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I Really Love It When:
Some bozo decides to insert a hyphen into the title field which is not actually printed on the title page. Because we do not accept OCLC records into our catalog as-is unless they are identical to the book in hand (actually, a little fudging is allowed in the way the publisher name or location is abbreviated or punctuated, but not in the title), this means that a single character spoils the record for us and I have to stick it on the Problem New Books shelf, where it becomes Just Another Damn Thing for the real cataloger to deal with.
In some cases the errors themselves - no matter how annoying they may be to me, as a copy cataloger - are fairly understandable. In the hyphen case above, someone decided to spell "bestselling" as "best-selling". Reasonable enough, I suppose. Their eyes probably filled it in when they were entering the data and there wasn't sufficient double-checking in place to catch it. But I don't see how it's possible to spell what is clearly "hijacking" as "high-jacking" when it's right there in front of you on the bloody title page.
back to the grind.
Some bozo decides to insert a hyphen into the title field which is not actually printed on the title page. Because we do not accept OCLC records into our catalog as-is unless they are identical to the book in hand (actually, a little fudging is allowed in the way the publisher name or location is abbreviated or punctuated, but not in the title), this means that a single character spoils the record for us and I have to stick it on the Problem New Books shelf, where it becomes Just Another Damn Thing for the real cataloger to deal with.
In some cases the errors themselves - no matter how annoying they may be to me, as a copy cataloger - are fairly understandable. In the hyphen case above, someone decided to spell "bestselling" as "best-selling". Reasonable enough, I suppose. Their eyes probably filled it in when they were entering the data and there wasn't sufficient double-checking in place to catch it. But I don't see how it's possible to spell what is clearly "hijacking" as "high-jacking" when it's right there in front of you on the bloody title page.
back to the grind.
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Date: Oct. 3rd, 2005 08:04 pm (UTC)From:let me count the ways....
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Date: Oct. 3rd, 2005 08:05 pm (UTC)From:in THIS part of Space/Time:
numbers STAY.
letters STAY!
there is none of this 'ripples of chaos - washing through and rearranging things" shiite.
and the locals STILL muck stuff up?
amatuers.*
*mutters the poor speller.