch for instance. One way to work on it (from Marcello)-- Use the "Batch-Edit Titles" link on the "Catalog Admin" page. Enter a regular expression (RegExp) like this: ^Punch,.*1920 (that will let you tackle a year at a time). Things that would need fixing to get Punch sorted in order: